<p>Well, before coming to Duke I seriously thought there will be nothing to do here. But I was wrong. I mean there are more than 6000 kids here in the 18~22 age group. Simply by the law of supply and demand, there should be plenty of things you find interesting to do no matter what kind of preferences you have.
And yea you are right about that internship thing. Seriously, you’ll do most of your internships during summer, when you have almost four months of free time. Working at other places shouldn’t be any problem for you.
As for the 4.0 GPA… that really comes down to individuals. A 4.0 in trinity should be about top 3% or so (since about 3.9 is top 10%…). probably something less… And remember, there are kids who came here that got into HYMPS but chose Duke because they got full scholarships or sth like that. I don’t wanna say that performances from hs determines that of college, but it certainly is not easy. I won’t really comment on the gpa because it seriously depends on who you are and how much you are willing to commit yourself.</p>