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What!? People who take an interest in sports are stupid. So, that Intel finalist work I saw this one ESPN-tard do was all a fake! It couldn’t be that he used his brain to do it.
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<p>But umm yea… I visited Penn during my junior year and Duke after I was accepted. I may be a little biased since I spent more time at Duke when I visited. (Got into Duke, didn’t get into Penn… shows how much college visits actually matter, :D) I found that people at Penn were happy because ‘they were great enough to get into Penn’. However, people were happy at Duke because they loved their school. School spirit is much greater at Duke than Penn. </p>
<p>I also got a sense of an inferiority complex from CAS at Penn as well, relative to Wharton. I have a friend who applied to Penn’s school of engineering, didn’t get in there, but was accepted to its college of arts and sciences (I don’t think he expressed any interest in CAS). He’s at Duke now, :)</p>
<p>ead’s comment sums up a positive of Duke and negative of Penn. North Carolina has beautiful weather. I may just be grateful as a New Yorker. </p>
<p>In all seriousness, both are great schools. They have a similar set of students: intelligent yet disappointingly anti-intellectual but people with strong career plans and ambition.</p>
<p>I find people at Duke are incredibly cooperative. It mostly depends on the class. I felt the intense competition for Orgo. I heard that someone’s model kit was stolen the night before an exam. I found it hard to join a study group, in the sense, that there weren’t really any. I finally found one with three people in my dorm but I didn’t find it till late November and they couldn’t even meet up for finals week. However, Penn Orgo is probably equally competitive, if not more so.</p>