<p>Went up 1, if anyone cares. I don't care much, but I am curious to see what others think. This is the first time we haven't fallen in a while, if I remember right. I remember we were 3 a couple years ago.</p>
<p>It hasn’t been 3 for at least 5 years if not more. I remember the year before I started it was 5, then 8, then 10 for the past two years IIRC, now it’s 9. It all seems just pointless in the end because I have no idea what the differences are.</p>
<p>Same. They don’t seem tangible.</p>
<p>It’s still the 3rd best non-Ivy after MIT/Stanford in my books; nothing to complain about lol.</p>
<p>Nah, I’d say it’s the 4th best after MIT, Stanford, and Caltech</p>
<p>Who really cares. It’s a pretty sweet school.</p>
<p>Yeah guys, we go to a great school and that’s all that it really matters. There are like 10 page threads in the Penn and Columbia discussing the merits of their USNWR ranking. Let’s not be like them and discuss this pointless matter ok?:)</p>
<p>wow was that pretentious…</p>
<p>If you think Penn and Columbia have long threads regarding their respective rankings, check out the Stanford fans’ posts. At least they had the grace to move their discussion to a forum other than the Stanford forum.</p>
<p>Rankings are arbitrary but I think Duke is a great school</p>
<p>Duke isn’t really competing against MIT/Caltech (maybe Stanford) for students.
MIT/Caltech pretty much engineering kids (a bit more broad with MIT).
Stanford are west coast kids.</p>
<p>^ that is just so false. Stanford is for west coast kids? And fyi, I got into MIT but went to Duke instead</p>
<p>It’s not completely false. Pratt has never really billed itself as any sort of rival to MIT/Caltech and other engineering powerhouses. Rather, the school tends to play to its strengths as a small, specialized, and highly focused engineering school competing with the likes of Rice, Hopkins, WashU, etc.</p>
<p>Deter, I would guess that you are not interested in engineering (unless it is biomedical engineering); otherwise, the decision to attend Duke over MIT was a mistake–engineering at Duke is NOT among the top programs in the country, except for biomedical engineering. Serious engineering students (as oppose to “liberal arts” engineering students) should look elsewhere (again, except for biomedical engineering).</p>
<p>That’s a pretty big except if you ask me.</p>
<p>Yes, biomedical engineering at Duke is first rate at the undergraduate level–only Hopkins definitely has a better program–so if that is your area of interest, it is a big exception to the rule that Duke’s engineering is not all that impressive.</p>
<p>hoya, yes you’re right i’m not in engineering, but even if i were i wouldn’t have considered it a mistake to go to duke. i consider things beyond rankings, buddy. otherwise, i would have gone to mit no matter what.</p>
<p>Deter: “And fyi, I got into MIT but went to Duke instead”</p>
<p>Just the point I made in my other posting–why the need?</p>
<p>He probably chose Duke because he didn’t want to die under the MIT workload. Hoyasaxa, where did you transfer to btw?</p>