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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since when did Duke and Penn become comparable. Penn culturally is close Brown and Columbia certainly not anything like Duke.

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No, Penn is more like Harvard than any of the other ivies.  Strongest professional schools and an urban campus that is not NYC.[/quote]

I have kids at multiple ivies and spouse and I went to different ones for undergraduate and law. Penn is indeed closest to H as far as the campus setting goes and proximity to law (on campus) and med center attached(P) or very close(H). Both are adjacent but not in a big city, even down to the pedestrian bridge connecting the campus areas. Penn has more green space than Harvard. Columbia is the only truly urban ivy with almost no green space and actually in the city. Yale is more like Brown based on setting, with New Haven and Providence streets mixed through the campus but no bigger city close by. Princeton is its own small town feel and Dartmouth and Cornell are positively rural, though Cornell is so large it does not have the same rural-mountains college feel as Dartmouth. [/quote]

Largely agree with most of this but Columbia's green space is fairly comparable to Penn. It has the quad. And it is close to Riverside and Central Parks (and Morningside Park, though I wouldn't choose to spend time there).

For whatever reason, I found Cornell to be more gray and dreary than Dartmouth. I spent a lot of time at Cornell and just a few brief visits to Dartmouth so it might have been luck of the draw. Most of my time at Cornell was in the summer yet it was still depressing.

Duke is the quintessential college campus. Beautiful architecture. Lots of green space. Athletic facilities and hospital right on campus. Beautiful gardens right there. Durham is not a major city but Durham plus the Triangle have plenty to offer - good restaurants (Durham is a major foodie destination), bars, shopping, major concerts come through, a major airport, etc.

I know a lot of kids from the northeast corridor who choose Duke because they can feel comfortable there but want at least some change of scenery for college. The world would be a better place if people ventured out of their comfort zone and lived somewhere else at some point (not necessarily just for college - just at some point in their life). I'm from the northeast corridor and have lived elsewhere and cannot stand those who have never left and have knee-jerk insults for the rest of America.[/quote]

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