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<p>Completely unfounded. The Cornell social scene has an amazing amount of breadth and depth.</p>
<p>Okay i am not a big duke fan but do you want to spent eight out of the nine months you're away at college absolutely freezing your butt off?? - I went on a recruiting trip to Cornell and it rained/sleeted the entire time - believe me that 700 acre campus is not fun to trek around in bad weather! So Duke > Cornell</p>
<p>for engineering, Cornell is much, much better than Duke. I would only choose Duke for Biomedical Eng.</p>
<p>Um. This is a no brainer. Cornell is among the top 5 for undergraduate engineering. Duke's Pratt is among the top 25 except for BME which it is #2 after Johns Hopkins.</p>
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<p>LOL - only deluded Dukies think that... </p>
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Okay i am not a big duke fan but do you want to spent eight out of the nine months you're away at college absolutely freezing your butt off?? So Duke > Cornell
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<p>In that case - Duke > Harvard, Yale, MIT, Dartmouth, etc.</p>
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Duke > Harvard, Yale, MIT, Dartmouth, etc.
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<p>Duke is the worst school in the nation. It does not deserve it's top ten status. ^^ </p>
<p>Harvard, Yale, MIT, Dartmouth > Duke.</p>
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<p>So now Upstate winters last nine months instead of four? Could have fooled me.</p>
<p>I absolutely loved my time at Cornell, weather included. So much so that I frequently would head back to campus a couple of weeks before spring term started in early January. The snowshoeing and cross country skiing was fantastic.</p>
<p>Tons of kids go to school in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New England. The winter weather is no different in those places than Upstate.</p>
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Duke is the worst school in the nation. It does not deserve it's top ten status. ^^
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<p>that's right duke should be top 4 imo.</p>
<p>@CayugaRed2005: you have to admit that you're biased beyond belief. duke>cornell hands down as far as weather is concerned.</p>
<p>Can someone link to the US news rankings for colleges by weather? :P</p>
<p>Something doesn't belong here DukeBlueDevils</p>
<p>Stanford- 10% acceptance rate
Princeton- 9% acceptance rate
MIT- 13% acceptance rate
Harvard- 9% acceptance rate
Duke- 23% acceptance rate</p>
<p>Looks like Duke isn't really on par with the top schools, but rather the other elite privates that some (not all) Duke snobs attempt to disassociate themselves with.</p>
<p>Wash U.-17%
Northwestern-27%
Johns Hopkins- 24%
Rice- 25%</p>
<p>on par in terms of what? selectivity? look at the stats of the admitted students. duke is on par with HYPS. the only reason they have a lower acceptance rate is because they get more publicity.</p>
<p>Duke is on par with Stanford, not HYP in terms of test scores. But so are schools like WashU, Columbia and Northwestern. But I see more fans/students from Duke showing their superiority complex; they seem to have the habit of telling themselves and others they are as good as HYPS and better than WashU, Northwestern, Cornell, Chicago...etc. </p>
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the only reason they have a lower acceptance rate is because they get more publicity
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<p>Wrong to even mention WUSTL in the same breath as Columbia and Northwestern.</p>
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CayugaRed2005: you have to admit that you're biased beyond belief. duke>cornell hands down as far as weather is concerned.
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<p>I never said otherwise. All I suggested was that plenty of students are completely happy with their choice of schools despite the weather. And if one honestly picks their school based on weather over other factors, then I wonder if they have their priorities straight.</p>
<p>Right now in Ithaca it is 33 degrees and cloudy. Durham? 34 degrees and cloudy. Of course, in Durham it might get another ten degrees warmed during the day, but neither temperature is anything to write home about.</p>
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<p>Yeah, that single data point is entirely valid as far as comparing the climates of Durham and Ithaca (rolls eyes). Let's try something with a little more statistical validity. Per The Weather Channel website, Durham's average daily temperature for the month of December is a high of 53 and a low of 30, while Ithaca's averages are 36 and 20. So Ithaca's average high temp is roughly equivalent to the daily low in Durham. </p>
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<p>I agree that different people prefer different climates and weather may be a very minor factor for some students. But for others it clearly is a deal-breaker; weather is something that impacts one's personal comfort on a daily basis, and some people just cannot tolerate extremely hot or cold climates well. Is this factor any more superficial than fancy dorms, a scenic campus, or athletic conference affiliations? All other things being roughly equal, it makes perfect sense to choose a college with weather that suits your personal preferences, and there is no need to denigrate others who may prioritize weather higher on their list of factors.</p>
<p>I just noticed this thread had some activity, so I'd like to follow up. I am now an engineer at Duke, and I'm loving it.</p>
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look at the stats of the admitted students. duke is on par with HYPS. the only reason they have a lower acceptance rate is because they get more publicity.
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<p>More delusions of grandeur.</p>
<p>HYP each have higher stats than Duke (albeit in the scheme of things - not a wide margin).</p>
<p>The stats for Duke students is similar to Stanford (which chooses not to emphasize test scores as much) - but then again, the same applies to Northwestern and a no. of other schools.</p>
<p>And sorry - Duke probably gets more publicity than any of the Ivies simply due to its basketball team (anyway, it was a weak "excuse").</p>
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Yeah, that single data point is entirely valid as far as comparing the climates of Durham and Ithaca (rolls eyes). Let's try something with a little more statistical validity. Per The Weather Channel website, Durham's average daily temperature for the month of December is a high of 53 and a low of 30, while Ithaca's averages are 36 and 20. So Ithaca's average high temp is roughly equivalent to the daily low in Durham.
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<p>The anecdote was simply meant to foil the argument that the weather is always great in Durham, and nothing more. </p>
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All other things being roughly equal, it makes perfect sense to choose a college with weather that suits your personal preferences, and there is no need to denigrate others who may prioritize weather higher on their list of factors.
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<p>If somebody has a valid medical condition where weather needs to be taken into consideration, then sure, I'm more than sympathetic to such a claim. But otherwise there are much more important issues to consider. The quality of a school's engineering program would be one.</p>
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All other things being roughly equal, it makes perfect sense to choose a college with weather that suits your personal preferences, and there is no need to denigrate others who may prioritize weather higher on their list of factors.
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<p>Why assume "all other things being roughly equal" except weather?
How about location?
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<p>Do you like Durham?</p>