Duke vs Barrett Honors College (ASU)

flyertalk01
Sun, 10 Jan 2016 21:43:42 +0000

I agree with @txNerd and will go a bit further. Deciding on a college is a complicated task filled with nuance and it is meaningless to use hyperbolic descriptions like “ludicrous”, “laughably absurd”, and “doesn’t even come close”. It is not so clear cut to judge whether one school obviously provides more opportunities than another, especially when there are so many ways you can measure opportunities.

Duke has a world class and well-deserved reputation of providing lots of post-graduate opportunities for its students. But Barrett/ASU also regularly places its students in the top graduate schools. Maybe @IBsciencelife wants to get a Fulbright research fellowship to get a jump start on graduate school research. ASU performs fantastically well in [winning[/url] Fulbright research grants. In some metrics, ASU [url=https://asunow.asu.edu/content/asu-bests-competition-and-court]does better](Top Producers of U.S. Fulbright Students by Type of Institution, 2012-13) than Duke.

This is not to say that ASU is better than Duke. There are plenty of other metrics in which Duke beats ASU. But the main point I’m trying to make is that it is foolhardy to rely on outdated assumptions like ASU is a worse school that is clearly going to provide fewer opportunities than a traditionally elite school like Duke.