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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is Duke really a dream school? I've always thought of it as just below one. You can't say you went to an Ivy, its STEM programs are just okay, and they are better known for basketball than academics by a big % of the population. [/quote]

It's a solid T20 or even T10 school.
It's better than half of ivies.

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+1 in our circles (Chinese mostly, some Indian) Duke is highly respected and many of the kids would take it over ivies with approval of the parents. I think T20 is rearview for Duke, has been T10 for decades.[/quote]

This is our experience (South Asian) as well. A friend’s son last year turned down two ivies for Duke, full pay for all.[/quote]

Yes, not usually Harvard or Princeton but the rest are fair game to be turned down for Duke in my experience. In particular with my two older kids I would see a big chunk of their classmates/friends/competition peers turning down Cornell, Dartmouth, and Brown for Duke when they had the choice, definitely a sizable majority. I've seen close to a 50-50 split for Duke and Penn/Columbia. Not sure where Yale is in the picture as I haven't seen many kids deciding between the two for STEM as much, my guess would be majority still pick Yale for the historic prestige but that might not hold as much over time. One of my kids turned down Duke for Princeton but would probably have gone to Duke (over Penn and some other top non-ivies) without the Princeton acceptance.[/quote]

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