<p>I've got a good one for you. At my interview the man who interviewed me said not to go to Duke for biomedical Engineering! He said places like Michigan etc.are much better.</p>
<p>I guess that will make your decision easier should you get into Duke. Don't go! That would be foolish, not to listen to this kind stranger. Clearly you are now indebted to his wisdom. After all, he saved you from going to an inferior program!</p>
<p>Yes, Duke biomedical engineering is very bad. What is its ranking? Like #2? Horrible. And with all the new state-of-the-art buildings being constructed and the administration's great dedication to building up Pratt engineering it's just going down... Michigan, Podunk State, they all have much better programs!</p>
<p>The interviewer was probably a 50 year old Trinity grad who didn't know Duke had an Engineering school.</p>
<p>Well... Pratt has existed since 1939... so the grad would have to be older than Duke itself not to know about it...
But anyways, this "psatmadness" is probably just trying to get under our collective skin. But what else is new. We're always plagued by these haters.
Don't hate us because we're beautiful!</p>
<p>Crap crap crap.
I want/will be doing biomed at Duke next year.
My future is doomed.
Oh I think my eyes just blinded themselves.</p>
<p>Actually, ay_carabma "Pratt" has existed since 1999, it was the College of Engineering before that. When he told his interviewer he was applying to Pratt, he probably thought "Pratt School of Design?"</p>
<p>Fine, you got me on a technicality. But note the OP said that his interviewer told him not to go to DUKE for biomedical engineering. Though the scenario that you suggest is still possible hahaha</p>
<p>Duke's Biomed is probably one of its best departments! ranked #2 nationally behind only johns hopkins.</p>
<p>if you want to do biomed, DUKE IS THE PLACE!!</p>
<p>yay! go Duke BME!</p>
<p>Glad to hear that. I thought that was the case and was really surprised when he said that. It was a very "different" interview. He also went on and on about how Duke does geographic admits and showed how few students are admitted to Duke from our area (Ohio etc.).</p>
<p>..umm well geographic admits may be true.. i dont know</p>
<p>What about CA?
Does DUKE admit a lot of people in CA?</p>
<p>Michigan?
Thats like a second-rate Berkeley.</p>
<p>Duke BME is second in the nation. Pratt as an undergraduate engineering school isn't highly ranked at all, and yeah, there are a lot of engineering programs many being cheaper than Pratt/Duke that are better. Oh well. Duke's still an amazing place.</p>
<p>And Duke admits bunches of people from CA. I'd say that the most accepted students come from NC & the south, then the northeast, and then CA. it's probably in the top five states of Duke's accepted students... there's the stats somewhere on the admissions webpage, i remember.</p>
<p>The perennial top two states are NC and NY. Then it's usually Florida, New Jersey, Texas, California. Duke also takes a lot of students from the DC area so some years Maryland and Virginia are in the top six.</p>
<p>bluestar-although duke takes a lot of kids from CA, you have to remember CA does have 20% of the US population so anything besides no. 1 or 2 does mean they admit proportionally less from CA.</p>
<p>makes sence, but i am amazed at how many people would go 3000miles away for college...</p>
<p>you're right...
but i'm at duke, and it seems that everyone i meet is either from NY, NC, or CA. there's a big CA student population here.</p>
<p>oh? at duke right now? thats cool. I was accepted ED... there are quite a few people on the list for each of the 3 states you mentioned as the highest quantities for duke.... so those 3 hold up for the largest numbers for the class of 2009 so far.</p>