Duke Academic atmosphere?

TopTier
Sat, 28 Mar 2015 13:55:11 +0000

@tennisforall‌:

This is not new for Pratt; it dates to the 1960’s, probably earlier.

While I understand your concerns and frustration, roughly what percentage is “a number of students” who leave Pratt for Trinity? I believe that’s an important question because – even at a university with Duke’s admissions standards – some individuals select concentrations that prove to be inappropriate, that they simply are not fitted to pursue (whether that’s engineering, or economics, or chemistry, or music, or humanities, or sociology . . . ).

To illustrate, if (perhaps) 15 percent of a Pratt class transferred to other majors (due to math and MANY other reasons), that might (?) be typical at Duke and at many other first-tier universities, but if 40 percent did so, it might be “weeding out.”