Duke [Full Scholarship] vs MIT [$77k/year]

[Anonymous]

Duke !

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke is an amazing school. Go there.

Mike White does not agree. 😂

[Anonymous]

MIT is #1 school in the world.

[Anonymous]

Dukies have more fun.

[Anonymous]

I’d pick Duke under these circumstances…and I’m a Tarheel! Full ride at a top school is hard to pass up, even if the other option is technically better by some metrics. Huge savings for your family. Congrats, whatever the decision!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow! I didn’t think Duke gave merit scholarships.

AB Duke Scholars: https://ousf.duke.edu/merit-scholarships/ab-duke-scholars-program/

[Anonymous]

Try to negotiate with MIT?

[Anonymous]

OP do you think he'll want to go to grad school?

[Anonymous]

How is this even a question? I’d get my kid to accept Duke before they change their mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d pick Duke under these circumstances…and I’m a Tarheel! Full ride at a top school is hard to pass up, even if the other option is technically better by some metrics. Huge savings for your family. Congrats, whatever the decision!

+1

Unless the $77K/year (that's nearly $320K total) is a "drop in the bucket" for your family, I simply don't see MIT as "that much better". A kid who can get into both and get a full scholarship with everything paid for at Duke is very smart. he will do exceedingly well wherever he attends college. So save the $$$ and let him graduate debt free and you not stress about your retirement or future kids college, etc.

[Anonymous]

If it's CS, then for sure MIT. The professional network alone will serve him well.

[Anonymous]

No comparison.

For CS your go to MIT even if it cost 10x more than Duke.

[Anonymous]

salaries out of the two, even in CS, are within 10% of each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke.

FWIW, my nephew graduated from MIT a year ago and has a very good, 120k job. which is what he'd have gotten out of duke.

That's very low, my DS made 145k from BR out of Emory.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid won a merit scholarship at Duke which would give him a full tuition, room, and board scholarship. He was also admitted to MIT, but received little aid and we would have to pay $77k/year. MIT was one of his dream schools, but I am wondering if we should go with Duke and maybe just give him the college money we saved as a graduation gift? I love the thought of him at MIT, but it seems nonsensical to turn down a full ride at a T10 just to pay out the nose for a T5. What would you do in this situation?

Do Duke for undergrad, save the $$$$$$$$ and apply to MIT for graduate school in the future

No, MIT is not worth $320K more

If they go to MIT for undergrad, they don't need a graduate degree. They are majoring in CS not prelaw or premed.