<p>Secondpick, I think you probably made the right choice.
As a Duke alumnus with a daughter hopefully going to UR next year I know I would feel more comfortable with her decision to go to UR than to Duke. In my opinion Duke has regressed some in the twenty-five years since I was there. But, I’m not here to slam Duke or to go into details about the alleged regression. Long story short is: if you were to have chosen Duke over UR it basically would have been for name recognition reasons (a fairly shallow reason I might add.) In my unprofessional take-it-for-what-its-worth opinion you will get an equal undergraduate education at UR as at Duke–maybe even better.</p>