<p>You tell me....</p>
<p>well. Its A new rising power. That’s what I wrote about in the supplement. Never mind. I just like the school.</p>
<p>Any opinions from current students?</p>
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<p>[Rankings</a> - Best Engineering Schools - Graduate Schools - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/rankings/page+2]Rankings”>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering-schools/rankings/page+2)</p>
<p>@interestingguy</p>
<p>I don’t know why you insist on telling everyone that you think Duke isn’t a good school and that other school’s “weaknesses” are better than Duke’s strength. I, for one, don’t think rankings can tell the entire story. The opportunities for research/etc. are great at Duke, seeing as Duke is apart of the Research Triangle. </p>
<p>Duke is great school and you can’t deny that. It is still a top 10 school (if you want to go by your beloved rankings).</p>
<p>let him be, he’s a ■■■■■. Responding to him will only encourage what he does. If he likes to post ranking then let him. It’s not like a Duke degree is so “looked down upon” anyway.</p>
<p>That certainly is true.</p>
<p>extremely agree! I love the school. well. and its basketball.</p>
<p>Check out the Duke Career Center site and look at the names of the corporations that recruit at Duke. Then go to the corporate web site and see where else they recruit. That should give you some indication of the regard in which a Pratt degree is held. I will just say that our son has had no shortage of interviews with highly regarded organizations so far this fall. He was also able to secure excellent internships while a Pratt student (and his parents have NO connections or strings he could pull!).</p>
<p>Son graduated in 09…and his Pratt buddies, male and female, all landed good jobs in a recession. Granted, some offers came in very late in the spring but nevertheless…all his Pratt friends are employed or in med school. Duke is overall a tough experience with excellent peers no matter where you major. My son told me yesterday that he learned more from his classmates than the faculty at times. Duke students IMHO tend to be more preprofessional than students that matriculate to some other fine colleges and they often have a good eye on job prospects and are realistic early in their academic careers about the need for work and internship experiences.</p>
<p>As for the experience: If you go to Pratt, expect to work very hard and expect to work a lot!</p>
<p>This is true, to an extent, at most engin programs. Son tells me that his friends at our highly ranked state engin program have much more time for fun than he does at Duke. (But he prefers the kind of fun he CAN have at Duke.)</p>
<p>Okay, im applying. Im under the impression that it would be easier to get into Pratt than another school at Duke, is that true?</p>
<p>No. The demands for Pratt are higher regarding test scores, and you’re competing for less spots. However, statistically, Pratt has a higher acceptance rate, so it’s really a mixed bag and “different” rather than “easier” or “harder.”</p>
<p>Do you have the freshman class profile test scores for Pratt?</p>
<p>[Duke</a> University Admissions: Class of 2013 Profile](<a href=“http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2013profile.html]Duke”>http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2013profile.html)</p>
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<p>Wow, the number of non-Caucasian students for the class of 2013 is EXACTLY the same as the number of Caucasian students (699). What are the chances of that!? (Although I’d expect a large chunk of the “Did not reply” segment is Caucasian as well; but some of it is probably Asian also).</p>
<p>Strange… The acceptance rates for engineering are higher but so are the test scores.</p>
<p>-The DiVE
-The fact that you can refer to Trinity as the “Trinity College of Arts and Crafts”
-You have a job after graduation (this last one isn’t special about Duke engineering, its just about engineering in general)</p>
<p>Why do so few people apply to Duke engineering in comparison to the college of arts and sciences? Is it simply because the college of arts and sciences offers more majors? </p>
<p>I would think that more people would apply to Duke engineering, since it’s a popular area of study and Duke’s engineering program is one of the best in the nation (ex. biological engineering.)</p>
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<p>Most of the best engineers tend to go to MIT/Caltech. Pratt is different in that it’s a very liberal arts/comprehensive look at engineering, and most engineers probably want to stay away from the humanities. Many, many kids in Pratt tend to double major, one Pratt major and one Trinity major.</p>
<p>Moreover, most kids are not engineers. They are something else. Therefore, it’s natural that since Trinity offers pathways to more majors (and therefore more careers/professional schools), more kids are in Trinity. The same is at other schools (e.g.; Penn, Columbia).</p>