<p>Duke’s math department is less strong than Berkeley’s and Carnegie Mellon’s–and to say that Duke “will give you the better overall experience” is a very Duke thing to say–especially when you have no idea what kind of experience BlizzaP is looking for. What if BlizzaP wants a college experience marked by an extraordinarily diverse student body in an interesting college town near one of the greatest cities in the world? And no, I don’t mean Durham, NC or Pittsburgh, PA.
I went to Duke, and I would say, for myself, Berkeley would have provided a much “better overall experience.”</p>