Stanford Vs. Duke

bluedevilmike
Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:16:46 +0000

Regarding the northeasterners, I will certainly concede your point.

Regarding Asian communities, that was a botched phrasing on my part. I simply mean that a lot of the Asian-gossip I observe - being a Chinese person myself - tends to correspond with the California mentality I’ve noticed. My own personal theory is that California has a higher Asian population, and since gossip networks tend to run in families, this tends to transfer over.

HYP, in my mind, are clearly stronger than the other three. I’m pretty firmly of the opinion that Penn comes next. If you want to argue that Stanford then beats Duke, I think that’s certainly a strong argument, especially if you incorporate the admissions differential (Stanford is harder to get into). Personally, I think that if you ignore that, the two schools are pretty similar.

Still, can’t go too wrong in the top six, I suppose.