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04-23-2008, 05:27 AM
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#16 | | Junior Member
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| Oh sry I'll clarify - I chose Cornell over Duke for engineering. Duke had offered a much better aid though. | 
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04-23-2008, 06:18 AM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Europe -> PENN '12 Gender: Male
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| I turned it down for Penn. Really hard decision, I love Duke, especially after the amazing interview I had with an alumna.
Money wasn't an issue though. | |
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04-23-2008, 12:24 PM
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#18 | | Junior Member
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| LOL @ jct.
Elitist much?
This is why I didn't choose Duke. | |
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04-23-2008, 12:57 PM
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#19 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Duke!! Gender: Male
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| I'm at Duke now and love it for many reasons.
However, there are many schools I would still probably turn down Duke for.. either because of personal reasons or prestige reasons.
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Brown, Swarthmore (didn't apply to Yale, Stanford, or Swarthmore last year).. possibly Dartmouth (turned it down last year) these days.
But besides that, Duke is pretty up there.
Knowing what I know about Duke though, to be honest, I would have probably picked D'mouth if I was in the same situation again.. | |
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04-23-2008, 01:32 PM
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#20 | | Member
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| really? i feel like dartmouth and duke share all the same negatives (excessive drinking among some students, more conservative campus, too many future i-bankers and not enough intellectuals) but duke has tons more resources and better weather. i don't really see much of a reason to turn duke down for dartmouth but to each his own. | |
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04-23-2008, 01:51 PM
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#21 | | Member
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| Gave up Duke for Harvard.  | |
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04-23-2008, 03:16 PM
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#22 | | Senior Member
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| incollege totally wrong. Dartmouth's advantage is its LAC like nature (benefits include no TAs, incredible study abroad, more tightknit campus (2000 less undergrads, smaller campus), richer per student, more spent on advising). Also the frat scene is far more northeastern and less intense. The outdoors at Dartmouth are beautiful and a real part of the experience (ski mountain, clean beautiful river, sledding hill, amazing ice skating pond). The Dplan allows for sophomore summer and 2/3 of the student body goes on study abroad.
These reasons and many more are why I would choose Dartmouth over almost any other school in the country. Dartmouth is a very unique school. | |
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04-23-2008, 03:16 PM
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#23 | | New Member
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| incollege88: you think those are negatives??? | |
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04-23-2008, 06:17 PM
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#24 | | Member
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| slipper - how many courses at Duke do you think are taught by TAs? That's a statement I've honestly not heard cast against us before... Recitation and discussion sessions, sure, but the courses themselves - including our required first-year writing course - are either faculty or subject matter experts brought in from industry or practice.
I would also say that Duke, too, has excellent study-abroad programs and partnerships maintained by a very experienced and active office of study abroad. "The outdoors at" Duke are also beautiful and also a real part of the experience.
I am in no way diminishing Dartmouth; I just don't believe this is a zero sum game where Duke needs to be diminished either. | |
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04-23-2008, 07:13 PM
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#25 | | Senior Member
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| Mondo..
"Knowing what I know about Duke though,"
Care to share or direct to a previous post? | |
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04-23-2008, 07:38 PM
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#26 | | Senior Member
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| Lol it says in his location "Duke!!" ... so i'd say its a safe bet to say that he's a student there. | |
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04-23-2008, 09:31 PM
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#27 | | Junior Member
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| Agree with DukeEGR. | |
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04-23-2008, 10:00 PM
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04-24-2008, 12:42 AM
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| I'm an Economics and Political Science major at Duke, and I have never had a TA teach me anything...I avoid taking small classes because they are usually more writing intensive, but those are all taught by professors as well. | |
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04-24-2008, 12:15 PM
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#30 | | Junior Member
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| slipper, exactly the reasons why I chose Dartmouth over Duke. I think lots of kids have these two colleges to choose from, and I don't think you can go wrong either way. Though, I would have picked Duke over Berkeley and Hopkins any day.
Oh and if anyone wanted the "flawed" NY Times cross-admit link here it is The New York Times > Week in Review > Image > Collegiate Matchups: Predicting Student Choices | |
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