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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]duke[/quote]

Duke envy! Honest persons admit Duke is an elite institution with a consistently great basketball team.

Much UVA hate which seems in response to UVA boosters trying to elevate the brand higher than reality.[/quote]

I’m not a hater. My feeling is that any school outside my neighborhood that I’ve heard about at all can do great things for the right students.

But, when I was applying to college, back in the 1980s, and wanting to major in physics, I assumed that Duke, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame and Northwestern were all weaker than places like Tufts, Emory, Wash. U. or Case Western *because* they had Division I sports. It wasn’t till I started reading DCUM, as a parent, that I learned that people thought of Duke, Notre Dame and Vanderbilt as prestigious.

It could be that, outside of the Southeast, Duke takes a hit, with respect to perceptions of academic prestige, because it looks like a basketball team with a university attached. [/quote]

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