Duke vs Barrett Honors College (ASU)

txNerd
Fri, 08 Jan 2016 17:08:18 +0000

“ASU is a perfectly respectable school but it doesn’t even come close to being able to provide the opportunities that Duke does.”

What’d be great is to have some actual numbers behind all these generalities. I think many/most have a “common belief” that Duke > ASU/Barrett, so rehashing that (or the converse) really isn’t interesting. I think the OP was really trying to get at some objective way to quantify the additional “value” provided by a Duke BS/A vs an Barrett BS/A.

For instance, is the person who might be at or near the top of their class at Barrett really at a disadvantage to a person who is middle of the road at Duke (assuming this is the more average scenario)? Or to put it another way, do you HAVE to be the cream of the crop at Barrett to sniff the same opportunities that an average Dukie would? We have a notion that being at the top at Duke is likely to create more opportunities than Barrett, but are there any actual numbers or facts to bear this out, or is it just more “well of course man, it’s DUKE!” And of course this is all under the context of moving on to grad school (vs jumping out into the real world right after).