Opinions on Cornell/TriI and Duke
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In brief:
Tri-I:
-more and better research opportunities
-NYC: fun, but horrible standard of living
-weaker med school
Duke:
-enough good labs that you can find a great one for you
-Durham: not as fun, but great standard of living
-better med school. However, I personally think that cramming the first two years of med school into one is a travesty. I'm happy to debate this but it's late so I'll leave it at that for now.
Both have some of the fastest graduation times of all MSTPs.
Really, though, it will - and should - probably come down to where you'd rather live. If you want to be in NYC, go to Tri-I. If you want to live in Durham, go to Duke. You will get roughly the same training at either place if you apply yourself.
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Like you say, they are both outstanding. Can't go wrong. I would look for the better grad school department in the field you are interested in. If you are interested in Virology, for example, and Duke's dept has 45 faculty to Cornell's 10, then you should DEFINITELY got to Duke... I'm making up these numbers, but it is something you need to seriously consider.
