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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to Duke for grad school. It was a great place for grad school. I didn't think I would have liked it for undergrad and neither of my kids did either when we visited. It is spread out, has a very elitist, country club feel, and the admissions officer was quite arrogant when he gave his talk. Duke has smarter, harder-working kids than in the past, but still isn't an especially intellectual place.  It is more like a traditional "fun" college experience than other academically elite institutions.  Most people who go there love it although many people do not like Duke alums at all for many reasons, including the clubbiness and self satisfaction that some have. Many of my classmates send their kids to Duke and they for the most part are corporate insider-type people who are good at networking and who gave a lot of money to the school.  All that said, I loved my time there in grad school.

It is different from Ivy League and other older schools because it isn't that old, it's Southern, and it doesn't have the same continuous tradition of top-notch academics that its current counterparts have. This means Duke has a new feel to the school compared to Ivy League schools, and more of a new-money feel to it (tobacco built as it is).  On the plus side, people who work there are super nice and the weather is not harsh and the community is generally more pleasant than just about any place I've lived in the US. Duke used to be a low-stress place but that has changed inside the school along with higher test scores and lower acceptance rate.

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I went to Princeton and had friends at Duke.  I remember visiting them during a spring break when there were still snow flurries in NJ and by the time I got to Durham there were students lying on the quad in the sun.  That made quite an impression.

But the frats there did seem more hard-core than the eating clubs at Princeton.  More drinking and even preppier attire.   [/quote]

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