<p>since i'm a female, do i have a higher chance of getting into duke because i applied to pratt than if i had applied to trinity? or are the standards for both colleges the same regardless of gender?</p>
<p>I don't think it makes too big of an impact. Duke doesn't have that much pressure to admit women to the engineering program for the sake of keeping the social and academic scene diverse or whatnot because there are plenty of women in Trinity to keep the school virtually 50/50 overall. I'm not sure what the ratio of males to females is in Pratt, but I don't think the admissions committee dwells on it. That said, it could still give you a slight advantage. (Afterall, the dean of Pratt is female, so she may want to advocate more female engineers, I don't know.)</p>
<p>i think duke is around 30%-35% females in engineering, one of the highest percentages nation wide</p>
<p>whoo go female duke engineers :D
pratt '09</p>
<p>lol yea ;) quite a few of them are cute</p>
<p>how would u kno? lol</p>
<p>Being a female applying to an engineering school would give you more of an advantage at MIT. I know MIT specifically makes efforts to reach out to women, so that they can maintain a socially diverse campus, whereas Duke's great social scene is not nearly as hard up for ladies.</p>
<p>Joey</p>
<p>hehe maybe i shoulda applied to MIT. ah well, thanks for the replies :)</p>
<p>i know b/c of the pictures they post on the accepted students' site</p>
<p>=)</p>
<p>were u accepted ED bbsbllallstr?</p>
<p>heh this is pretty cool.. i just found an article in a local newspaper by the dean of pratt talking about how engineering needs more women and minorities! XD</p>
<p>yea, i'll be headed to durham next fall =)</p>
<p>note about the pictures on the admitted students site: only the good looking ones post pictures. you look at all the pictures and think "wow, everyone's hot" but you have to take into account the large proportion of profiles that have no pictures....
but duke's student body is, as a rule, good looking...</p>
<p>that said, I know I'm no "looker" myself and it's wrong to judge people by their looks haha...</p>
<p>haha thats a good point, but some of the pictures are hideous ;)</p>
<p>anywayz. ay_caramba, do many people get the lifts for their beds at duke? it seems pretty practical to sleep high to get the extra storage space..</p>
<p>Charmedone:</p>
<p>Here's an interesting article.</p>
<p>oh, yeah, we call them lofts. It's not a thing that everyone does but a lot of people do. If you're in Randolph or Blackwell you very well may want to since those rooms are smaller than the rooms where I am. But yeah, a lot of people do it and I think that you can pay people to do it for you at the beginning of the year or something. I'm not lofted so I don't know the details.</p>
<p>sry to bring up an old topic...but i think that this year, considering the comments made by the harvard dean, admisssions stats should be up for women in engineering. this should be especially true at stanford, princeton, and mit, where the presidents have collaborated to form a committee whose goal is to research involving more women in engineering. good luck if any of you applied to those schools!</p>
<p>article about stanford/princeton/mit collaboration: <a href="http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/05/q1/0211-womensci.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/05/q1/0211-womensci.htm</a></p>
<p>Hey, I got into Pratt ED in engineering, and I think being female may have had somethin to do with it. I've been in robotics and stuff too so I have demonstrated committment but my math ACT score was 29 and science reasoning was 28...my english and reading scores were superhigh... I was a little surprised I got in for that reason so I think it may have something to do with it. Plus a friend of mine that went to a Duke info session said they were looking for more females in engineering. I'm sure they wouldn't accept someone just because of gender, obviously...but it probably helps. I didn't realize the number of women engineers was that high (30%+) though, that's exciting.</p>
<p>it is exciting for me too :)</p>
<p>that new cinemas building looks freakin awesome, have you seen it?</p>
<p>was ciemas, now called the fitzpatrick center/vinik building. also, have you seen the LSRC?</p>