It’s one of the top regrets of my life that I fell under the spell of the beauty of Chapel Hill - many years ago - and thus picked Carolina over Duke.

Anonymous wrote:It’s misleading to label Duke as T10. It’s more like #10-15.

I'm not much of a Duke fan but according to the rankings that hold the most weight, Duke is almost always above the 10-15 range. What is the 10-15 based on?

Anonymous wrote:Duke are The Blue Devils for a reason. Founded by Northerners. It's a more Northern-feeling school benefiting from some aspects of the South.

You could not be more wrong. Have you ever been to Duke? The Dukes are interred in Duke Chapel. There is a lot not to like about Duke and I am not responding to defend it. The Duke story is a Southern story. Wash Duke came home to Durham with a 5 dollar coin given to him by Lincoln because he was a POW. That coin bankrolled a hand rolled tobacco business. Wash Duke - a widower - walked home to save money - with his daughter caring for the family. His son Buck took incredible risk and built a machine rolled tobacco business upon which he became a global monopolist. Buck was acutely aware of the South's challenges and built Duke Power, hospitals including Duke hospital, and endowed not only Duke but Davidson and Johnson C Smith in Charlotte. Duke built West Campus in 1924 and acquired Trinity College established in 1842 ((East Campus). The story of the Dukes is unparalleled in US history and it is a story of the South - a school founded by Southern Methodist. A book called the Dukes of Durham by Robert Durden explains every detail. I don't think there is a school with more contradictions than Duke - it makes the place hard to describe. It is true Northerners flock to the school and the school always wants more North Carolina natives. UNC is hard to compete against on price in state.

Again, Duke is a popular place in the North - wearing Duke gear in Long Island grabs attention and Duke is certainly more popular in NY than here. But is a place borne from the South.

It’s misleading to label Duke as T10. It’s more like #10-15.

When I was applying I had multiple alums express concerns regarding race relations on campus. It sounded weird enough that I was out.

Wildly popular at our west coast girls’ school this year. 5 girls are applying early. I’m baffled because it was never a place we send anyone. I think these are girls who are super smart but unhooked so working around classmates who are sports recruits and legacies. None of those are applying to Duke this year so it’s very popular as an early school that’s fairly large, highly-ranked, and non-binding.

Anonymous wrote:Duke are The Blue Devils for a reason. Founded by Northerners. It's a more Northern-feeling school benefiting from some aspects of the South.

??? The Duke family were native North Carolinians with deep roots in Durham, North Carolina. Even when J.B. Duke, heir to Washington Duke's tobacco fortune and the founder of American Tobacco, moved his residence to New Jersey/New York, most of his tobacco mills, textile mills, and energy plants (i.e. his industrial base) still remained in North Carolina. Doris Duke could properly be called a Yankee heiress, but J.B. Duke, the one who endowed Trinity College into Duke, was more of a Southern nouveau riche robber baron than a Yankee industrialist.

Duke has a high snob appeal. Several celebrity kids go/have gone there

Duke are The Blue Devils for a reason. Founded by Northerners. It's a more Northern-feeling school benefiting from some aspects of the South.

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Anonymous wrote:Umm - great school, great weather, great basketball, great quality of life.

+1 it seems pretty clear to me

over 90K a year. Going in-state

All the T10s are pretty generous with financial aid so it really depends what your situation is. But regardless there are lots of people willing to pay full and more for Duke

More money than sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Umm - great school, great weather, great basketball, great quality of life.

+1 it seems pretty clear to me

over 90K a year. Going in-state

Duke is private. In state is meaningless.

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Anonymous wrote:UVA just beat Duke at sportsball today.

Football

No, this wasn’t like the World Cup. The players wore helmets and had big shoulders. The ball was kind of like a brown egg but big.

Anonymous wrote:UVA just beat Duke at sportsball today.

Football

UVA just beat Duke at sportsball today.

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Anonymous wrote:Umm - great school, great weather, great basketball, great quality of life.

+1 it seems pretty clear to me

over 90K a year. Going in-state

All the T10s are pretty generous with financial aid so it really depends what your situation is. But regardless there are lots of people willing to pay full and more for Duke

No, that is incorrect and you are confusing financial aid with merit. Two different troughs. And we received zero merit and zero financial aid through fafsa. Classic donut hole family. Go look at what the ivies actually promise for FINANCIAL aid - you have to have a household income that is very low for the average reader here. That leaves merit and most of the ivies don't give it because they don't need to.