<p>I only know that Duke's Literature program is world class.... anymore??</p>
<p>in what majors are duke ranked or regarded very well for, compared to other colleges?</p>
<p>biology, biomedical engineering, chemistry, physics, math, computer science, public policy/political science, economics, cultural anthropology, sociology, and history.</p>
<p>not sure undergrad rankings of any of those except for bme, which is #2 according to USN&WR. Grad rankings are as follows according to USN&WR: literary criticism and theory = 1st, ecology and evol bio = 5 , bme = 5, "sciences" = 12, math = 21, comp sci = 25, physics = 29, chem = 38.</p>
<p>w00t, thanks man!</p>
<p>Religion, French, and Spanish are also top 5 programs.</p>
<p>Classics and geology/environmental science are highly regarded programs. The Nicholas School is perhaps the best of its kind, and relatively few colleges have their own marine lab.</p>
<p>I've heard that Duke has a good psychology major too. Don't know much about the rankings. That's just what my AP Psych teacher said.</p>
<p>Yeah, psych and neuroscience are both very strong. Medieval & Renaissance Studies is another awesome department I forgot.</p>
<p>Duke is the only school I know of that offers Biological Anthropology as a major. :cool:</p>
<p>psychology, econ, BME, bio, BAA, spanish, literature, etc. are pretty strong</p>
<p>i don't think duke stacks up though in terms of certain kinds of engineering... i could be wrong though, since i'm in trinity</p>
<p>No the engineering school is pretty decent overall. (its still in the top 30) BME itself may be rated upwards of number two but the engineering school in general is pretty good still.</p>
<p>what do they rank in econ...i know they're good but i don't remember.</p>
<p>when you get to schools like duke, ivies, stanford, etc., they're strong in almost every area. it's grasping straws at that point. i think it's amusing wheon kids go into college so intent on being econ/bio/etc majors and end up switching out when they get rocked by intro classes.</p>
<p>And you will get rocked by intro classes</p>
<p>Oh so very rocked.</p>
<p>I agree with bluedevil1027 and Sir Gecko.
Once upon a time, I was thinking of being a chem major and then I met organic chemistry. Now, I'm just trying to see what I'm good at.
I just hope (and feel strangely confident about) that Math 103 has to go better than Chem 151 did.</p>
<p>Duke is your best bet though for ecology, evolutionary biology, and biological anthropology. These subjects make Duke stand out from the rest of its peer schools. As for the other subjects, if you are going to pick Duke just because of that, lol to you!</p>
<p>I also agree...you will get rocked and then some by pretty much every major at Duke. None of Duke's majors are bad, but the ones we're famous for are econ, bme, pub pol, poli sci, and environmental science.</p>
<p>why is duke so hard?</p>
<p>Because it is a top tier school and professors expect a lot from the student body. Everyone was a rock star in high school so suddenly everything is made harder because it can be made harder. (also since a lot of things at University are graded on a curve it doesn't help that you are no longer the smartest person in the class)</p>
<p>how hard is duke compared to high school? is proscrastinating permittable? I am a big procrastinator suffering from senioritis now. What is Duke really like?</p>
<p>well at least for me--and this is coming from NMSF, ap national scholar, 2/820 in my class</p>
<p>duke is ridiculously hard. but then again, i took 103 and chem 23L which are ridiculously hard classes.</p>
<p>i don't think duke has any grade inflation for math or science classes-so beware. you're competing against people who are just as smart as you, who put in twice as much time as you do, etc. etc.</p>
<p>Duke is way harder than high school. I was pretty good in high school (Nation Merit Scholar, high test scores, never really broke a sweat in school) and Duke has been kicking my ass for the last couple years. (of course I am a BME premed who does a lot of other stuff that has nothing to do with partying so it is definitely possible to choose a much easier path at Duke than mine)</p>
<p>Procrastinating happens (I sadly do it even though I shouldn't) but it isn't something you make up lightly. Second semester sophomore year I typically didn't sleep from about 0545 Tuesday morning till 2100 Wednesday night and this was just to complete all the assignments for one class. (worst grade I've ever received I got from that class, and I worked my ass off; sometimes it just doesn't click) That said a lot of people get away with doing all their work at the last minute but they all seem to be non hard science/math/engineering majors. The strategy that seems to work best is just do all the work early. While I know this is advice that everyone gives and noone seems to follow, every Trinity person that I have seen do this seems to have a lot of pretty stress free time to use on other pursuits. (but make sure that when you work, you don't screw around because that just wastes more time) Engineering this doesn't work quite so well because you are always working.</p>
<p>duke is harder than high school -- even if you are in one of those "non hard" majors these engineers are talking about.</p>
<p>procrastination is a huge fact of life, but as long as you realize that there's going to come a time when you need to buckle down and get things done and if you've procrastinated a lot, you'll have to make some sacrifices of fun things, you'll get work done. after about a year i learned to be super productive during the day. being a non-science/engineering student, my in-class time isn't frequent since i have no labs and take small classes so don't really have discussion sections. what works for me is to wake up, get breakfast, go to my classes, spend all free time other than a normal lunch in the library until about dinner. by doing that, if its not major test/paper time, i can really accomplish the vast majority, if not all, of my day-to-day work and have really light nights which for me is great, since that's when more people are around and distractions are high. so if i get nothing done at night (possible) from watching tv or talking with friends or now that i'm a sr, going out on a tues night, doesn't make me feel so guilty since i've done stuff all day and will do stuff the following day. there's less people around in the day also, and i find the library less stressful/more inviting in those hours. also- my big tip i've discovered like sophomore year and have done every semester since is a one class monday if possible (esp. fall semesters with tailgate weekends), so you're not stressing all weekend to hand things in for three classes on a monday, and if you get caught up in other pursuits over the weekend, you just have one class to truly worry about on sunday night, and then you can use alllllll day monday to get a handle on the rest of the week when you're already in the swing of things (on campus, been to a class, seeing others go to class, etc). granted, this is a trinity thing.</p>
<p>what else... yeah, get things done early. or at least START things early. if you know a test is in two or three weeks and you have a free afternoon and know you'll need a study guide or notecards, do that in the free time. even if they sit untouched in your room until close to the test, you've taken the time to make them and don't have to spend that time doing it in crunch time. outline a paper early, pop by office hours early with an outline to show your professor before every kid in the class has the memo that it's due within 48 hrs and are lined up outside. makes you look good even if you don't write it until the night before, and it's just eliminating stress. i mean, if you know procrastination is a weakness, come up with little things like that to cut the stress of crunch time. i know i'lll never be able to NOT procrastinate, so i do things to help me out. another thing i do is that i am a obsessive planner -- i seriously have a dry erase schedule of the week in my room with EVERYTHING on it - from due dates, to tests, to sorority meetings, to big parties. i have all of that on my mac iCal which is synced to my ipod and in my actual written organizer. if i know there's something huge i want to do over the weekend -- like an all-day saturday party at a frat house or a sorority formal -- things im not planning on missing, i see it at the beginning of the week, or a couple of weeks before, so i can start re-budgeting time to truly plan for it and still accomplish everything.</p>