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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where do we think Duke falls on the grind-culture spectrum for engineering (BME?) Northwestern? Case?

I’m kind of hoping my kid chooses Wisconsin or Pitt over Michigan because my impression is that those school cultures seem a bit friendlier and less intense — not academically, but in terms of personalities?

Is there anything to that or am I making things up?

She is really hoping for some intellectual heft — defined more by depth than by workload — where kids help each other and aren’t constantly trying to out-gun each other. Does this exist for engineering?

Or is the grind factor overblown? [/quote]

Not sure about all those schools and sure there are people here that can chime in on Pitt.  Being from the Midwest, we know tons of kids at Wisconsin in STEM and they all seem to like it.   I do know that at Georgia Tech (#1 for BME) where my kid is a freshman, the students are very supportive of each other and the school really encourages this.  They really focus on service and all just kids with a common interests having fun and learning at a high level.

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