Anyone have insight on differences between Stanford and Duke?

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@ripemango

And you think that makes Stanford much better than Duke?

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<p>For what it’s worth, Duke’s dean of admissions seems to judge the quality of undergraduate institutions by their cross-admit data:</p>

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According to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Chronicle research, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale effectively comprise the “best of the best” in U.S. academics, and Duke lags behind in almost every category. </p>

<p>Christoph Guttentag, dean of undergraduate admissions, said data indicates that for the classes of 2008 and 2009, about 85 percent of students accepted to Duke and one of the five institutions that fall in the first group of competing schools–a group for which Guttentag uses the acronym “H-Y-P-S-M”–did not choose Duke. </p>

<p>“The numbers vary from year to year but stay in fairly defined ranges,” Guttentag wrote in an e-mail.

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<p>[Duke</a> still step below top schools | The Chronicle](<a href=“http://dukechronicle.com/article/duke-still-step-below-top-schools]Duke”>Duke still step below top schools - The Chronicle)</p>

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@ripemango

High school kids care about name recognition and prestige, because they are idiots.

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<p>This is an overly harsh and frankly, absurd statement. Caring about name recognition and prestige implies “idiocy?” Most Duke students learned about their school due to its name recognition (from basketball) and chose it because it is the most prestigious school in the South. Are they all “idiots?”</p>

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@ripemango

Those 18% who chose Duke over Stanford are making informed choices

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<p>Not necessarily. Just because you chose the less prestigious and selective school doesn’t mean you made the “informed choice.” And conversely, just because you chose the more prestigious and selective school doesn’t mean you made an “uninformed choice.”</p>