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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Duke is not even top ten anymore.  “Status-obsessed families” are going to start treating the school as a safety and stop applying to it as an ED admit. Watch it continue to plummet year after year as those in the know realize that it was wildly overrated and not nearly as good as they thought it was.  Certainly not “cream of the crop.”  [/quote]

Duke has probably been the most overrated school for the past 20 years.  It's literally made a name off of being hard to get into.  What undergraduate programs at Duke are world-class?

It has a world-class medical school and hospital, I'll grant that.  But I'm asking about undergraduate programs.

A Top 10 university should probably have a few undergrad programs that are considered world-class.  Maybe Duke is finally dropping to where it belongs.  I predict the decline will continue.  [/quote]

How does that differ from other schools?  All top schools have made a name off of being difficult admits.  Top universities in the U.S. are overpriced and bloated, but why are you singling out Duke?[/quote]

Singling out Duke because I can't identify an undergraduate program at Duke that is world-class.  It's not hard to do for Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, MIT, Yale, Stanford, UChicago, Penn, CalTech or Nothwestern.  In terms of academic programs, Duke doesn't fit with these 10 schools, yet has been ranked with them for years--until now.    [/quote]

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