<p>Duke has a few named scholarships but very, very few. If you’re still asking about the age-old question of whether it’s worth going into huge debt for an elite school rather than going debt-free to your in-state public school, you have to weight the expected payoffs and experiences, long term, with the risks and costs. Having gone to and graduated from Duke engineering when I myself could have gone even beyond full ride to my in-state public school, I will say that I wouldn’t trade my experiences there for anything, period, and it has led to me where I am now. But I also don’t have $200,000 in debt…is it worth that in debt? Hmm…probably not, to be perfectly honest. It’s such a monumental risk to take, and if you’re going to continue in graduate school, you’re going to go farther down the rabbit hole. That’s not considering future mortgages and other real-life stuff that will require you to go into debt. I’m obviously a huge Duke fan since it’s my alma mater but, loyalties aside, I’ll be the first to tell you that you better think long and hard about decision, especially when considering programs that Duke might not necessarily be world renowned for. p.s. what kind of school would eliminate their comp sci program? That’s kind of, um, like the fastest growing sector in…the US? I’d like to know who thought that was a good decision</p>