<p>Does Pratt have a certain amount of students they want enrolled each year. If so does anyone know about how many? Also if anyone knows, how many applicants do they accept for Pratt and how many actually attend. Thanks.</p>
<p>You can easily find this info from google or spending 2 minutes on duke.edu</p>
<p>So then I’m guessing they only accept a certain amount of engineering students as in Trinity can accept a certain number of students and Pratt can accept a certain number of students?</p>
<p>I think the magic number is 16.</p>
<p>It’s reeeeeaaaaaally competitive.</p>
<p>uhhmmm why are you guessing? As pyn suggested, look here: <a href=“https://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2012profile.html[/url]”>https://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2012profile.html</a></p>
<p>that’s a 28.6% (percent of applicant acception) rate for engineering. vs. arts & sciences which is about 17.6%. but the “Middle 50% Range” is higher for engineering, so it’s not necessarily easier to get into 
although, I hope so because I applied to Pratt.</p>
<p>Yes, the acceptance rate is higher but so are the SAT averages. Anyway, how much do you think my being Native American and a girl are going to help in my admission to Pratt? I know people hate when we talk about this, but I am really just curious. Also, does anyone have a firm number or percentage for Native Americans at Duke? I heard that there are apprx. 3-5 per class but, when I visited over spring break, they had a slide about “Diversity at Duke” and American Indian was not even listed…? I was going to ask if the class of 2012 had any Native American representation, but I chickened out :/. haha.</p>
<p>From the admissions website class of 2012 Profile:</p>
<p>Native American, American Indian, Native Alaskan, or Native Hawaiian = 0.6%</p>
<p>Assuming that 0.6% can be approximately applied to both the number admitted and matriculated, that would be about 25 admitted and 10 attending in the class of 2012.</p>
<p>Okay. I wonder how many applied…</p>
<p>Absolutely no clue</p>
<p>From inside looking out,</p>
<p>The general (favored) assumption is Pratt is much more competative. There are quite a few Trinity students looking to transfer in every year [mainly because their “hard stats” (ie the numbers are not up to par)], but a sizable do drop out due to the nature of engineering.</p>
<p>^ It is definitely a sizable number who drop. I think Pratt class of 2011 used to be something like 333. Now it’s around 287 (as of the end of fall semester 2008) and I know of more who have dropped out. We’re dropping like flies =( And I don’t know all that many Trinity students who want to switch in…Maybe like 2-3?</p>
<p>… why does everybody drop out??
and does pratt have a higher or lower yield than trinity?</p>
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<p>Because engineering is difficult/time-consuming/complex. It’s not for everybody and sometimes you don’t know that until you experience it first hand. Duke’s transfer rate out of Pratt is supposedly around 25%, while the national average for transfers out of engineering schools is around 30%. So, this phenomenon is NOT unique to Duke. No idea about yields.</p>