Editing Barnard College (section)

=== Admissions ===
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|+Enrolled first-year student statistics
|-
!&nbsp;
!2022<ref name="Barnard College">{{cite web |title=Barnard College Admits 1,084 To the Class of 2025 |url=https://barnard.edu/news/barnard-college-admits-1084-class-2025 |access-date=March 30, 2020 |publisher=Barnard College |language=en |archive-date=April 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401195555/https://barnard.edu/news/barnard-college-admits-1084-class-2025 |url-status=live}}</ref>
!2021<ref name="Barnard College" />
!2020<ref name="Barnard College" />
!2019<ref name="CDS-C">{{cite web |title=Barnard College Common Data Set 2019–2020, Part C |url=https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/CDS_2019-2020_completed.pdf |access-date=April 29, 2020 |publisher=Barnard College |archive-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001134326/https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/CDS_2019-2020_completed.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
!2018<ref>{{cite web |title=Barnard College Common Data Set 2018–2019, Part C |url=https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/2018-2019%20Common%20Data%20Set_v2.pdf |access-date=April 29, 2020 |publisher=Barnard College |archive-date=January 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200108111351/https://barnard.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/2018-2019%20Common%20Data%20Set_v2.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|'''Applicants'''
|12,009
|10,395
|9,411
|9,320
|7,897
|-
|'''Admits'''
|NA
|1,084
|1,022
|1,097
|1,099
|-
|'''Admit rate'''
|6%
|10%
|10.8%
|11.8%
|13.9%
|-
|'''Enrolled'''
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|632
|605
|-
|'''SAT mid-50% range'''
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|1360–1500
|1330–1500
|-
|''' ACT mid-50% range'''
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|31–34
|30–33
|}

Admissions to Barnard are considered "most selective" by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/barnard-college-2708 |title=Barnard College – Profile, Rankings and Data |access-date=November 12, 2019 |work=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919043538/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/items/2708 |archive-date=September 19, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> It is the most selective women's college in the nation;<ref name="Alix Pianin2">{{cite press release |url=https://barnard.edu/news/nations-top-womens-college-admits-most-selective-class-127-year-history |title=Nation's Top Women's College Admits Most Selective Class in 127 Year History |date=March 23, 2017 |publisher=Barnard College |access-date=December 6, 2017 |archive-date=December 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207013336/https://barnard.edu/news/nations-top-womens-college-admits-most-selective-class-127-year-history |url-status=unfit}}</ref> in 2017, Barnard had the lowest acceptance rate of the five [[Seven Sisters (colleges)|Seven Sisters]] that remain single-sex in admissions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/items/2708 |title=Rankingsandreviews.com |publisher=Colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com |access-date=February 20, 2011 |archive-date=September 19, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919043538/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/items/2708 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The class of 2026's admission rate was 8% of the 12,009 applicants, the lowest acceptance rate in the institution's history.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sentner |first=Irie |title=Barnard Accepts Record-Low 8 Percent of Applicants to Its Most Diverse Class Ever – Columbia Spectator |url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2022/03/30/barnard-accepts-record-low-8-percent-of-applicants-to-its-most-diverse-class-ever/ |access-date=March 31, 2022 |website=Columbia Daily Spectator |archive-date=April 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220402110956/https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2022/03/30/barnard-accepts-record-low-8-percent-of-applicants-to-its-most-diverse-class-ever/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The median SAT composite score of enrolled students was 1440, with median subscores of 720 in Math and 715 in Evidence-Based Reading and Writing.<ref name=CDS-C/> The median ACT Composite score was 33.<ref name=CDS-C/>

In 2015, Barnard announced that it would admit transgender women who "consistently live and identify as women, regardless of the gender assigned to them at birth" and would continue to support and enroll those students who transitioned to male after they had already been admitted.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/2015/06/04/pf/college/barnard-college-transgender-admissions/index.html |title=Barnard College Will Now Accept Transgender Women |date=June 4, 2015 |work=CNN |access-date=August 2, 2020 |archive-date=September 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922124125/https://money.cnn.com/2015/06/04/pf/college/barnard-college-transgender-admissions/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

The college practices [[need-blind admission]] for domestic first-year applicants.<ref>{{cite web |title=Barnard Fin Aid |url=http://barnard.edu/admissions/paying |publisher=Barnard College |access-date=May 3, 2023 |archive-date=October 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004100145/http://barnard.edu/admissions/paying |url-status=dead}}</ref>