<p>Holy war with golubb_u ... HAHAHA ... you know yourself that this guy always posts without thinking.</p>
<p>LOL :) Alexandre, when you talk about 'prestige' you shouldn't refer to the number of classes offered, I think you will agree with me that those things are not so correlated. In any case, Caltech is not a specialty academy like julliard and Naval academy.</p>
<p>rtkyisg - the only thing that you're correct on is that Caltech is 40% full of MIT rejects, as opposed to the 60% that I listed. Everything else I've said is on the money.</p>
<p>Alexandre, I agree with your description of Caltech in that it does lack the resources required to be competitive. Research dollars, school enrollment, etc. are all important. Caltech is a tiny school on the academic map, and while it may have an intensive engineering program, it doesn't make a dent in other major fields.</p>
<p>GoLubb, you and I do not agree. I agree with Rtksyg more than I do with you. I never said that CalTech has limited resources. It doesn't. CalTech has fewer than 2,000 students and an endowment of $2.5 Billion!!! It has incredible resources. And CalTech is not just strong in Engineering. It is amazing in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geology, Mathematics and Physics...and pretty good in Economics. What I said is that CalTech has limited academic offerings.</p>
<p>And what does yield have to do with anything? Cal, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Michigan all have yield rates lower than University of Minnesota and UT-Austin. Yield rates are not an indicator of quality.</p>
<p>"rtkyisg - the only thing that you're correct on is that Caltech is 40% full of MIT rejects, as opposed to the 60% that I listed. Everything else I've said is on the money.?"</p>
<p>LOL, all the think I said was correct, golubb_u why don't you get some solid knowledge before posting, it's really laughable.</p>
<p>" Caltech is a tiny school on the academic map"</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHHAAHA ........ you're simply ignorant</p>
<p>"Meltingsnow... what on earth are you talking about?"</p>
<p>I could be wrong, maybe it is female students who go on and on about whose sch[t]ool is bigger or better? But my guess is all these "my school's better thanyour school" arguments are very much in the same tradition as foam fingers being held high at football games (even when your school is objectively not number one as determined by wins and losses). Since there are no "wins & losses" in academics, the male (perhaps, non-athletic type) argues a different kind of who's number one.
It just seems like such a childish (boyish?) argument. No one could possibly be swayed in choosing one school over another because of what anyone of these "we're number 1" foam-fingered guys have to say.
Perhaps I'm wrong, maybe this isn't driven by athletically challenged boys, maybe it's boys in general and maybe it's not boys at all (but we all no better don't we, although, perhaps there is the occasional girl).</p>
<p>You all sound a bit too much like the guys who argue on ESPN and not like a bunch of thoughtful scholars on a PBS special on University education.</p>
<p>Sometimes its cute, so please continue....maybe sometime soon, you could get to the real issue of who's dad is bigger.</p>
<p>For a person who's claiming sexism in some way I don't understand, you seem to be making quite a few stereotypical assumptions about gender yourself. For example, your equating "childish" with "boyish." As for your last sentence, why not girls getting to the real issue - who's daddy is richer?</p>
<p>Ok. I´m a foreigner, and here in my country Harvard, Yale and Stanford really do have "the" reputation of being the best schools (more specifically in law).</p>
<p>How would Duke rate in comparison to such schools, in terms of prestige and reputation in the U.S.? Is it considered to be on the same level, or would a graduate student from Duke with similar or even a little higher GPA be bound to lose a job spot to a graduate student from Harvard or Yale for instance ?</p>
<p>Duke is on par with Harvard and Yale in most respects. If you are a good student at Duke, the same doors that open to good students from Harvard and Yale.</p>
<p>Thanks for the answer. Just for info: do you go there :-) ?</p>
<p>No, I never attended Duke. I did get accepted for my undergrad but I went elsewhere. However, I have great respect for Duke. It is an amazing university. Any school that can lure the president of Yale is a special university.</p>
<p>it's so ironic how meltingsnow is *****ing about how males are so sexist when I see her post as far more sexist than any other post in this thread...</p>
<p>meltingsnow: get a life.</p>
<p>Alexandre: Out of curiosity, what are Duke's strongest departments?</p>
<p>to the participants in this post: this thread is hilarious. thank you for the memories.</p>
<p>You're welcome. It's sad that you need the Internet for memories and that you don't have the guts to make your username in a forum full of people that you will never meet anything other than "Anonymous."</p>
<p>Get a life? .boys, youre arguing on the internet about which school is more prestigious and you think someone else in this world, anyone else, needs to get a life? </p>
<p>By the way, no one addressed the question; am I wrong, or are you pretty much all guys arguing about which team I mean school .is greater then every other team I mean school? And would I be wrong in thinking this argument cycles through cc every year with the same meaningless outcome?</p>
<p>Duke is excellent in multiple departments. But I would say Biology, English, Political Science are its strongers department.</p>
<p>haha xanatos, i could probably respond with an intelligent argument, but ill settle for "at least i HAVE friends."</p>
<p>meltingsnow,</p>
<p>you got balls (I failed PC my junior year)! and I agree with almost everything you said; lets get back to a meaningful sport, even if they did cancel the hockey season--if you're right--many of the guys would prefer some non-contact sport anyhow.</p>
<p>Yes, because clearly my post indicates that I must have no friends...a brilliant deduction.</p>