<p>Hello!</p>
<p>My dream is to focus heavily on creating inventive robots in college.</p>
<p>Which one should I go for? Columbia SEAS or Duke Pratt? </p>
<p>I wonder which one I should count on more... time and effort taken(or wasted) in Core curriculum in SEAS or all the research and internship opportunites in NYC. </p>
<p>Which one would help me achieve my dream better?</p>
<p>Duke! </p>
<p><a href="http://www.ece.duke.edu/news/?id=36%5B/url%5D">http://www.ece.duke.edu/news/?id=36</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ece.duke.edu/news/?id=457%5B/url%5D">http://www.ece.duke.edu/news/?id=457</a></p>
<p>according to my physics teacher pratt is quite overrated; it supposedly has a high ranking b/c of funding; i dont know much about SEAS, but i imagine its better tahn duke...i like duke's campus though, if thats anythign you're considering</p>
<p>pratt has been on the leading edge in almost every single engineering field. Maybe your physics teacher went to UNC.</p>
<p>see if you can do some research on dukes robotics team</p>
<p>I heard its very good - winning several robotics competitions</p>
<p>The guy who created the robotic beer launching fridge was a Duke Pratt student</p>
<p>possibly one of the best inventions ever...</p>
<p>Doesn't Duke have that smart house or something? I heard about it in an info session over 6 months ago, so my memory is really hazy, but it could be of interest to you. Look into it. Duke has distributional requirements too where you have to take humanities classes, so the real difference between it and Columbia will be how many required classes you have to take at each and how much freedom you want in choosing your classes.</p>
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<p>You'll surely realise that dream at Duke. Whether or not you'll be able to do it in Columbia, I have no clue.</p>
<p>okay - i'm part of the smarthome and there's no real robotics involved here so far, but if your interested (smarthome.duke.edu)...you might be able to propose that idea!</p>
<p>however smarthome and robotics do get their own lab which they share and so I see the robotics guys in there every now and then and they seem like a good group of nice guys</p>
<p>that being said I don't know much about them, so I what I would recommend you do would be to send an e-mail to one of the Robotics officers (robotics.pratt.duke.edu) and may be tell them about your interests or your dream and I'm sure they'd be willing to help you out. Just tell them your a pre-frosh considering duke and don't be intimidated and may be they could help you tell about the opportunities at duke for robotics. I'm sure they'd be happy to "recruit" you :)</p>
<p>there's also people who help cmu with the darpa grand challenge although i'm not sure what's going on now</p>
<p>i also have a group of friends who are playing around with the idea of making "smart" cars. pm if you're interested - i can hook you up with the leader who would be more than happy to talk to you</p>
<p>best of luck</p>
<p>PS: by the way, make sure you post this also in the columbia message board. I have no idea how columbia compares to Duke in robotics - i'm just offering what I know about Duke. I'm sure somebody there can point to columbia's advantages as well</p>