Admission

Admission
The annual first-year student picnic.

First-Year Experience in Berlin

Learn more about spending one or both semesters of your first year at Bard's newest global campus at ECLA of Bard in Berlin!

Profiles

Student: Julia DeFabo ’14

Julia DeFabo ’14

Julia studies anthropology, French, and Africana studies at Bard. Her interest in Western representations of African art has brought her a long way from her hometown near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—as a Bard student she’s interned at an Atlanta museum and will spend a semester in Senegal studying the nation’s language and culture.
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Accepted Students

A Letter from the President

"Please accept my congratulations on your acceptance to Bard College," writes Bard president Leon Botstein. "I want to welcome you into a college community that cherishes the life of the mind but also seeks to link the spirit of inquiry to public service and engagement with life in society."
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Samuel Pratt '14: Why I Chose Bard

Samuel Pratt '14 chose Bard because the idea of a double major really appealed to him. As a student of philosophy and dance, he sees how the two areas illuminate each other. “What I knew was that any academic pursuit was going to be integral to my growth and evolution as an artist.”