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

[Anonymous]

Worst humble brag ever! Go to Duke.

[Anonymous]

If someone is well rouded and outgoing go ti Duke and take advantage of everything IT offers. By contrast MIT one dimentional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been to MIT alumni events. It’s a lot of midlevel engineers in bad suits who are wondering if they can get a second gift bag.

Are there famous founders? Sure. Is that typical? No.

Lotta sour grapes on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Mike White does not agree. 😂

but..... "Saaaxon graduated from Doook"

[Anonymous]

DUKE and Put $300K to Nasdaq.

Kid will retire in the 40s.

[Anonymous]

Rip 'em up, tear 'em up, give 'em hell, Duke!

[Anonymous]

Easy. Free ride at Duke. Don’t be ridiculous. Go to MIT for grad school. I

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ve been to MIT alumni events. It’s a lot of midlevel engineers in bad suits who are wondering if they can get a second gift bag.

Are there famous founders? Sure. Is that typical? No.

Lotta sour grapes on this thread.

I went to MIT! Sorry, that was obv!

I enjoyed my time there (mostly), but people saying the the MIT degree will open a lifetime of millionaire success is just wrong. I've seen it over generations. We're mostly just engineers! It's a great job, but it's not a pipeline to the billionaire class

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Easy. Free ride at Duke. Don’t be ridiculous. Go to MIT for grad school. I

If they go to MIT they wouldn't need to go to grad school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t really know why people think MIT has the better peer group. My kid went to MIT and loved it. But as the girls there say, “the odds are good, but the goods are odd”. She said, it wasn’t if you were on the spectrum, but where on the spectrum. She fit that description. She and her friends all got great jobs, for sure. But more 95k salaries than 300k salaries.

Duke feels like the smart beautiful people. Richer. More connected. Private school. I gotta think their outcomes are just as good if not better.

So true. The MIT nerds will get good jobs out of graduation but many will be stuck in midlevel careers.

I think the choice largely depends on what you want -- do you want the rah rah, "I want to be CEO", schmoozy atmosphere? That would be Duke.

Do you want the "let's see why x does y" nerdy smart atmosphere? That would be MIT.

MIT has way more patents than Duke.

[Anonymous]

I was at MIT for undergrad and grad school, and I would pick it again over Harvard and Stanford. But I would take a full ride to Duke over every other option (I didn't apply there for undergrad though). I already consider Duke in a similar band of eliteness, and for free with I'm assuming special perks for being a merit scholar, you can't pass that up. I see a lot of conversation about "doors opened" by MIT that won't be opened by Duke, but that really doesn't exist. Although there will be more MIT grads at top hedge funds or quant firms, you can certainly get there from Duke, and the Duke name on your resume won't close that door. In my industry (tech) Duke grads have produced several impressive startups: Coinbase, Plaid, Airtable, Duolingo, etc. MIT definitely produces founders at a much higher rate per capita, but again Duke won't stop your kid from going down that path. Take the money and have your kid enjoy four years in NC!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Mike White does not agree. 😂

but..... "Saaaxon graduated from Doook"

Got to hand it to you.

[Anonymous]

Duke and spend the savings on grad school, first home down payment.

[Anonymous]

If you have the money saved - I vote MIT

But that's as long as he knows it's a totally different culture and MIT will be extremely challenging and is up for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was at MIT for undergrad and grad school, and I would pick it again over Harvard and Stanford. But I would take a full ride to Duke over every other option (I didn't apply there for undergrad though). I already consider Duke in a similar band of eliteness, and for free with I'm assuming special perks for being a merit scholar, you can't pass that up. I see a lot of conversation about "doors opened" by MIT that won't be opened by Duke, but that really doesn't exist. Although there will be more MIT grads at top hedge funds or quant firms, you can certainly get there from Duke, and the Duke name on your resume won't close that door. In my industry (tech) Duke grads have produced several impressive startups: Coinbase, Plaid, Airtable, Duolingo, etc. MIT definitely produces founders at a much higher rate per capita, but again Duke won't stop your kid from going down that path. Take the money and have your kid enjoy four years in NC!

Best post in the thread. Thank you.