Duke vs. Northwestern in bioengineer

rlu
Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:19:21 +0000

I have been accepted to Northwestern and waitlisted by Duke. Both schools are great in the bio/biomed engineer field; however, my father urges me to passionately persuade Duke to reconsider me. He argues that Duke is more prominent to the biotech companies and that its biomed ranking is much higher than NU. Even though undergrad doesn’t reflect much on job resumes, he argues that schools are protective of their students and if I go to Duke they will certainly pave my road to their grad research programs.

Personally, I’d choose NU because Chicago sounds like a great city while Durham looks like the middle of nowhere(i may be wrong, this is just the impression i got), but my dad does have some solid points (at least it sounds like it.)
Can someone help with my ambivalence???