What’s so great about Duke?

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question - my kid has applied to both Duke and Cornell RD. I think he has a good shot of getting into both. Which one should he pick? He is a STEM kid FWIW. My gut feel is Cornell. He is not into frats or big 10 basketball.

I have family at both. Did he apply to Pratt or Trinity? For engineering, Cornell is generally better with the exception of biomedical. If we are talking arts and sciences, it's a wash for undergrad STEM. While Duke is in the ACC, plenty of reasons to go there besides basketball. Weather might be a consideration.

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Anonymous wrote:No one even knows that Penn is an Ivy.

Penn State is an Ivy?

One of my co-workers said her dad told her to go to Penn State instead of Penn b/c no one really knows the difference b/t the two. Wise man.

So you must have a very mediocre job then...The only people who dont know the difference between the two are unsophisticated, uneducated or semi-educated people who run in very mediocre circles. Btw those same people cannot name a single ivy past HY(P) and sure have never heard of Duke.

Never heard of Duke? The unwashed masses who don't know the lower Ivies probably have ESPN.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Serious question - my kid has applied to both Duke and Cornell RD. I think he has a good shot of getting into both. Which one should he pick? He is a STEM kid FWIW. My gut feel is Cornell. He is not into frats or big 10 basketball.

Odds are that he won't get into both.

Cornell is very greek as well.

Duke is not in the Big 10.

You are either a troll or the least informed parent on this board.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke is the rich preppy private school of the south.

There is no other rich preppy private school of the south.

Vanderbilt, Emory, Tulane, Washington & Lee...

Maybe you meant there's no other rich, preppy private school in the south so popular with those from other parts of the country.

Way to sneak Tulane in there.

I know, it’s getting so weird.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke is the rich preppy private school of the south.

There is no other rich preppy private school of the south.

Vanderbilt, Emory, Tulane, Washington & Lee...

Maybe you meant there's no other rich, preppy private school in the south so popular with those from other parts of the country.

Way to sneak Tulane in there.

I know, it’s getting so weird.

And W&L

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke is the Harvard of Central North Carolina.

Ha ha!

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Anonymous wrote:Duke is the rich preppy private school of the south.

There is no other rich preppy private school of the south.

Vanderbilt, Emory, Tulane, Washington & Lee...

Maybe you meant there's no other rich, preppy private school in the south so popular with those from other parts of the country.

Way to sneak Tulane in there.

I know, it’s getting so weird.

And W&L

And Emory?

[Anonymous]

Puke on Duke

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one even knows that Penn is an Ivy.

Penn State is an Ivy?

One of my co-workers said her dad told her to go to Penn State instead of Penn b/c no one really knows the difference b/t the two. Wise man.

I’ll translate-

Penn state is where you go to die a miserable long death in a frat house or to watch kids get raped in the showers for 10+ years straight by losers in the and think it’s ‘normal & a okay’.

Penn yields a beautiful old campus with a high crime issue but an incredible education amongst other bright kids.
My kids didn’t choose it but it’s an amazing school. Business school? Rich entitled prepsters to be avoided unless you’re into marrying rich.


Pooping off the balcony onto pledges? Penn State.
Dodging criminals & rich prepsters on your way to an incredible education? U Penn.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one even knows that Penn is an Ivy.

Penn State is an Ivy?

One of my co-workers said her dad told her to go to Penn State instead of Penn b/c no one really knows the difference b/t the two. Wise man.

I’ll translate-

Penn state is where you go to die a miserable long death in a frat house or to watch kids get raped in the showers for 10+ years straight by losers in the and think it’s ‘normal & a okay’.

Penn yields a beautiful old campus with a high crime issue but an incredible education amongst other bright kids.
My kids didn’t choose it but it’s an amazing school. Business school? Rich entitled prepsters to be avoided unless you’re into marrying rich.


Pooping off the balcony onto pledges? Penn State.
Dodging criminals & rich prepsters on your way to an incredible education? U Penn.

I’ll translate-

Penn state is where you go to die a miserable long death in a frat house or to watch kids get raped in the showers for 10+ years straight by losers and think it’s ‘normal & a okay’.

Penn yields a beautiful old campus with a high crime issue but an incredible education amongst other bright kids.
Business school? Rich entitled prepsters to be avoided unless you’re into marrying rich.

In summary...
Pooping off the balcony onto pledges? Penn State.
Dodging criminals & rich prepsters on your way to an incredible education? U Penn.

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Not so. Other schools have something else that gives them a unique identity. Dartmouth is a college in a rural part of Vermont. Columbia is in arguably the best city in the world. Brown appeals to a student with an artsy sensibility. Cornell is like an Ivy/Big Ten hybrid and the students are happy there.

But Penn started out like HYP, and in a major city to boot. And, over time, both the city and the university failed to keep up, and everyone knows it.

Plenty of students turn down Penn for Duke, or apply to Duke but not Penn. And the Duke students are, by far, a happier bunch. But Penn students will never be happy because the vast majority really wanted HYP (or S), and they know that their disappointment is transparent to the world. Nothing will ever make their hurt go away. Not having Wharton on campus for the grinds, or having Duke, Northwestern, or Chicago to look down on. They still went to Penn.

Lol how can we even take you seriously if you dont even know the basics about the ivies?

Hanover, NH might as well be in Vermont - all rural New England.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Serious question - my kid has applied to both Duke and Cornell RD. I think he has a good shot of getting into both. Which one should he pick? He is a STEM kid FWIW. My gut feel is Cornell. He is not into frats or big 10 basketball.

Neither is a Big 10 school. Duke is ACC; Cornell is Ivy. But if your kid is not into frats or college basketball, Cornell is a better pick, especially for engineering.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one even knows that Penn is an Ivy.

Penn State is an Ivy?

One of my co-workers said her dad told her to go to Penn State instead of Penn b/c no one really knows the difference b/t the two. Wise man.

So you must have a very mediocre job then...The only people who dont know the difference between the two are unsophisticated, uneducated or semi-educated people who run in very mediocre circles. Btw those same people cannot name a single ivy past HY(P) and sure have never heard of Duke.

Hit a nerve there, sorry! No, s/he was a math major at Penn State, and we are doing quite well in finance, actually. We have a mix of Ivy, Duke, Stanford, MIT, and then your STEM majors from state schools. I'm glad your circles are so non-mediocre, but unfortunately I think you're living in an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel if that's how you think the world still works.

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Are people actually concerned about crime or is that just code for black people living nearby? I went to Duke and honestly know one person who was the victim of a crime not perpetrated by another student, and it was getting randomly punched in the face. I can’t even recall a car break-in. And that was before downtown Durham transformed.

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Anonymous wrote:Serious question - my kid has applied to both Duke and Cornell RD. I think he has a good shot of getting into both. Which one should he pick? He is a STEM kid FWIW. My gut feel is Cornell. He is not into frats or big 10 basketball.

Neither is a Big 10 school. Duke is ACC; Cornell is Ivy. But if your kid is not into frats or college basketball, Cornell is a better pick, especially for engineering.

I would seriously consider winter tolerance.