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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UVA has a 30% admit rate.  Duke is 10%.  Of course Duke is better.  If cost is not an issue, the choice is obvious.[/quote]

Admit rates are simply a result of marketing efforts.  You need to look at the profile of the class and the post-graduation outcomes to get a measure of "better". [/quote]

[b]Class profile?  The overwhelming majority of UVA students could would not get admitted to Duke.  Look at the Common Data set.[/quote][/b]

True.  PP doesn't understand she is comparing apples to oranges.  You can't compare a SLACs admit rate to the flagship of a state.  The competition for UVA is fierce, especially from Nova where it seems that the acceptance rate is more like 1% from McLean or Langley High School.  The current class has 286 with perfect SATs, 93 percent were in the top 10% of their class, etc.  I was on college confidential watching the international students play "chance me" for UVA during EA and regular admissions.  The stats of rejected kids was astonishing.  DC didn't even consider applying to Duke (too provincial; town and gown problems; the stupidity of faculty reaction to the Duke Lacrosse incident; overall liberal stupidity; too rich WASPy; too expensive and we're in the donut hole) but got into the real Duke - Princeton, UVA, GA Tech, Cal Tech, etc. and picked UVA and never looked back.[/quote]

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