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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great place for privileged whites who love the "southern" style.[/quote]

This.

Even duke players, which are the royalty of duke, don't like it.

"Thank you very much, for reminding me of the reason why I left Duke. People like you can not and will not ever understand my situation. I’m sure daddy worked very hard to send your rich self to college. While real people struggle. I would also like to extend an invitation for you not to waste your or my time ever agin. Never being considered a part of your posh group of yuppies really hurts me to the heart. Yeah, right. Because I don’t care about you or your alumni." - Elton Brand

If you want to go into strategy consulting or banking and can't get into Penn or Dartmouth and are a white 'bro' or wannabe 'bro' and like bro culture - duke is your school.

Or if you want to do BME and can't get into JHU.

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My husband is as far from a 'bro' as you can get, and also very far from strategy consulting or banking, and he went to Duke and loved it. (He is white, however.) Sounds like a nice enough place, though from his description and other descriptions here, I don't see anything that distinguishes it from other Ivy or Ivy-caliber schools other than the weather and basketball scene. That's not at all to say it's bad, more that they are all pretty similar at some level. I went to Yale and what another poster described regarding race relations and stratification at Duke is what I experienced at Yale. My sister had a similar tale regarding Penn. I think it's pretty common.

Duke is definitely an excellent school academically. If your kid loves it and can get in, and you can afford it or get good financial aid, why not. The alumni network seems to be pretty strong, which is a plus. [/quote]

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