Harvard vs Duke AB

TopTier
Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:30:00 +0000

Okay, I’m a Dukie, but I write this answer as dispassionately as possible. Duke provides a few – EXCEPTIONALLY COMPETITIVE – merit scholarships (the Ivies have none). These are unbelievable opportunities:

1. They pay generously for essentially everything associated with undergraduate school, not just full tuition, room/board/living expenses, all fees, and so forth, but also EXTENSIVE, FULLY FUNDED additional opportunities (overseas study, funded summer projects (service, research, and academic), and MUCH more). Financially, there is no comparative deal that I that I’m aware of.

2. A B Duke scholars (among a few others) also receive a great deal of individualized attention and mentoring on campus; they have a “special stature” throughly their four residential undergraduate years.

3. The selection is so competitive (and Duke is a top ten undergraduate school) that many professional and postgraduate opportunities are made far easier (for example, in aggregate Duke ranks somewhere in the top ten in “highly esteemed” postgraduate scholarships (Churchills, Rhodes, and so forth); most of these are received by merit scholarship recipients, obviously including A B Duke honorees).

Clearly, Harvard is an outstanding university: however, I honesty suggest that the totality of advantages associated with an A B Duke is VERY difficult to equal, at any institution.