Duke University Top Questions

Way too hard and everyone is too competitive. Don't learn anything you wouldn't learn at any other dumb fuck school.

Hard or very easy. It sucks to be in hard engineering classes when athletes and some trinity kids have such easy courses with little or no work.

Duke's academic requirements can be ridiculous, but they ensure that you receive a well rounded education.

Just try. The classes are difficult but aren't anything a typical Duke student can't handle. The biggest key is trying and putting for the effort to study and do your homework. That can get to be way hard.

some students study far too much. engineering school is absurd. political science is a great major, small classes, interesting teachers. best class was con. law with chemerinsky. education is definitly geared towards learning in general and gaining skills not particular to any job. too much emphasis on wall st. after school.

Duke is amazing because you will find yourself in intellectual discussions of a caliber you would not expect, at any random time of day. Everyone around you is just as academically motivated and bright as you are.

I like the faculty a lot.

Professors are professors, studennts are students. It's a school. These things happen.

These are pretty disappointing. There are some real opportunities for great classes and engagement with the material, but too many of the classes do not force/encourage students to really dig into the material and too many professors are willing to let obvious bullshit slide through. There should be a wider variety of courses available and professors should take a stronger stand in demanding more participation in their courses.

Academics at Duke are great. I have had a fantastic experience in all classes except BAA 93D with Linder. He is the most unrealistically hard teacher for an intro level science class. Keep him teaching grad students and upper level science majors who care.