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<p>Hey, research isn’t really academics. Yes you apply academics into research but research isn’t ever a academic curriculum. No where in a school are you required to do a research. Plus a lot of the academic research are for graduate schools students and most goes to professors that research for their own. Little goes to the students at all. Most of the money that goes for students are from their endowment. The research money a school gets doesn’t mean that a school is much academically smarter I have to say. Look at Caltech, they get much less research money than JHU but (if I have to go into ranking which I hate) their Biology AND Chemistry is way better than JHU. Thus you can’t say that Hopkins is a stronger school just because they get funding for research.</p>
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Again if you consider the fact that pretty much 90-100% of the research go to graduate and professional school research, then saying that research dollars judges academic strength of undergrads is totally irrelevant. I mean schools use their endowment to fund undergrad research. For example, Stanford sets aside approximately 4 million dollars in their endowment for undergraduate research. Little outside source is really going to funds a university for their undergrad to do research because they don’t trust undergrads. Most undergrads have little knowledge of the subject when compared to grad and professional school students and so grad students and professional school students can get more effective results than undergrads who don’t really have much experience with the subject.</p>
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<p>Let’s cross off the school for public health because Duke doesn’t have one and lets cross off SAIS because Duke doesn’t have a school for International Studies. Oh wait you pretty much got rid of half of what you said that JHU has over Duke. </p>
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Hmm so does that mean that we get to take out JHU’s Medical program? Oh wait then we just eliminated about 3/4 of what you said, sorry you just contradicted yourself. MD is a professional degree, so if you don’t consider MD, law school, business, public health, sais because one of the schools doesn’t have it and some are professional degree, your argument becomes useless.</p>
<p>It is purely pathetic that you guys rely so much on ranking, have you ever considered the fact that it is near impossible to ranking one exactly in front of the other? I mean there is no real way to say that going to Harvard is superior than going to Stanford. Nor is Medical school because each school has different departments. Some schools don’t worry about AIDS some school do. Some schools are more focused on cancer while others are on Oncology. I mean really. The number 1 has little superiority of the number 10. For the most part they are pretty much equal in academic strength. It is truly pathetic that you guys think that one school is better because they are ranked higher. JHU and Duke are pretty much equal, not one is superior over the other. Why? because Duke has programs that JHU doesn’t and vice versa. How are you going to rank them when that occurs? Plus there are various rankings where Duke is higher than JHU, does that mean that Duke is better? Well considering that you guys rely on ranking to make your case, then yes, but really it doesn’t.</p>
<p>So I honestly think that we should stop this arguement. JHU is just as good as Duke and Duke is just as good as JHU. Really if you go to one of them, it doesn’t even affect your chances at grad or professional school. Admissions to grad and professional school cares little about what school you went to and they sure aren’t going to try to figure out if Duke is better than JHU or is JHU better than Duke. They will just put them at the same level pretty much. I think that the OP has already got what he needs.</p>