Duke Status-Centric Culture

Tyler09
Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:16:15 +0000

^Your attitude is proving that everyones concerns were valid. I rarely see people on other school threads attack concerned prospective students in such a defensive manner. But, I’ll take your advice, and not generalize the student body based on your behavior.

This is something that multiple people from a wide variety of sources say has come up among the concerns of current and former students.

I’ll ask the second part of my question again, If this reputation is unwarranted at Duke then why have so many people consistently misinterpreted it this way?

Particularly, Mondo’s experience after escaping that culture is very troubling to me. I would not want to feel like I was “missing out” by extricating myself from this type of situation. Could anybody else shed some light?