Agile Dienophile

Aaaah!! I am screaming internally because I am in the same situation. I loved everything about Duke during visitation (they were all so warm and friendly, faculty and grad students during the visit and really wanted us to be there) and I was pretty much using Duke as a yardstick when going to other visiting weekends. I have been accepted to 'higher ranking' top 15 programs but my heart is leaning towards Duke! It is good to know that there are people out there who went through this same situation but chose Duke and have no regrets.

I was at visiting weekend in February at Duke and I got a lot of 'good vibes' about the environment, the faculty, the research, and graduate students as well. I am fortunate enough to personally know someone (went to same undergrad) and is a Chem grad student there and he said he has no regrets and gave me some of his views. I'm still kind of undecided as I have one more visit to go to this week.