<p>Does anyone know whether or not it is harder to get into Duke Engineering as opposed to trinity school of arts/science? in november the only reason i applied to engineering instead of trinity was cause i didn't wanna right the essay for trinity and i already had a good "engineering essay"...but now im starting to wonder whether that was a good move or a bad move...</p>
<p>What the admissions office tells kids is that on average, the two schools are about equally difficult to get into, but that for any specific kid -- say, one with two B's in English vs. one with two B's in math -- one school or the other might be harder/easier.</p>
<p>well, the engineering applicant pool is a much smaller pool and is much more self selective. So although the actual rate of acceptance in higher in the engineering school (30 something percent), the average stats are higher in the engineering school.</p>
<p>If you were able to show interest in engineering in your essay.. you should get into Pratt, assuming that your stats are competitive. </p>
<p>If you don't want to major in Engineering, switch into Trinity as soon as you get into Duke or try it for a semester.. you may be pleasantly surprised!</p>
<p>Actually, applying for engineering this year may be an advantage to you, even if it is a more selective pool. When I visited last year, they spoke about how they were expanding the engineering program and accepting more kids into it--gave my dad the impression that they way into Duke this year would be through engineering.</p>
<p>I think 800 less kids applied to Pratt this year than last year. This year it should be easier to get in and the acceptance rate will probably be around 40-50%.</p>
<p>Pratt's acceptance rate last year was around 22% for RD which is higher than Trinity's (18%) but what really confuses me is the SAT middle 50% ranges, which are much higher for Pratt
I think Duke might have messed those up when they posted them b/c they are higher than MIT's range
<a href="http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2010profile.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2010profile.asp</a></p>
<p>No, I'd say those SAT ranges look pretty accurate. For CR/writing, the lower numbers in Pratt's ranges are only 10 points higher than those for Trinity, while the higher numbers are the same. The higher math scores make sense because, well, it's engineering.
As for being higher than MIT's range, middle 50% for MIT 2006 admits were 670-770 CR, 730-800 M. So there's actually not a huge difference - 20ish points. But then, MIT is super mathy/sciencey, so I guess being a mathcamp, USAMO, Intel ISEF semifinalist, science journal-published, cancer-curing applicant kind of offsets the importance of SAT scores.</p>
<p>Also we have to remember that MIT has three times more students per class than Pratt.. this is also why Caltech has a higher SAT score range than MIT.</p>
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the only reason i applied to engineering instead of trinity was cause i didn't wanna right the essay for trinity and i already had a good "engineering essay"...
Grrrr.....</p>