Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 10:44     Subject: Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
Anonymous wrote:Duke is more Christian(including Catholics) than most Ivies with possible exception of Dartmouth. Read less year on a Duke site that Catholics at 23-25% of undergrads are single largest group believe Jewish enrollment 7-8 % mainline Protestants were <30%. Duke was founded by Methodists and Duke Divinity graduates a lot of Methodist ministers. Also a couple of Methodist leaders(Bishops?) are on the Duke Board of Trustees. The Gothic Duke Chapel is the focal point of the west campus. Amazing architectural building.


I went to Duke school and my husband then boyfriend was a Divinity student. Even though half my friends were from the Div School, attending Duke was not a religious experience.... at all. Not even a little bit. Hillel is active as are many student organizations, like any other university.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 23:32     Subject: Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
Duke is more Christian(including Catholics) than most Ivies with possible exception of Dartmouth. Read less year on a Duke site that Catholics at 23-25% of undergrads are single largest group believe Jewish enrollment 7-8 % mainline Protestants were <30%. Duke was founded by Methodists and Duke Divinity graduates a lot of Methodist ministers. Also a couple of Methodist leaders(Bishops?) are on the Duke Board of Trustees. The Gothic Duke Chapel is the focal point of the west campus. Amazing architectural building.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 22:35     Subject: Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
Two year old thread
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 21:22     Subject: Re:Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
Anonymous wrote:I think of Duke as being more religious than Penn or Cornell. Is that true these days?


Nope.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 21:19     Subject: Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
Anonymous wrote:Do NOT go to Cornell for public policy. They have many fine programs, but their policy program is not good at all.



Are you talking about the Brooks School or the political science program at the School of Arts & Science.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 21:19     Subject: Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
Cornell and UPenn are both now test required while Duke is still TO. If you don’t got the test scores then your only choice might be Duke.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 21:04     Subject: Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
Yikes, as a proud Dukie it’s bad enough to be compared to Penn, now Cornell. What’s next Brown and Columbia. There goes the neighborhood.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 20:49     Subject: Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
Anonymous wrote:Cornell isn’t test required until next year?


Students who are applying now for the fall of 2026 must submit a test score.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 19:56     Subject: Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
Anonymous wrote:One factor that hasn't been mentioned is that Cornell and Penn are test required while Duke is test optional. Duke's applicant pool is therefore littered with rich kids who went TO because they couldn't cracked 1400 but could buy their way to strong ECs/essays. Cornell and Penn would have fewer of these kids. This, along with Cornell having the largest incoming class and the highest ED acceptance rate followed by Penn and Duke, makes Cornell the best ED target followed by Penn and Duke for a high stats kid. That is, if the kid's primary goal is to get admitted to one of these three schools.


You know Cornell reduced ED percentage, right?
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 19:56     Subject: Re:Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My son is at Duke and he absolutely loves it! He applied ED to Duke for its outstanding BioMedical Engineering Program. However, Duke ECON students are highly recruited and Sanford is widely known in the political science and policy circles. Plus there is a BIG difference going to class on a spacious, beautiful campus rather than the inner-city of Philadelphia. Cornell has a very nice campus, as well, but Ithica is nothing special and is in the middle of no where. Durham isn't a booming city either, but the whole technology triangle area is rapidly growing.


+1 My kid is a junior and he totalllly loves Duke! Public policy is ranked #1 nationwide. Econ dept is highly ranked too! If you sure abt Duke then go for ED!! Penn is great too, slighlty easier admit than Duke


Other than the joke Niche rankings, I don’t see Duke ranked #1 for public policy. It’s also not top ten for Economics either. Stanford is better than Duke in just about every comparable discipline. Why do Dukies always overrate the academics of the school?


Yeah. wtf?
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 19:51     Subject: Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
Cornell isn’t test required until next year?
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 19:45     Subject: Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
One factor that hasn't been mentioned is that Cornell and Penn are test required while Duke is test optional. Duke's applicant pool is therefore littered with rich kids who went TO because they couldn't cracked 1400 but could buy their way to strong ECs/essays. Cornell and Penn would have fewer of these kids. This, along with Cornell having the largest incoming class and the highest ED acceptance rate followed by Penn and Duke, makes Cornell the best ED target followed by Penn and Duke for a high stats kid. That is, if the kid's primary goal is to get admitted to one of these three schools.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 19:12     Subject: Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
Anonymous wrote:If interested in public policy, definitely Duke. Their program is the top.


What?! Look at public policy at other major public and private universities. Many many quality programs. These dukies are just something else on this board.
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 19:09     Subject: Re:Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My son is at Duke and he absolutely loves it! He applied ED to Duke for its outstanding BioMedical Engineering Program. However, Duke ECON students are highly recruited and Sanford is widely known in the political science and policy circles. Plus there is a BIG difference going to class on a spacious, beautiful campus rather than the inner-city of Philadelphia. Cornell has a very nice campus, as well, but Ithica is nothing special and is in the middle of no where. Durham isn't a booming city either, but the whole technology triangle area is rapidly growing.


+1 My kid is a junior and he totalllly loves Duke! Public policy is ranked #1 nationwide. Econ dept is highly ranked too! If you sure abt Duke then go for ED!! Penn is great too, slighlty easier admit than Duke


Other than the joke Niche rankings, I don’t see Duke ranked #1 for public policy. It’s also not top ten for Economics either. Stanford is better than Duke in just about every comparable discipline. Why do Dukies always overrate the academics of the school?


Seriously, it is overrated
Anonymous
Post 09/08/2025 19:04     Subject: Should I ED to Duke or Penn or Cornell ?
Stuff is barely relevant from last years cycle, much less two years ago. Instead of searching particular school names and coming up with old threads, they should start a new one. Weird to bump up with an opinion.