<p>I'd like to get a student's opinion on engineering at Duke. (If there's a better place for this, please let me know.)</p>
<p>Im not in engineering but I have a lot of friends who are. I can try to answer some questions if you want</p>
<p>@rusties: Do you know any? Are any recent alumni of your secondary school? I initially offer these options because Duke may have mandatory and/or statutory “student privacy” concerns with providing contact information.</p>
<p>@TopTier - Unfortunately I have no connections to any of the universities I’m applying to, so I’ve been doing my best to thoroughly research each school via the web.</p>
<p>Okay, call Undergraduate Admissions, explain to them that you’d like to have a conversation with a Pratt junior (at Duke long enough to be knowledgable) or two, and why (this is important). They will want to help, but (as I mentioned in #2) there could be legal and/or privacy constraints.</p>
<p>@TopTier Is my reason sufficient enough? I’d like to go beyond what the engineering site has to offer.</p>
<p>@rustles: Undergraduate Admissions, subject to laws and polices, will want to help. They understand that it’s smart to want to learn from, to ask questions of, and to discuss with a peer. </p>
<p>In the recent past, there was a method by which Duke admissions paired up a prospective student with a very recent alumnus to answer any questions and provide a student perspective on things. Not sure if that practice has been discontinued…I participated in it only one year, I think. I’m not a current student, but graduated from Pratt and would be happy to answer any questions.</p>
<p>Thank you for offering @bluedog. </p>
<p>@bluedog - Thank you!</p>
<p>@rustles: no problem, do you have specific questions? My “opinion on engineering at Duke” is almost universally positive, but am happy to provide my thoughts on a variety of topics to give you some context “beyond the website.”</p>
<p>PM’ed you so that it wouldn’t bump this board and prevent new ones from being seen.</p>