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[quote=Anonymous]I'm from NC and went to UNC Chapel Hill for undergrad and to Duke for grad school. First a gentle correction - I have never seen the acronym UNCCH...it's either UNC or UNC Chapel Hill, or "Carolina". If you say UNC only they assume you mean Chapel Hill.

Within NC, honestly the schools are viewed by how the basketball team is doing or this is all I remember. I also left NC at 22 and have lived in DC/Maryland my whole adult life except for 2 yrs in my late 20s when I got my master's at Duke. Academically, UNC is the top state school and Duke is the top private school. Wake Forest and Davidson are top notch private schools after Duke. But to be honest, the private schools have students from all over the country while the state schools are predominately in-state students. I don't remember Wake Forest students having a particular reputation. Duke was widely hated (mainly as the enemy basketball team) and the stereotype is that all Duke students are from New Jersey. This is obviously not true...but in general North Carolinians think the worst nightmare place in the US is New Jersey. This is how I grew up thinking about Duke, but then I went there for grad school because I knew it was a great school (and I loved my time there) and my husband is from New Jersey, which I've come to love, too.[/quote]

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