Dartmouth compared to Duke reputation wise

Indecision1707 · 04-05-2009, 10:59 AM

So Dartmouth ripped my heart out with a deferal early, then stepped on it with a reject in the regular round. Then the rest of the Ivies came along and followed suit. (Yale, Harvard, Penn-Wharton, Columbia...WL Brown). Yet I wound up getting into Duke. So I was wondering what people thought about Duke's reputation compared to that of Dartmouth or the rest of the Ivies. Do people really regard it highly or is it like a step down?

vibragreen · 04-05-2009, 11:00 AM

Why do you care? It's a good school.

Indecision1707 · 04-05-2009, 11:16 AM

Because I'm spending 200k on it thats why

natim1 · 04-10-2009, 06:11 PM

That is a darn good reason. Duke is without a doubt a step down from the Ivies. I would rather go to University of Chicago, which to me (and the Princeton Review), is a step up from Duke.

slipper1234 · 04-10-2009, 10:51 PM

Don't listen to that at all. If you look at placement stats, recruiting, etc Duke is right up there with the non-HYPS Ivies. Definitely an amazing school (and IMO way more balanced than Chicago). Its not a step down. Congrats!

Humboldt · 04-11-2009, 09:54 AM

Dartmouth offers much better undergraduate education in many ways.

Indecision1707 · 04-12-2009, 10:30 AM

Thanks slipper1234 makes me feel better about my choice

Gunn · 04-12-2009, 11:51 AM

Obviously, Dartmouth is a better school but Duke is almost as good as most ivy schools. Congrats on getting in to a great school!

Xanatos · 04-12-2009, 12:05 PM

Dude, you get to go to a school that looks like this:

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That's awesome!

Naomi2491 · 05-03-2009, 03:07 PM

Duke is not worse than the non-HYP ivies! It is very well known and highly regarded, and it's def not worse than uchicago; I think it's more broad and better. It's more prestigious than Cornell, def. and even upenn. I would place it at Dartmouth's level. it has a 84% med school acceptance rate and 98% law school rate for undergrads, compared with 70% med for cornell. So, there you go :]

Chief56 · 05-03-2009, 06:06 PM

grad school acceptance is no way to rank a school blindly. You can get a great education at anywhere a student of your caliber would go.

amplifiar842 · 05-03-2009, 08:47 PM

Duke is ranked higher in the country than some of the Ivy Leagues. It's definitely the best university in the South and it's highly regarded around the world.