<p>Hey-I made a thread a while ago and posted my (non-duke) email addy for anyone who had questions 'bout Duke, though I think it died since I made the title sound like a random question and not an answer source. I go to Duke and I can answer any questions y'all have EXCEPT regarding admissions (just wait it out-I don't know who will and won't get in). If you've got questions about student life, classes, dorms, social life, JJ Redick, etc...shoot me an email at <a href="mailto:localsexsymbol@yahoo.com">localsexsymbol@yahoo.com</a><a href="I'm%20still%20amazed%20that%20the%20address%20wasn't%20taken">/email</a> If I'm not too flooded (and last time, I wasn't), I'll give you the best answer I can. I'm a freshman guy majoring in Mechanical Engineering, and involved a wide array of different activities around campus.</p>
<p>I don't have a lot of time to be checking this forum, so if you send me an email or feel like bumping this, give this thread a bump so it stays alive, provided that it's useful. I have a feeling the last one croaked pretty quick, though I never actually read it after posting it.</p>
<p>I really want to do business. Is Duke's ECONOMICS program good for that? I know Duke has like Certification program too for business as well.
I got accepted to STERN at NYU, but I have to go to GSP for the first two years. And, I dont know if Cornell's Hotel School compares in that field of commerce. Then, there is always U-Florida's business program.
I dunno what to do.</p>
<p>Ok, well, the thing is, it's hard to help if all you say is you "want to do business." For some disciplines, like marketing or accounting, you might be better off in a business school, because there are some more traditional firms that prefer recruiting students that are already trained in their field. For others, like finance or management, recruitment focuses on elite schools in general, so you'd be better off at Duke.</p>
<p>Ultimately I'd say you should be deciding between Duke, Stern, and Cornell (although I'd look at Cornell in general rather than focusing in on their small business program). Don't get hung up on a school not having an undergraduate business program. It's not the end be all of success in the business world, especially since you'll most likely need to get an MBA anyways.</p>
<p>I'm from France and would definitly love to go to Duke if I get in. But I 've heard that there were alot of cliques...do internationals mix with others or are they mostly apart? cause that would suck...</p>
<p>DO you go get accepted to Duke based on your major? Or do you have to get into the school first and then they look at your major. I applied as an ECON. So is it easier or harder, or just the same as everyone else?
And banana, im most likely gonna do FInance, so I guess Duke would fit the profile.</p>
<p>One of my best friends is in ECE and he loves it but it is an insane amount of work. The ECE department just got a grant so they get to use cool stuff like free tablet PCs for their classes use but the whole curriculum is being redone so upcoming classes are sort of like guinea pigs. ECE ill be an intense four year but you will come out of college with a degree that really means something and has a lot of knowledge behind it. plus the ECE faculty are very accessible and willing to help out students in the department.</p>
<p>Holy damn...I meant email me as in not in this thread (since I rarely remember to check the forum)...but since I'm here, here goes.</p>
<p>International students tend to fit in just fine if they don't isolate themselves. I actually have a few friends who are from France specifically. Be outgoing, speak english and you'll be fine. Also, don't tell people you're french until you've gotten to know them. (j/k)</p>
<p>ECE: It's hard, and it's good. That's pretty much all I can tell you about it-I don't know a whole lot about it and I've only experienced freshman engineering, in which all the wee engineers have to learn to use MATLAB and take essentially the same classes. </p>
<p>Business: I've got no idea. I'm an engineer. I build things and pray nobody makes small talk about the stock market. (Note to self: take an ECON course or two) Duke does have the Fuqua School of Business, though IDK if that's a grad school or a regular school or what. As far as econ goes, I haven't taken any econ courses so I wouldn't know.</p>
<p>My answers are generally more useful than that, especially about social stuff, but I'm in a bit of a rush and 2/3 of my answers were elaborate versions of IDK. Further questions: <a href="mailto:localsexsymbol@yahoo.com">localsexsymbol@yahoo.com</a></p>
<p>The Econ department here is our largest department. As a major, I can tell you that I've really loved our department.</p>
<p>It's quite different from a traditional business major, but not so much so that you will be precluded from business jobs, most of which want to give you some extensive training of their own anyway. A huge proportion of our majors end up going into finance, management, and consulting. The opening few courses in the econ major are reasonably theoretical and more applicable as a liberal arts econ training, but we have finance courses that are open with at most minimal prerequisites.</p>
<p>I've heard from many that Duke has a typical southern conservative environment. Would growing up in a liberal city (NYC) all my life make it uncomfortable for me to be there (in Duke)? </p>
<p>and, about what % of the student body is Asian/pacific islander?</p>
<p>Duke's campus environment is not southern/conservative. The majority of Duke students (75%) come from areas other than the south, and many are from NY/NJ. </p>
<p>The Asian percentage is 21.5% for this year's class. </p>
<p>Duke is an extremely conservative university. Democrats outnumber Republicans in our faculty by something like 6.3:1*, which makes us EXTREMELY conservative by the standards of academia.</p>
<p>*95 registered Democrats to 15 registered Republicans, with many non-registered or independent (based on my experience, left-leaning) faculty.</p>
<p>The party affiliation stats are, at best, incomplete and at worst intentionally misleading. What departments are those from? What is the source? Why only 110 people when there are over 600 faculty members? If those numbers are from where I believe they are from, then the sample was skewed towards membership in those departments that have imbalances to the left...</p>