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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard , Princeton , Yale , Hopkins, Stanford, MIT, Caltech.

All other privates are a waste of money that [b]can be easily outperformed by state flagships[/b].[/quote]

So University of Wyoming over Duke then?[/quote]

What? But consider the fact that only 10% of the incoming freshmen class at Duke is from NC.  While OP posed the question re UVA I think the same holds true for UNC, the state flagship most relevant to Duke.  The overwhelming majority of North Carolinians, when deciding if Duke is worth the extra tuition compared to an education at UNC (OP asked vs UVA), clearly they say no, and I think it could offer similar insight to the UVAvs Duke question.  Quality of education,learning experience, alumni network, national reputation, is Duke worth the insanely more expensive price tag?

Now whether a student wants a small private school education at the college level is an entirely different question.  My cousin and her husband are both principals at NC public high schools in central NC.  Every fall and spring they organize tours of NC colleges for their jrs and srs to visit a group, usually renting buses and seeing 2-3 schools each trip. Students sign up for the trips they want.  They haven't had any demand for Duke in 10 years and last year decided to drop it as an option.  My cousin was fascinated by this.  She said she felt it was in part due to the economic downturn and also to students really taking more control over the financial outlook of taking on student loans and how much things will cost.  For them at least, the price tag was too inflated.

Again OP is talking about cost concerns re UVA vs Duke.  Michelle Singletary of WaPo did a great similar analysis of her daughter's choices of UMD instate vs UNC out of state a few years ago.

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