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Anonymous wrote:Duke shines only because it is in a bad locale. The American south is known more for tobacco than intellectual vigor! If it were in New England, Duke will mostly just be an also-ran. Sorry!

Does the South still even produce tobacco? I think you got mixed up with the 13 colonies. Economic wealth has moved painfully down South and West and is draining New England and parts of the midwest.

Ummm. Women's autonomy and basic rights are still there in the NE. I'd be hesitant to send a kid down south, not to mention global warming and the FRICKIN' HEAT. 90 degrees and humid as hEll with swamp *ss at an October football game isn't nice.

Global warming is sadly effecting us off, not sure why we're talking about shit weather when DC and Virginia are swampy, heat-loving regions. I also never worried much about getting pregnant in college, let alone that being a concern for my child. You seem like a very paranoid person.

Fall & Spring in New England is vastly different than Fall and Spring in Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, Georgia, etc. Summers are getting hot everywhere.

Pumpkin patches in the south in 90 degree heat and humidity: you can keep it.

Oh no. Your kid will have to drink water on their way to their class at an elite institution with 12 billion dollars, how pitiful. I don't know why you people go on threads to shit on the states of these colleges, just get off and go to your thread about some new england school in a dying town with no industry that you love.

+1 Let's be honest, when application seasons come most of these posters would clamber over each other for their kid to have a spot at Duke.

Let's be honest. NE and midwest are losing badly to the South. That will not stop but it could slow but I doubt it.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke shines only because it is in a bad locale. The American south is known more for tobacco than intellectual vigor! If it were in New England, Duke will mostly just be an also-ran. Sorry!

Does the South still even produce tobacco? I think you got mixed up with the 13 colonies. Economic wealth has moved painfully down South and West and is draining New England and parts of the midwest.

Ummm. Women's autonomy and basic rights are still there in the NE. I'd be hesitant to send a kid down south, not to mention global warming and the FRICKIN' HEAT. 90 degrees and humid as hEll with swamp *ss at an October football game isn't nice.

Global warming is sadly effecting us off, not sure why we're talking about shit weather when DC and Virginia are swampy, heat-loving regions. I also never worried much about getting pregnant in college, let alone that being a concern for my child. You seem like a very paranoid person.

Fall & Spring in New England is vastly different than Fall and Spring in Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, Georgia, etc. Summers are getting hot everywhere.

Pumpkin patches in the south in 90 degree heat and humidity: you can keep it.

Oh no. Your kid will have to drink water on their way to their class at an elite institution with 12 billion dollars, how pitiful. I don't know why you people go on threads to shit on the states of these colleges, just get off and go to your thread about some new england school in a dying town with no industry that you love.

+1 Let's be honest, when application seasons come most of these posters would clamber over each other for their kid to have a spot at Duke.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke shines only because it is in a bad locale. The American south is known more for tobacco than intellectual vigor! If it were in New England, Duke will mostly just be an also-ran. Sorry!

Does the South still even produce tobacco? I think you got mixed up with the 13 colonies. Economic wealth has moved painfully down South and West and is draining New England and parts of the midwest.

Ummm. Women's autonomy and basic rights are still there in the NE. I'd be hesitant to send a kid down south, not to mention global warming and the FRICKIN' HEAT. 90 degrees and humid as hEll with swamp *ss at an October football game isn't nice.

Global warming is sadly effecting us off, not sure why we're talking about shit weather when DC and Virginia are swampy, heat-loving regions. I also never worried much about getting pregnant in college, let alone that being a concern for my child. You seem like a very paranoid person.

Fall & Spring in New England is vastly different than Fall and Spring in Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, Georgia, etc. Summers are getting hot everywhere.

Pumpkin patches in the south in 90 degree heat and humidity: you can keep it.

Oh no. Your kid will have to drink water on their way to their class at an elite institution with 12 billion dollars, how pitiful. I don't know why you people go on threads to shit on the states of these colleges, just get off and go to your thread about some new england school in a dying town with no industry that you love.

This precisely. All the climate change optics here are hilarious when these people's children are wealthy and suffer least form the climate crisis.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke shines only because it is in a bad locale. The American south is known more for tobacco than intellectual vigor! If it were in New England, Duke will mostly just be an also-ran. Sorry!

Does the South still even produce tobacco? I think you got mixed up with the 13 colonies. Economic wealth has moved painfully down South and West and is draining New England and parts of the midwest.

Ummm. Women's autonomy and basic rights are still there in the NE. I'd be hesitant to send a kid down south, not to mention global warming and the FRICKIN' HEAT. 90 degrees and humid as hEll with swamp *ss at an October football game isn't nice.

Global warming is sadly effecting us off, not sure why we're talking about shit weather when DC and Virginia are swampy, heat-loving regions. I also never worried much about getting pregnant in college, let alone that being a concern for my child. You seem like a very paranoid person.

Fall & Spring in New England is vastly different than Fall and Spring in Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, Georgia, etc. Summers are getting hot everywhere.

Pumpkin patches in the south in 90 degree heat and humidity: you can keep it.

