Note to CCers about Duke

xrCalico23
Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:12:30 +0000

Based on a recent poll conducted by myself…



Is this “poll” in High School Life the poll you’re talking about?

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/high-school-life/937830-there-any-universities-you-hate.html

People were just ranting about random schools, and no one was truly taking the “poll” seriously. Sometimes people say that they “hate” a certain school because they may dislike someone who attends the institution, dislike someone who they associate with the school, or they themselves were rejected from the school (which admittedly was not the case in the HSL thread since most of the posters were sophomores and juniors who probably have not even seriously researched college options yet). For most of the supposedly “Duke-haters”, if you offer them the chance to be admitted to Duke many would be more than happy to accept the offer. In addition, the “poll” was such an informal survey; you really can’t reach any meaningful conclusion from such a small and self selective sample size. And don’t worry - I don’t know any one in real life who hates Duke.



For one, I really have no need to prove Duke’s greatness.



Exactly. You have no need to prove that to anyone. Duke remains a great school no matter what a few people think :).