<p>I applied because the academics are amazing, basketball, and that there's a ****ing LEMUR HOUSE</p>
<p>b/c the feeling i got when i visited. definitely could see myself there.</p>
<p>plus the basketball, academics and well, its Duke.</p>
<p>To be honest, because it feels right.
Not to mention the academics and athletics there (;</p>
<p>-the combination of tenting (I watch upwards of 75% of dukes games already) and a reputation as a world class institution for BME and economics.
-a diverse, unified, and other-oriented student body
-one syllable names are always fun too@</p>
<p>The visit made me love it. When I talked to a recent graduate my love was confirmed.</p>
<p>@ KOConnor10:</p>
<p>If I had a nickel for every single freshman who thought they were going to major in BME and Economics, I’d take myself to a delicious meal at the Washington Duke Inn. If I had a nickel for every single senior who graduated with a degree in BME and Econ I’d go to Mickey D’s and be lucky to eat off the dollar menu.</p>
<p>My dad went there. So did my uncle and aunt. I’ve grown up loving the school. The basketball is an obvious plus. No other school’s student body that I’ve seen has as much spirit and pride in their school as Duke does. I’ve wanted to go to Duke since I was maybe 5. I’m known as “Duke Girl” at school because I wear a Duke shirt at least once a week. I will definitely be beyond disappointed if I don’t get in on Thursday.</p>
<p>i used to live next to duke, ive watched them in march madness when i was young, my dad attended there, i love the gardens and went there often, and i wear a duke sweater once a week.
however i doubt ill get in :(</p>
<p>I first visited duke in the eighth grade and the tents and cameron stadium blew me away. the many other visits ive made since then have only increased my love of this school. heres hoping!</p>
<p>-Definitely like to mention the campus atmosphere during my visit as well.
-Expanding on my point about basketball; in addition to being an avid basketball fan, i see the spirit of students at games as a microcosm representing the attitude of the student body on the whole, something i feel that distinguishes my HS experience, too.</p>
<p>@Cameron</p>
<p>I would expect as much. To clarify, my initial post had more to do with those being my specific areas of interest, and double majoring in those two subjects at Duke is more of a goal, something I would most likely sacrifice in order to experience the other opportunities duke has to offer (e.g. work hard play harder?, on a more serious note DukeEngage).</p>
<p>You seem to know the scheduling and major process well, and heres a question I would ask an adviser given a chance to attend duke. If a freshman engineering student has several AP credits they plan to use to test out of intro coures(CalcBC, Econ(s), Physics C, Chem, Bio, English - my understanding is engineers can use as many APs as wanted) would they be able to stomach a BME/econ double major given they proactively schedule from their first semester freshman year, without taking on a significantly larger course load than a regular BME major, which i assume, is hard enough. -Thank you.</p>
<p>I actually know a fair amount of BME/Econ or ME/Econ students…It’s a relatively common double major for those in Pratt. It’s certainly not easy, but if you have AP tests and schedule your courses very carefully, you probably only have to overload (5 courses) perhaps one or two semesters and don’t need to take summer courses (although you’ll have ZERO choice of electives; every course will be to fulfill a requirement). If you want to go into management consulting or i-banking, engineering/econ double is a great way to make yourself a desirable candidate to firms…But, yeah, it’s true that there are a lot more people who say they’re going to do the double than actually do it. I mean, 30% of freshman in Pratt transfer out so most people don’t even get through the single major. Econ is the same thing; the intro econ courses are becoming more weeder classes every year. Many people drop econ. Certainly not an easy double, and everybody thinks they can do since they excelled so much in high school…well the competition at Duke is a lot harder. But if you put you mind to it, it’s certainly possible, and it’s probably the single most common double Pratt/Trinity combination next to chemistry/math/biology.</p>
<p>I don’t know a whole lot about Pratt advising. In terms of your social life during the term, yeah you’ll be giving up a lot if you were to be do a BME/Econ double major, just because Pratt kids work a lot harder no matter what. You also give up a lot of your ability to study abroad - engineers can pretty much only go to English-speaking countries, and a much smaller proportion go than Trinity kids. You could absolutely still do DukeEngage, though - DukeEngages are almost always in the summer and wouldn’t conflict with your classes during the term.</p>
<p>Econ majors comprise roughly 1/4 of each year’s Trinity graduating class. I’d say roughly 1/2 of Trinity wanted to be an Econ major coming in. Roughly 1/2 the Pratt graduating class is BME, so out of 250 roughly a year that’s still 125. Assuming roughly 1400 kids in Trinity, that’s still about 475 kids graduating with either degree or roughly more than 1/4 the graduating class (of course there are some double majors overlapping, but that would still be roughly 1/4)</p>
<p>The lemur house is surprisingly difficult to tour. They don’t just hold open tours, you need to schedule special appointments. Not that that should deter you from coming here.</p>
<ol>
<li>Beautiful campus</li>
<li>Solid academic programs</li>
<li>Good feeder school to wallstreet</li>
<li>Couldn’t get into HYMPS</li>
<li>Duke was the best out of the schools I got into (Didn’t wanna go to Cornell, LSE was in London, Northwestern didn’t seem right, U of Chicago seemed to tense, UCB didn’t seem right)</li>
</ol>