Oh no. Your kid will have to drink water on their way to their class at an elite institution with 12 billion dollars, how pitiful. I don't know why you people go on threads to shit on the states of these colleges, just get off and go to your thread about some new england school in a dying town with no industry that you love.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke shines only because it is in a bad locale. The American south is known more for tobacco than intellectual vigor! If it were in New England, Duke will mostly just be an also-ran. Sorry!

Does the South still even produce tobacco? I think you got mixed up with the 13 colonies. Economic wealth has moved painfully down South and West and is draining New England and parts of the midwest.

Ummm. Women's autonomy and basic rights are still there in the NE. I'd be hesitant to send a kid down south, not to mention global warming and the FRICKIN' HEAT. 90 degrees and humid as hEll with swamp *ss at an October football game isn't nice.

Global warming is sadly effecting us off, not sure why we're talking about shit weather when DC and Virginia are swampy, heat-loving regions. I also never worried much about getting pregnant in college, let alone that being a concern for my child. You seem like a very paranoid person.

Fall & Spring in New England is vastly different than Fall and Spring in Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, Georgia, etc. Summers are getting hot everywhere.

Pumpkin patches in the south in 90 degree heat and humidity: you can keep it.

The East coast bias literally turns so many moms' brain to mush. No the wealthy students of Duke aren't living a tortured life in North Carolina. I'd love to see the faces of moms if we spent exhaustive amounts of times on forum posts for the ivies discussing slavery and their history of eugenics. Hell UVA has a pretty close history with slavery, just because it's not aptly named "Washington and Lee" doesn't mean it hasn't benefited from terribly exploitative and morally bankrupt American institutions. Frankly, the south is a heck of a lot more diverse than Rhode Island or Connecticut and your kid will be fine, especially in North Carolina.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke shines only because it is in a bad locale. The American south is known more for tobacco than intellectual vigor! If it were in New England, Duke will mostly just be an also-ran. Sorry!

Does the South still even produce tobacco? I think you got mixed up with the 13 colonies. Economic wealth has moved painfully down South and West and is draining New England and parts of the midwest.

Ummm. Women's autonomy and basic rights are still there in the NE. I'd be hesitant to send a kid down south, not to mention global warming and the FRICKIN' HEAT. 90 degrees and humid as hEll with swamp *ss at an October football game isn't nice.

Global warming is sadly effecting us off, not sure why we're talking about shit weather when DC and Virginia are swampy, heat-loving regions. I also never worried much about getting pregnant in college, let alone that being a concern for my child. You seem like a very paranoid person.

Any prediction on what Duke will look like this year for ED?

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Anonymous wrote:Duke shines only because it is in a bad locale. The American south is known more for tobacco than intellectual vigor! If it were in New England, Duke will mostly just be an also-ran. Sorry!

Does the South still even produce tobacco? I think you got mixed up with the 13 colonies. Economic wealth has moved painfully down South and West and is draining New England and parts of the midwest.

Ummm. Women's autonomy and basic rights are still there in the NE. I'd be hesitant to send a kid down south, not to mention global warming and the FRICKIN' HEAT. 90 degrees and humid as hEll with swamp *ss at an October football game isn't nice.

Anonymous wrote:Duke shines only because it is in a bad locale. The American south is known more for tobacco than intellectual vigor! If it were in New England, Duke will mostly just be an also-ran. Sorry!

Does the South still even produce tobacco? I think you got mixed up with the 13 colonies. Economic wealth has moved painfully down South and West and is draining New England and parts of the midwest.

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Anonymous wrote:Too bad those Southern dullards keep creating new jobs for college graduates—something New England struggles to do.

South has led the nation in new jobs creation.

Not to mention the south's progressive stand on women's health!

I guess this matters if you think the average Duke or T20 level applicant is getting knocked up in college...
Also the average Ivy+ student can pay for a flight to get reproducitve healthcare, hell the school will give you an emergency grant to fly out. Who this really effects are the poor students, who aren't at Duke and aren't in these massive Southern flagships.

Anonymous wrote:Duke shines only because it is in a bad locale. The American south is known more for tobacco than intellectual vigor! If it were in New England, Duke will mostly just be an also-ran. Sorry!

This is ridiculous. Duke has a large endowment, one of the best medical schools in the country, among the best in law and business and public policy as well. It also has a reputation for buying top notch professors, unsettling some. It remains as brash and unique as when Buck Duke founded it in 1924 (Trinity College much earlier).

Rather than make foolish statements, I suggest reading Professor Durden’s The Dukes of Durham. I could then understand everything I didn’t and did like about the school. Duke is not easy to digest but its success is no accident.

I remember the Christian Laettner basketball days - one of the best college players ever and easily one of the most hated. It was no accident he succeeded at Duke. He fit in with the arrogant upstart culture while at the same time dedicated to excellence. Duke in microcosm.

Anonymous wrote:The main reason Duke saw a huge bump in applications this past year is because they instated a new policy that provides full tuition grants for admitted undergraduate student residents of North Carolina and South Carolina whose families have a total income of $150,000 or less. You can read more about it here: https://financialaid.duke.edu/initiative-students-carolinas/

We attended an admissions tour in April 2024 and the speaker shared this information, along with the fact that they had seen a big increase in applicants, likely attributing it to this new policy.

We addressed this in this thread last year.