<p>Got accepted to Duke and Dartmouth....which one should I go to? I wanna be a corporate lawyer, dont mind the cold, am black, and want to eventually go to Yale law.</p>
<p>Which school can achieve this?</p>
<p>Neither university is a superstar for diversity, though you may well find Dartmouth better. Both have good law school placement. Dartmouth has good pre-law type majors, but so does Duke. It's a tough call. Dartmouth is probably more the pre-elite-law type place, purely going by stereotypes.</p>
<p>Yah I'd say Dartmouth only because its an Ivy and people recognize that.</p>
<p>Devil,</p>
<p>Most law schools list the undergraduate institutions attended by current law students. Both Dartmouth and Duke have good placement into law school. Here is a link from Harvard Law 2004. I am sure if you search, you can find similar information for other law schools.</p>
<p>Duke has a 99% placement rate in to law school. I don't know about Dartmouth.</p>
<p>i currently attend Dartmouth, and I would definately say that the humanities department is awesome, ALOT of people go to law school from here, really good ones. But ironically, I want to transfer for Duke because it's better for science.</p>
<p>oh yeah. P/s I don't know if this is factor tho, but there aren't alot of black people here. I dunno if it's cause they don't like cold weather, but the ones that do go here huddle together in a group. It's mostly WASP and asians.</p>
<p>sokkermom, from the website, it looks like Duke and Dartmouth are about equal in terms of law admissions...assuming many other things stay constant, such as number of applicants and stuff</p>
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Neither school can achieve this, only you can. Both schools will give you great opportunities to do it and are well-respected by law schools (yes, even Yale law school). Trying to analyze beyond that is just pointless.</p>
<p>My boyfriend (and many other of my now-Dukie friends) had this decision to make last spring. I'm using the bf as an example because I know he's pre-law. He doesn't mind the cold, but prefers sunny days in winter, he loves to watch sports, but he also cares a LOT about the names. His dad turned to him and said "If Dartmouth wasn't in the ivy league, would you be turning Duke down?" He realized that the one reason he kept on trying to find reasons to make Dartmouth more attractive was because he liked knowing it was an ivy. He chose Duke.</p>
<p>Other friends chose Duke for other reasons. But at the same time, one of my best friends constantly asks herself why she didn't apply to Dartmouth (and even considered transferring there). It's not because she doesn't like Duke, but it's because she loves to ski and could obviously ski more (and more competitively) at Dartmouth than she can at Duke.</p>
<p>Duke is in the top #3 feeder schools to Yale law (behind Yale and Harvard respectively) last time I looked at stats.</p>