<p>this sort of comparison is so silly. i have plenty of friends at brown, have visited it many times, and by and large don’t feel like i’m at a very different place from duke at all. duke has more money, brown is older. that’s the biggest difference i see, along with duke’s more rigid (read: harder) academic structure and brown’s lack there of. my friends at brown have great profs and bad profs, just like i have had great profs and bad profs. honestly, i think i have had a lot more interaction with professors here than they have there but we’re talking about a sample size of like 10. the point is, don’t listen to these crazy people droning on about minute differences and check out the schools yourself. stop focusing on comparing them on a general, unhelpful level (i.e. prestige) and think about where you’d rather be for the next four years and what specific opportunities there are at either place (for example, the duke lemur center, duke hospital, duke marine lab, etc. for duke). you cannot go wrong with this decision…</p>