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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Chicago and undergraduates who want to discuss Foucault in a coffee shop are the outliers here, not Duke.[/quote]

Sure, I was just throwing that out there to show an example of who doesn't like Duke.  There are colleges for those "outlier" undergraduates, and Duke isn't one of them.  Despite being similarly selective, Duke and Chicago are on opposite ends of the spectrum socially.  I don't know what "quieter" interests mean, but for some it might be nerding out over hyper-intellectual topics.

I had another friend who was one of those hyper-intellectual, brilliant types who and she went to Yale.  She did find her niche at Yale eventually, but she found a lot more people who were interested in drinking, partying, who were smart and driven but not particularly intellectual, and who were overall very conventional and it kind of busted her starry-eyed vision of the ivory tower her freshman year.  She found friends, found her niche, did well, and enjoyed the academics, but she wondered if another social environment might have been better overall (more Chicago-y).  She wanted to be an academic, and most of her college friends were interested in networking to become investment bankers.[/quote]

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