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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You have got to be kidding. Duke, Northwestern and Vandy have always been stronger schools than WashU, Tufts and Case Western. Even back in the ‘80s.[/quote]Vandy is no better than WashU or Emory. Tufts and Case I agree are a step below. [/quote]

While this thread started out as cutting down Schools like Duke and UVA it also illustrates the unwarranted criticism of schools like Tufts. It’s a fine school - basically a SLAC with a few graduate schools but it is regularly compared with larger elite universities. That’s t not what Tufts ever was or is trying to be. Even though it is clearly a highly competitive school based on acceptance rates and current students, family, and alumni are all positive about it, people still try to cut the school down. As with other naysayers referenced above, there are one or two anti-Tufts forum users who feel the need to denigrate the school every chance they get and it’s just tired. Cutting down any of these schools is ridiculous as for the most part they are exceptional learning institutions.  [/quote]

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