<p>Again, because that's simply how the contract was written up when the gift was given. You'd have to ask the Duke family if you wanted an "actual" reason.</p>
<p>For comparison purposes, here's a few colleges and % of OOS freshmen:
Dartmouth 97%
Brown 95%
Yale 93%
Middlebury 93%
Amherst 90%
MIT 89%
Bowdoin 88%
Haverford 88%
Duke 85%
Princeton 84%
Vanderbilt 84%
Davidson 84%
Swarthmore 81%
Carleton 77%
Northwestern 75%
Carnegie Mellon 70%
Hamilton 67%
Cornell 66%
Caltech 64%
Stanford 56%
Rice 49%</p>
<p>Source: Common Data Sets</p>
<p>Spend some time in east TN or SW VA and you'll understand. No shoes, no shirt, and no teeth. Just kidding. It is what it is,just as bluedevilmike stated. Again, my southern brothers and sisters, I'm joking. SC,the place I love and live in, has its issues. Thankfully, Mr. Duke liked us!!</p>