Dartmouth or Duke

<p>Current duke freshman here who is likely to transfer to Dartmouth, so just to address one of your pros for Duke- be very careful about the focus program. I did one and everyone I talked to agreed that it was the biggest waste of time and money. We learned random things totally irrelevant to the topic or any career we might want and the topics had no relation to each other. The prof went so far as to request that we tell the dept how much we ‘loved’ the class because he didn’t want it to be cancelled-the dept even felt it was useless. However, during blue devil days, these same classmates were praising the focus program and when I asked them why they were misleading freshman they said it was bc they wanted them to choose duke. I feel that I was misled multiple times when I was a perspective freshman and this led to me making the big mistake of picking duke. I’m not saying definitely choose Dartmouth but be very careful about what you are told. Duke is a great for certain types of people but I met a significant number of students who also felt misled and like they did not fit. </p>

<p>I would be happy to talk more over pm if you would like. Good luck! :)</p>