<p>Which one would your choose? If you are interested in doing double major in bio-engineering and economics?</p>
<p>I want to go to school that is not just academics all the time. They need to be strong but I want over all experience for 4 years...I know I will probably do post-graduation. Not medicine though.</p>
<p>Well if this is the predicament you are in, congratulations. Duke and Yale were extremely competitive this year, along with UCSD and USC. Also, good job on surviving the entire UCSD acceptance letter fiasco (lol that was hilarious).</p>
<p>As a resident of CT who lives right outside of New Haven, I would have to say Yale is an amazing place. The residential college system is really spectacular and all of my friends who attend love it. I had the privilege of sitting in on a class last fall, and it truly was a great experience. With that being said, New Haven is no picnic. It is a rough area, and the text messages of kids being jumped on campus runs long on my Yalie cousins phone. Also, the fact that there is no definite center of campus serves as a bit of a deterrent for some.</p>
<p>Duke is also a great choice, and in fact seems like it would be a better fit for you judged by the brief information you said. In fact, it is where I am planning to attend this fall (got rejected by Yale). The school is more of the traditional college feel, with great academics, sports, and party life. It is warm, where as New Haven is cold, and kids seem to enjoy themselves a little more. I loved it down there during accepted students, so I may be a little bias, but I would choose Duke over the Cal Public School System. Duke is a feeder for Wall Street, is ranked 13th in the World (8th in Nation), and is just a great overall college experience. </p>
<p>If cost is going to be the biggest factor and you are going with the Cal system, I would choose San Diego. I don’t know much about it, but it sounds more intellectual from what I have read. </p>
<p>If you are into those majors specifically, though, definately go to Duke. Biomed is #1 in the nation (changing with Hopkins and Stanford every year), and Economics is 5th. Yale doesn’t have an engineering option, and economics is like 7th or 8th. For those majors specifically, go to Duke.</p>
<p>Yet if I had your option, to be honest I would choose Yale, followed closely by Duke. However, if warmth and sports are your thing and you are set on those majors, go with Duke. They are both incredible schools, with Yale being tier 1 (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford) and Duke being a close tier 2 (Columbia, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn, Chicago). It is totally up to you, but again I’d be a Bulldog or a Blue Devil. Good luck!</p>
<p>Duke or Yale no doubt.</p>
<p>Yale. I would not pass that up. I would suspect that the cross admit list heavily favors Yale with all of these schools. I think it is like 92% to 8% vs Duke.</p>
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<p>This is completely wrong. Duke’s Economics department is ranked #21 by US News, and Yale’s is ranked 7th. And Yale DOES have an engineering option; biomedical engineering happens to be Yale’s strongest (though not nearly as strong as Duke’s). Please check your sources before giving incredibly false information: [Search</a> - Economics - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/eco/search]Search”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/grad/eco/search)</p>
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I strongly second this.</p>
<p>Duke seems like a better fit for you if you want a school that is not academics all the time. You would sacrifice a bit on prestige for giving up on Yale, but you would gain a better quality of life for 4 years at Duke and the job opportunities are similar.</p>
<p>Go to Yale. Duke and Yale really aren’t on the same tier, Yale’s up there with Harvard, Princeton, Stanford etc. Duke is a notch below with Northwestern, Rice, Brown, etc.</p>
<p>^ IF Yale doesn’t have a huge $ premium over Duke.</p>
<p>Duke is a tier 1 school and is very great, westsidewolf1989.</p>
<p>Deep down inside, I know you have chosen the school you want but haven’t been fully honest with yourself. Personally, I’d choose USC.</p>
<p>Please, choose wisely.</p>
<p>Yale would probably offer you the best oppertunity for this double major situation. My choice also came down to Duke and Yale with Yale winning.</p>
<p>Yale’s biomedical engineering may be its strongest engineering major but Yale is not found on the following NRC rankings.</p>
<p>[NRC</a> Rankings in Each of 41 Areas](<a href=“http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html]NRC”>http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~jnewton/nrc_rankings/nrc41.html)</p>
<p>Regardless, Yale is far supreme to Duke in terms of economics, as seen in the above link.</p>
<p>^^ The NRC ranking is 16 years old…before Yale’s $1 billion commitment to expand the sciences and engineering.</p>
<p>Yeah you want to know how many professors are still at many of these schools after 16 years? My guess is MANY.</p>
<p>In a field like Economics, no one really cares how top ranked the program itself is. Most of the top school have awesome economics programs and unless you want to get a PhD in the field, the difference between Duke Econ and Yale Econ will be irrelevant to you.</p>
<p>It sounds like you want a more laid-back college experience with still good job opportunities available. Duke and USC are awesome in this regard. They both have INCREDIBLE alumni networks.</p>
<p>A $1 billion dollar commitment does not at all translate into $1 billion dollar spending. Look at the economy. The government has committed to infuse over a trillion bucks in the country’s economy but there has been little impact yet.</p>
<p>I would pick Yale without hesitation. It’s got superb professors, amazing programs and great network connections. You can’t get much better than that. Go to Yale!!!</p>
<p>But with all of the schools you mentioned you’re going to have to work extremely hard and be dedicated to academics, so… I’ll take your seat if you don’t want it (just kidding lol).</p>
<p>@rd31</p>
<p>the rankings were for the GRADUATE level, not the undergraduate. Economics at Duke UNDERGRADUATE is 5th (remember student mentioning it on campus when I was there last week). And if Economics is what you are after, or business as a whole, Duke’s #1 hirer is Goldman Sachs, again the greatest investment banking firm in the world. I don’t know who Yale’s biggest hirer is.</p>
<p>And I don’t want to degredate Yale, for to be honest I would have gone there had I got in. Just one aside about economics at Yale, when I sat in on a math class and talked with their math department office, they mentioned that because the math major is so challenging, many kids drop to economics. At Duke, economics is taken so seriously that a significant portion drops out after the first two courses, which are supposedly killers. Just a thought.</p>
<p>What about money? Are they all the same?</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for your opinions…It is hard. As for money - Yale & Duke are about the same - 50K+. For both USC and UCSD, I have a full ride into their engineering programs. But I am torn between the top name that can really help me in my future and enormous cost vs. very good programs that are free.</p>