Note to CCers about Duke

eatsalot
Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:17:41 +0000

John, I think your first mistake is to assume that CC matters. Who cares what people on here think, jeez



Amen.



And if a CC student is planning a career on engineering, I would 100% advocate him to choose MIT or Cornell over Duke.



Yet, you say

Prestige-wise, Yale is probably better than UCLA. But that doesn’t mean Yale is a better school



Come to Duke first and realize that the difference in these perceived “differences” in schools is miniscule and negligible. If a student wantEd a well-rounded engineering education and wants a life that only Duke offers, why go to MIT/Cornell when you can get a comparable education at Duke? The problem with many on CC is that when they see “HYPSM,” they ignore other great schools that offer similar environments and a great education like Duke, Penn, Columbia, UChicago, etcetc.