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: Cara Black ’13

Cara Black ’13

Cara Black, of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, is president of the student body at Bard. Cara participates in the Bard Summer Research Institute, where she has spent two summers doing ophthalmology research with a Bard alumnus. She plans to teach biology in a low-income school district after graduation, before applying to medical school.
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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."

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.”