<p>Does anyone know, from personal knowledge, of any students who have transferred from Dartmouth to Duke. If so, when? With all of the talk about these schools being comparable (allegedly) I truly wonder if students who gain admission to the Ivy League leave it for Duke.</p>
<p>lawyerdad, when will you ever leave your ivy-league crutch and open your eyes. Would you really turn down Stanford for Brown? </p>
<p>Are you insinuating DUKE IS OF LESS PRESTIGE THAN DARTMOUTH!!!!!</p>
<p>When was Duke ever not in the top decile?</p>
<p>Edit: I better stop, I sound like a tool right about now. Forgive me.</p>
<p>Maybe students that are originally from warm climates. ;)</p>
<p>DMC: You may want to re-read the post. It referred to Duke specifically, not Stanford or MIT or Chicago.</p>
<p>I think most people can agree that Duke has more prestige. It's not better, but it has more prestige. Did you try duke's website to see if they had transfer stats?</p>
<p>I don't think it has more prestige, espeically in the Northeast. Anyway, there is a thread on the Duke board talking (called "my D dilemma" or something like that) about this issue right now with someone wanting to make this transfer,. Her name is divagurl(?) I also know someone who transferred from Duke to Dartmouth.</p>
<p>I don't think Duke has more prestige in the northeast, since everyone I know sees it as a basketball school and nothing else, and overall I have no idea, having lived nowhere else. However, any prestige difference between Dartmouth and Duke is so negligible that I doubt many people would actually transfer because of it.</p>
<p>I wasn't trying to make it an issue, but Dartmouth is not as well-known as Duke, and at least here people know it for both its strengths- athletic and academic. People usually don't know of Dart's own merits, just assuming it's strong because it's in the ivy league. </p>
<p>back to the issue: I don't see why a large number would transfer to Duke</p>
<p>This is a pretty dumb thread. I know a kid who transferred from Yale to Duke, doesn't mean that Duke is a better school, just means that she didn't like Yale...Likewise, I know kids here who transferred from Ivies to Duke and vice versa--what is the point of this post??</p>
<p>Also, I have over a dozen personal friends who chose Duke over Dartmouth...obviously the two compete for students.</p>
<p>Also, lawyerdad, if you are in fact a lawyer then you should know that Duke graduates are extremely well represented at Harvard and Yale law schools and all the other top law schools as well. In this regard, Duke beats every Ivy besides Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. In the last two years, Duke has had 166 kids to Harvard and Yale law schools. Princeton 199, Columbia 142, Brown 141, Dartmouth 78, UPenn 102, Cornell 105. So obviously when it comes to law school admissions, Duke is thought of as highly (or more highly) than over half the Ivies, even at Ivy League law schools.</p>
<p>my stanford comment was an analogy. Essentially, I was exhibiting how your argument is an excerpt of futility since Stanford is better than Brown even though Brown is in the coveted IVY LEAGUE.</p>
<p>Duke and Stanford are pretty comparable domestically with Stanford getting the edge.</p>
<p>In my transfer class (we all knew each other) into Dartmouth I remember the following:</p>
<p>1 Duke
1 Swarthmore
1 UNC
2 Boston College
1 Yale
2 Brown
2 Northwestern
1 Penn
1 Simon's Rock
1 Colby
1 Miami Florida
1 Columbia (me)
1 Lewis and Clark
3 Wellesley
1 Middlebury
1 Cornell
1 UT-Austin
1 Utah State
1 Purdue
1 Michigan
1 Queens College (Canada)
1 Alaska Something</p>
<p>As you can see, its pretty diverse</p>
<p>I think this is a silly question.</p>
<p>Duke and Dartmouth are both good enough such that no one can actually be saying I want to go to one or the other because 'it is so much more prestigious.'
If people are really deciding between Duke and Dartmouth they will decide on factors that have nothing to do with such immature and non-existent things as "prestige."</p>
<p>If you feel Duke, you will go there with no reference to whether or not it is as prestigious as Dartmouth. The opposite is also true.</p>
<p>DMC: I've noted how hostile you appear toward many people on several threads with whom you disagree. Your viewpoints are important, but your attitude needs an adjustment. This is a public board and I posed the question for a reason in the hope that people would reply with constructive responses. They have; would you like to try again? Finally, I doubt you truly believe that gaining entry into Stanford is the same as getting into Duke. I know you have chosen to attend Duke. It's an excellent university and I'm certain you will be an asset to the class of '09. But it's no Stanford.</p>
<p>I love how everything on cc turns into a war.</p>
<p>Unfortunately celebrian, your observation seems valid. My question was very simple and sought replies only from people with personal knowledge. Exactly where the concept of "prestige" entered into it is a mystery. Duke is also prestigious, so it never entered my mind. The data are important to me for obvious reasons and it is a legitimate question. By the responses thus far it would appear that people tend to transfer into Brown from Duke, but not v-v. Are people actually surprised by that?</p>
<p>Correction; Dartmouth</p>
<p>Ah lawyerdad. First, it is YOU who came on to this board to incite an argument. As a grown man, you would come amongst a group of teenagers and argue which one has more prestige. I would think that a man of your experience would realize the irrelevancy in your topic. Moreover, I am not being atavistic or arrogant when I tell you that you are no angel. In the WSJ thread, you made some pretty asanine remarks yourself. I do not see how my initial post was offensive, but I apologize anyway. In fact, I even apologized then. I am just tired of seeing you deliberately start threads in order to get a rise out of people.</p>
<p>PS: What does admission into Stanford have anything to do with it? Your initial argument was prestige, was it not? Columbia has a lower admission % than Stanford....is it better? Maybe so, maybe not.</p>
<p>As to your new post...yes it was a question of prestige indirectly. You wanted to know if kids came to Dartmouth from Duke trying to insinuate that it is better than Duke overall. Incollege88 saw it...and so did I. This is just like when you went to all of the Ivy boards with the flawed WSJ rankings saying how Dartmouth was SOOOOO MUCH COOLER than their school. </p>
<p>My only question is....WHY?</p>
<p>Lawyerdad,</p>
<p>It may be that we all misinterpreted what you said, when you said:</p>
<p>"With all of the talk about these schools being comparable (allegedly) I truly wonder if students who gain admission to the Ivy League leave it for Duke."</p>
<p>The "Ivy League" not actually being a school you could transfer to or from I assumed you were referring to the only non-athletic thing that unites them: prestige.</p>
<p>Not to diminish Penn, Columbia or Cornell in any way, but I would consider transferring from either of these two Ivies for Dukethough not because Duke is more prestigious, I just happen to prefer Duke.</p>
<p>I must have misunderstood the question. Sorry about that.</p>