@NerdyChica Saying that the AB program is kind of the American Rhodes is quite far-fetched. Duke is no Oxford. Also there is probably a reason Duke is forced to give out merit scholarships to attract these very top students, unlike all of the ivies, Stanford,MIT, Caltech. Also I highly doubt that students accepted to Harvard or Stanford ( or Princeton, Yale, MIT for that matter) turn them down in any significant numbers for Duke AB if money is not issue for them.