<p>MattMom - its pretty ridiculous you consider my comments “foolish, arrogant, and, in fact, somewhat offensive” - I guess you find facts offensive and arrogant. After all, I was just paraphrasing the following websites:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.collegeboard.com%5B/url%5D”>www.collegeboard.com</a>
Duke has average SAT scores about 120 points higher than Davidson…to put it into perspective, gap between Duke and Princeton, Yale, and Stanford is 20, and Duke’s scores are 10 points higher than Penn, 20 higher than Columbia and Brown</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nationalmerit.org/06_annual_report.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nationalmerit.org/06_annual_report.pdf</a>
Duke has 120 National Merit Scholars, Davidson has 8…to put it in perspective, Penn has 100, Columbia has 70, Harvard has 210, Yale has 180, and Dartmouth has 70</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf[/url]”>http://www.wsjclassroomedition.com/pdfs/wsj_college_092503.pdf</a>
Duke is a top 10 feeder school into top biz/med/law schools, Davidson is NOT in the top 50 (unless I missed it somewhere)</p>
<p>There we go MattMom, that should resolve any questions you’ve had about how good Duke is…and again, sorry about the facts disagreeing with you. At the end of the day, your son or daughter will definitely be successful - regardless of whether a Davidson or Duke grad. Plus its nice to see parents vouching for their children’s schools.</p>
<p>Sorry to all if I sound abrasive, I just honestly don’t think Davidson is comparable to Duke in quality. Overrating Davidson is basically underrating Duke, which is why I wanted to make the facts clear to all.</p>