Duke University

Truust
Fri, 01 Nov 2013 00:40:27 +0000

I have no experience with Duke, and I’m still a high school student as well so wait for other people to post some advice as well… but in my opinion if you have the opportunity of receiving that much aid and you like the the atmosphere of the school then apply early. If you don’t get in there, you can always fallback on the UCs (which in themselves are great universities), and no matter what anyone tells you, it’s easier to get into Duke if you apply early.

Also even though you don’t know what you want to do undergrad yet, Duke is strong in a variety of areas so you won’t find a problem with anything you decide to do there. On the other hand, if you knew for a fact that you wanted to do CS or Electrical engineering or something, I would say that it would be better to go to the UCs anyways (as good as Duke may be).

Again, I’m inexperienced for the most part with both schools, so wait for other posts as well.