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HSTAT students visit women’s college
By Meghan Brown

Ms. Boulay and eight students went on a college trip to Columbia’s sister college, Barnard, a woman’s college where they learned about the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) and got an inside look at the college.
            The eight girls took the hour-long train ride to Morning Side Heights, south of Harlem. The students got to participate in an information session where they learned about HEOP, the Higher Education Opportunity Program. To qualify, students’ annual family income must be below a certain number and they must have a maximum of 620 on their SAT reading section.
            The girls got to take a tour of the school and also take part in a question and answer session with a student panel.
            The title “woman’s college” often repels prospective students. The students said that the idea of being in a school completely filled of women is different from their previous experiences in school.
             “I didn’t really feel like a woman’s college was where I wanted to be until I got here,” said Faiqa Amreen, a senior who toured Barnard, “and I saw it and I was like, ‘I can live here and I can fit in here. I know that guys will still be around but they won’t be taking me away from what I want to do with my life.’”
             “There are less distractions,” Krystal Caban, a student, added.

There are also academic and financial benefits of attending Barnard.
             “The advantage,” Ms. Boulay stated, “is that you have half of the competition applying to the school, so you have an excellent college with a great reputation that’s going to offer you all of the things that any school of that caliber would, but you’re competing with half of the people”
            All of the students who accompanied Ms. Boulay on the trip agreed that actually seeing the school was very different from just looking at the website.
             “Its not just quiet buildings; there’s a lot more going on here,” said Amreen, “and that’s kind of what a school is like on a website or in a catalogue, you look at the numbers and the words and if I looked at Barnard online I would probably hate it but seeing it in action, I love it.”
             “I don’t think that you really get a feel of the school until you really see it…You’re going to be spending 4 years at this place so you want to pick a place where you feel comfortable,” advised Caban.