<p>I got into duke engineering. I really want to go here for the experience, environment, etc. However, my parents want me to go to Cornell for the better overall engineering program. I'm telling them that Duke has a great biomed program. But they are telling me that I won't get a job doing biomed. So, how hard is it to double major say biomed/mech. engineering at Duke? Thanks!</p>
<p>BME/ME is an established double major - still only 34 credits (just like the rest of the engineering degrees and doubles). The BME Undergraduate Program Handbook (at <a href="http://www.bme.duke.edu/downloads/undergrad_handbook.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.bme.duke.edu/downloads/undergrad_handbook.pdf</a>) does a really nice job of going through the requirements, and BME/ME is on p. 16. I do not think there are changes in the work for C/o 2010.</p>
<p>As to the question of how hard is it - certainly pursuing a double degree at Pratt will be academically challenging, but by no means impossible, and definitely worth it. As to the question of jobs - not sure what kind of placement stats and such you are getting but...erm...we do quite nicely, thank you, for all of our departments :)</p>
<p>Xiaotian,</p>
<p>If your parents are anything like the people in my community, Asian people have a long history of valuing Cornell very highly because some very prestigious, Asian people went there in the 1940s. While Cornell is a great school, many Chinese people in particular - and I say this as one - tend to value it for reasons that are obsolete at best.</p>
<p>Chinese people in general are also slow to adapt to changing realities. Duke has risen in quality and reputation considerably over the past few years; many Asian communities in my part of the country (Northern California) have been very slow to recognize this.</p>