<p>I visited duke for latino recruitment weekend and just got back yesterday. I am absolutely in love with the school. I also visited rice a couple of months ago and thought I was absolutely in love with it until I visited duke. Now at home I've relaxed a little bit and although I enjoyed the students at Duke a bit more, rice was not at all disappointing. I would really love to go to duke though, its become my dream school.
The only thing is rice gave me a ton of needbased grants, and a merit scholarship. I can go to rice without taking out any loans, and the only thing I need to cover is personal expenses and books. My duke situation has me taking out $5000 in loans every year.
I want to study either civil engineering or biomed engineering or both or maybe a double with finance or economics.
Any suggestions as to what I should choose in this situation?</p>
<p>I know that Duke is definitely good in Biomedical Engineering.</p>
<p>Either one. As I've said before. I'm in the same situation with Amherst and Duke.</p>
<p>Rice sounds like a better deal.</p>
<p>You might want to try out the loan calculator:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.csumentor.edu/FinAid/SLOPE/%5B/url%5D">http://www.csumentor.edu/FinAid/SLOPE/</a></p>