<p>The differences in prestige, quality of undergraduate education and student body is very small between both these schools. If you really want to experience a new location, then Duke will still work out great for you weather-wise and socially as well. </p>
<p>Intellectually, I would say both Duke and Stanford are lacking in comparison to Columbia and HYP. The student bodies at both schools are kind of locked in a bubble where they are isolated from the real world in the sense that there isn’t a lot of political activism on either campus.</p>