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[quote=Anonymous]Are there enough truly elite humanities students to filter all the way down to duke?

Honest question.

After hyp, Oxford and Cambridge (for the truly elite humanities kids who can pass their subject matter interview), Chicago, brown, other elite schools in the north east…

…no one thinks of duke and “the humanities”

Iirc, the school was named after a tobacco industrialist!

Someone who studies “art history” at duke isn’t going to be some big academic. They are going to be rich and probably hot and go work at nyc gallery or auction house.

Southern schools were built to educate rich people on managing agrarian economies and later big state schools to educate people for practical matters.

Also, it’s hard to be a “life of the mind” humanist when it’s too warm/sunny. Durham isn’t really the setting for this type of study.

Duke is becoming what it always really was - Jhu/cmu with way hotter students.

The hot students are now fewer in number, that’s the change. 
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