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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you visited both? If not, I highly recommend you do that if your child gets into both. They are both great schools but the environments are very different. I loved Duke but my child did not like Durham and strongly preferred Penn due to its city location. Child also noted that Duke and UVA felt far more alike than Duke and Penn. [/quote] Duke is not quite the intellectual vibe of Penn. Admitted days made it obvious: current students and professors focused on academics at Penn, collaboration, study groups, and high % involved in student research. Duke mentioned sports especially basketball much more than academics, and the undergrad research participation, which was asked by a student, was much lower than Penn, Princeton, MIT, Stanford. That being said, med, law, phd outcomes for top places are similar: both feed into T5 programs[/quote]
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