| Schools I would (personally) choose over Duke and why:
Harvard (academic)
Yale (academic)
Princeton (academic + fit)
Stanford (academic + fit)
Dartmouth (fit)
Brown (fit)
Amherst (fit)
Schools I would chose Duke over
Penn
Columbia
Northwestern
Chicago
Cornell
Swarthmore
Not sure: Williams, Pomona
(I actually ended up choosing Dartmouth over Duke) |