<p>sorry this was probably already a thread, but I couldn't find one... which school is harder to get into????</p>
<p>How difficult is it to transfer between the schools once applied? </p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>engineering has a higher accept rate, but i dont think that means its necessarily "easier" to get into</p>
<p>It does have a higher acceptance rate, but the applicant pool is apparently much, much stronger. I talked to a Duke guy at a college fair and he said that the Pratt school is more selective, hands down, although I was kind of skeptical at the time. It apparently is really not that difficult to transfer between the two; I've asked that question many times myself.</p>
<p>Numerically, at least, the SAT/ACT numbers for Pratt are higher (yes, even in verbal. Mwahahahaha). For transferring - it is relatively easy to do in either direction. Here's the thing - please don't game the system. Apply to the school you really think you want to try, and then if that doesn't work out after having a bit more information (by, say, taking a few classes) look at transferring. Nothing irritates me more than having a first-semester student come in for advising with a clearly-Trinity schedule and a transfer request on the first day of advising, while their "Why Pratt?" essay was a gloriously written homage to all things engineering. That bespeaks a lack of ethics that, while I am glad the person will not be in Pratt, makes for a very false start.</p>
<p>Now - if at the end of the first semester I have a student come in who, after weighing all the options, having at least taken an engineering course or gone to some if not all of the Engineering 10 seminars, and having honestly come to the decision that engineering isn't the right direction, I'll be more than happy to write the rec to go up the hill and talk about the different Trinity advising options...</p>
<p>thanks I agree dukeegr i just have NO idea wat i wanna do and egineering is an option but i really don't know so it makes sense to apply to the easier one but i think i'm going to apply to engineering anyways (i already wrote the supplement for u of i on engineering ha) thanks all</p>
<p>I have a similar situation, jvon, except I decided to start out in Physics and take an engineering class maybe to check it out.</p>
<p>one aspect of duke that i really like is the certificate program. i asked this same question to an admissions officer because i want to follow a liberal arts curriculum, but at the same time, i want to pursue an avenue in architecture to prepare myself for graduate studies. the representative explained to me that through the certificate program, i can take various architecture classes through the pratt school in addition to my liberal arts courses at trinity.</p>
<p>The architecture certificate is definitely a way to be in Trinity and experience Pratt - you'll just have to make sure you schedule courses well since the engineering courses do not help with The Curriculum graduation requirements. It's a continuing topic of discussion here (why, for example, Trinity students cannot get some kind of quantitative reasoning credit for an Pratt class).</p>