<p>Is Duke's biggest overlap Penn? They seem similar.</p>
<p>their locations are completely different</p>
<p>In what ways. They are both east coast.</p>
<p>But I meant the student body.</p>
<p>durham isnt exactly philly</p>
<p>penn is a really urban campus whereas the area around Duke is not really that busy</p>
<p>around here Duke's biggest overlaps are UVA, UNC, BC, William and Mary, and Emory</p>
<p>Penn is much more known. A Wharton degree can take you alot further than Duke, that is facts.</p>
<p>Wharton is about as competitive has HYPS, whereas the rest of UPenn very comparable to Duke</p>
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<p>Below the Mason-Dixon line, Duke is a lot more well known.</p>
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<p>Althought I personall think Penn is the better school(including Wharton of course), I think Duke is more well known in the U.S. This has to do with Duke basketball, which most Americans have heard of. A lot of people still confuse UPenn with Penn State.</p>
<p>Yes, it was unfair of Penn State to steal the name.</p>
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<p>If you want to be an investment banker, then sure, nothing beats a Wharton degree. But Duke is on the short list of recruited colleges for the major NYC firms. </p>
<p>And if you think a Wharton degree can take you "a lot further" in every other field, well then, to be frank, you're misinformed. :) It will help in fields that will look specifically for biz majors (i.e. accounting - though Duke does have a few accounting courses in its econ department) but you're selling Duke short if you don't think it's well-respected among employers. Also, I think it's important that you realize where you got your undergrad degree from, be it Duke or Wharton, will only take you so far. Employers care much more about performance and/or grad school.</p>
<p>At least in Pennsylvania here we know the difference between PSU and UPenn... it is very big. Mainly one can play football, the other tries...</p>
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<p>thats soooo true.. i used to confuse the two (actually, the only reason why i can tell them apart is cuz my uncle is a history prof at UPenn) but .. i also think duke gets a whole lot more name recognition here in california.. ppl kno that it has a great basketball team, but when my uncle tells ppl that he's a prof at UPenn, alot of ppl say they've never really heard of it!</p>
<p>"A Wharton degree can take you alot further than Duke, that is facts."</p>
<p>This is the sort of statement that abounds on this web site. As someone who has been out of college for almost 25 years, I can state with absolute confidence that:
a. no school guarantees success.
b. predictions as to which students will succeed at the next level (be it hs, college, grad school, or work) are notoriously mediocre for the bulkof the people at whatever level.
c. The top students at every school have a lot more in common than do the top and average students at the same college.
d. Everyone who hires elite students knows of Duke and Penn and treats them as roughly equivalent. In other words, that student has jumped over several hoops that are fairly important indicators of success at the next level. The name Penn or Wharton or Harvard or whatever will not get you a job at Goldman Sachs or admission to Yale Law School or whatever.
e. Having said that, all things being equal, employers and schools tend to recruit from a known-quantity school, and that depends greatly on region and bias. </p>
<p>By the way, around the country, Duke is FAR better known than Penn, and it does have to do with the fact that Duke basketball's on television as often as Law and Order.</p>
<p>Penn does have the 2nd best Archaeology programme outside of Chicago... For us future Archaeologists that is at least a little notewothy praise.</p>