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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP. Resurrecting this thread because decision is still out there. DC has visited both. But here's something I didn't ask because I wanted broader insight to start:

Does being an athlete (recruited) change the calculus in this decision? There are also 2-3 other schools in play (some with offers and some not), but these are the top choices (and offers are there).

DC has the stats to get in without athletics, although it would then be more of a lottery.  But GPA and test scores are solidly in the middle of the current student profile. Honestly liked both very much, which is interesting because they do have different vibes, but both vibes are, in their opinion, great. If we had visited in January, I suspect this decision would be being made based on weather.
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Duke for an athlete. You buried the lede.[/quote]

You have to be very good to be a recruited athlete at Duke.  You would absolutely know whether you were in the game prior to your senior year.  By the way, although the IVY League is not Power 5, you have to be good to be recruited there, too.  But for many sports Duke goes after the tops in the nation. If you do get recruited, I view the AD as extremely competent and most of us alums think that way.  [/quote]

OP here. Understood. Offers are there, this is a high school junior. [/quote]

Duke takes care of its athletes. Premed at Duke is phenomenal because the hospital is right on campus and the science research opportunities are right on campus, with professors who welcome students into their labs. Do not underestimate the convenience factor for an athlete: On campus opportunities for premeds really helps with time management as an athlete and a non-athlete. 
Depending on the sport, many pre-med athletes at Duke take a slightly lower load during the sports semester and take premed courses at Duke taught by same profs in the summer, to focus and get the As. I have a non-athlete, non-premed Dukie and they love the intellectual vibe and work-hard play hard environment with small seminar style classes. It is more social than Brown but is not a "party" school like some state schools. The endowment resources per student are insane; an athlete there will already have more resources than the nons. [/quote]

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