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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS recently got off the waitlist at Duke and isn't sure what to do, currently committed to Penn. DS will visit Duke but anyone with experience at both schools? Studying math and statistics.[/quote]

One at each. Very different physical campus and surrounding area atmospheres but very similar top outcomes, MBB recruits at both, both are top law and top med feeders; both have easy to access kind professors, majority small seminar style classes, and both my kids have had no problem getting research as early as freshman year. There are highly competitive yet collaborative peers at both, social /partiers at both(within reason; neither is a party school). Being a sports fan is much more of a thing at Duke (basketball), with over half the undergrads very invested. [/quote]

From the earlier pages, i posted this, as I have a kid at each.
They are very similar in the above ways. Forgot to add both have their corresponding med school on campus, which is a huge plus for premeds as well as engineering (both have lots of collab between med and engineering research groups).
Some people do not care much about weather or proximity to a city, they focus on the education factors, such as peers, class size, professor availability, extent of interdisciplinary focus, opportunities on campus such as arts, music, research and more. They are extremely similar on all these factors. [/quote]

You have described nearly every top 20 school which offer the same outcomes, class sizes (my kid’s Penn classes have been 100+ but maybe that’s STEM), interdisciplinary research opportunities, med school on campus (except Princeton), freshman research opportunities, etc.

Being a Duke sports fan is a massive part of that experience and why it is a clear choice for many.

I guess the moral is that all top 20 schools are similar with each other…other than the dozen reasons that each school is different from each other that somehow don’t matter.[/quote]

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