<p>Any thoughts? Anyone here have friends at Duke or know any important differences?</p>
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<p>Let's say you are trying to decide on whether or not to use AP xxx to skip a course. You do and it is a mistake - turns out your can't compete, you really should have started a level lower. At Brown you switch the class to pass/fail and you survive with barely a blemish on your record. At Duke you start off with a C.</p>
<p>This probably does't happen, but the rules at Brown let you risk that it might happen. They let you take the chance if you wish to.</p>
<p>Well, that's a little misleading... at Brown, the deadline to switch to S/NC is pretty early in the semester, before you might know that you're getting a C, so you'd have to make that prediction pretty early on.</p>
<p>But then again, you can drop the course up until pretty much the day before your final exam.. Dont know too many colleges where you can drop that late..</p>
<p>And if you dont want a C on your transcript, this works out well because you have a pretty good idea of where you stand when youve completed everything besides your final..</p>
<p>You can drop a course until the end of reading period (which may be the day before your exam, or it could be a week before, depending on your exam schedule). Dropped classes do not appear on external transcripts.</p>
<p>Another advantage is that Brown isn't in the SOUTH and isn't cliquey (largely based on race).</p>
<p>Brown is a better environment, more flexible academically, historic, and less cliquey socially. It doesn't have the baggage of a southern school. Of course, there is a degree of self-segregation everywhere, but I have friends at both schools, and I've visited both. Duke is still at bottom a southern school with a less embracing environment for all people. Brown is by far the opposite.</p>
<p>Brown's not in the ghetto. That's definitely a plus.</p>
<p>The type of student that attends Duke is in general more pre-professional and less intellectual than those that attend Brown...as in, they are future rich people who usually are more interested in GPA's than learning</p>
<p>Of course, this may just be an overarching generalization, since theres alot of intellectual peopel at Duke, just that from what it seems the party scene usually dominates social life, rather than intellectual inquiry.</p>
<p>duke is ranked highly worldwide.</p>
<p>I don't know how much should you trust a ranking that ranks Cornell over Columbia... Hmmm... Even for Grad school, that's far from the truth...</p>
<p>that ranking is retarded. Texas the 12th best college in the US? Cal San Fran 10th best? </p>
<p>bull</p>
<p>Well, will you be playing lacrosse?</p>
<p>If you play Lax...haha</p>