Duke or Notre Dame?

What’s your pick? Duke or Notre Dame? I’m trying to decide which school to apply early to so any advice or information would help. Thanks!!

That depends on what you want to pursue and what you want in your ideal world for a dream college. Have you visited?

Yes, I have visited both schools and I’m completely in love with both. I’m not really sure what I want to study yet, either biology (or something along those lines), something with business, or political science/government.

Duke definitely.

That is like asking someone to tell you if you would rather have an apple or an orange. They are two wonderful schools. Only you can decide which would be the better fit for you.

Both Duke (ED) and Notre Dame (REA) have higher admit rates than applying RD for each school. The difference is that Duke tells you that applying ED will give you an advantage over RD while Notre Dame has publicly stated that REA gives you no theoretical advantage over applying RD and that the higher REA admit rate at ND is simply because the REA pool has more top applicants.

With that said, if you truly have no preference between the two, I would apply ED to Duke.