Duke Academic atmosphere?

tennisforall
Sat, 28 Mar 2015 00:11:19 +0000

I do not see a meaningful distinction. For the most part the required math courses at Duke are poorly taught and very difficult. Add to this the grades are put on a curve when most in the class had perfect or close to perfect SAT and AP scores. Curved results in my opinion are inappropriate for an elite school. It should be the grasp of the subject matter, not a 46% gets you a B. Not privy to the intent but a number of students leave Pratt because of the math courses. Whether you do or do not consider them weeded out, they are out. My only non A’s through 24+ credits are in the math courses and I studied my tail off. IMO if you don’t have to take a math course don’t.