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[quote=Anonymous]PP whose friend transferred from Duke to Chicago.  I'm glad I'm not the only one who has had the experience of Duke grads being not particularly intellectual, just because it validates my gut feelings about those who I have met...

IMO, it is possible that Duke would be a great place for him.  As with any large, well ranked university, there are always going to be a range of people who attend.  I just think the social vibe at a lot of the good Southern schools (Duke, Vandy, Tulane) as well as some of the super preppy ivies (Dartmouth, for example) are just a turn off for a certain kind of kid.  If you think Chicago might be up his alley, maybe you want to look at places like Wesleyan, Amherst, Northwestern, John's Hopkins (hey, that one is pretty close to home), Oberlin, and Kenyon.  I also wouldn't worry too much about the neighborhood surrounding Chicago.  It borders some very rough areas, but Hyde Park itself is largely very nice.  I have a good friend who grew up there (her dad's a professor at Chicago), and there are parts of the neighborhood that were perfectly safe for us to walk around as a group of teen girls at night.  I'm sure some undergrads have gotten mugged, but there is crime in all urban campuses.  The issue is that the rough ghetto areas are not very far at all from the nice residential areas that are largely professionals, mostly affiliated with the university.[/quote]

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