<p>To alicejohnson:</p>
<p>I didn’t mean any disrespect re the Duke campaign. The duke chronicle article itself that I linked to described the campaign in fairly tepid terms. Looking across the spectrum of top schools, the $3.25B goal is on the smaller side, and the performance thus far hasn’t exactly been going gangbusters. Make no mistake, UChicagos campaign may very well go in a similar or even less positive direction. </p>
<p>Right now, actually, Duke and UChicago appear to be highly leveraged and without the same verve in fundraising as harvard, stanford, etc. </p>