<p>Nice to see we have so many experts on the quality of Duke Med School. It is one of the best in the country and the best in the Southeast.</p>
<p>Duke is usually called the Stanford of the South, so it's a pretty good school.</p>
<p>Med prgrams???? PEOPLE, its irrelevant how good the med school is!!! Think Williams has a med school? It also has some of the best med school placement in the country. </p>
<p>Stanford is the better UNDERGRAD school, but not by that much.</p>
<p>Duke has better law school placement. It also has better placement period according to the WSJ. So, all that prestige Stanford supposedly has over Duke if I can get into Yale law easier at Duke.</p>
<p>PS: I'm a Blue Devil '09, so I am SLIGHTLY biased</p>
<p>Stanford undoubtably has a better international reputation. Duke is a great school, but it's not as widely recognized as Stanford is. As someone mentioned before, people in Asia view Stanford as the superior institution. Everyone's heard of the acronym HYPSM. Notice that Duke's not included in it. Now, as for medical school placement, it's pretty much a tie.</p>
<p>slipper1234 -- It's not irrelevant, because she also mentioned being interested in med school after undergrad. She could get her BA at one school, then get her MD (or PhD, if it comes to that) at the other.</p>
<p>you are privileged to have to make this decision, just step back and realize you will have a great time and do well in life regardless</p>
<p>p.s. good to see some LTJ representation on the boards :)</p>
<p>I agree with aceestrin- I don't think it matters</p>
<p>at all. </p>
<p>No grad school is going to even bother to care if you went to stanford or duke, they both have exceptional levels of prestige. A few numbers off in a specific program means nothing. Go where to the place you want to be and will have a better time at.</p>
<p>Devil May Cry,</p>
<p>According to WSJ, Stanford is a better feeder to top biz/law/med programs. I guess you are "slightly" biased. ;)</p>
<p>Alright I checked again. Duke is 6th and Stanford is 4th. BIG DEAL!!!!</p>
<p>LOL jk</p>
<p>However, this is who went to Harvard and Yale law last year:
Harvard University 294
Yale University 170
Princeton University 99
<<<duke university="" 90="">>>
Stanford University 86
Columbia University 74
Brown University 70
University of California - Berkeley 60
University of California - Los Angeles 57
Cornell University 56
University of Pennsylvania 51
University of Texas - Austin 50
Georgetown University 38
Dartmouth College 33
Brigham Young University 33
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor 30
University of Virginia 28
Williams College 26
Amherst College 23
Rice University 23
University of Chicago 21
Northwestern University 21
<<<emory university="" 20="">>></emory></duke></p>
<p>Touche.</p>
<p>Duke has 6100 undergrads, Stanford as 6500, Dartmouth has 4000, and Columbia has 5400 (I think), Williams has 1900. Stanford and Duke have around the same entering freshman though, with Stanford with like 80 more.</p>
<p>I was just checking to see if Duke had a greater deal of students, to check for another variable that increased Duke's placement into HLS</p>
<p>Williams is 33/1900 (2000 undergrads), while duke is 90/6100, so technically your chances are better at Williams, then Duke, then Stanford, then Columbia, etc. - of course, Williams doesnt have much of an engineering program nor lots of hard science majors in comparison</p>
<p>I actually think Stanford and Duke would be pretty much tied, since it depends more on how many kids actually want to go to law school - alot of the kids at Stanfords are in the hard sciences and stuff, moreoso than Duke</p>
<p>Both are great schools, I've heard relatively more about Duke though (since I live on the East Coast). That may be both because of academics as well as the bball team, though Stanfords is good too (weren't they sweet sixteen last year?). </p>
<p>Stanfords average SAT is 20 to 30 points higher and its acceptance rate is lower. Duke has marginally better law school placement. Both have awesome med schools. Stanfords engineering is killer. Duke's Public Policy institute is great. It depends on what you want to do.</p>
<p>Devil May Cry,</p>
<p>LOL! You forgot Stanford feeds itself (Stanford's law school is just as good as Harvard/Yale) also. Lots of Stanford grads get spoiled by the warm weather and don't see themselves living with the Northeast's freezing cold. ;)</p>
<p>Guys,</p>
<p>These numbers change every year. Its sort of significant, but not that much. Its better to look at the WSJ feeder list. It varies much less year to year.</p>
<p>I remember three years ago Dartmouth had 43 and Duke had about 50. So these numbers fluctuate every year. You can't compare them exactly.</p>
<p>And thisyearsgirl, I think you missed my point. I know he/she wants to go to med school, but its a huge misconception to think because a school has a good med school that means better med school placement from undergrad. Williams/ Amherst dont have med schools and have med school placement rivaling any top school.</p>
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And thisyearsgirl, I think you missed my point. I know he/she wants to go to med school, but its a huge misconception to think because a school has a good med school that means better med school placement from undergrad. Williams/ Amherst dont have med schools and have med school placement rivaling any top school.
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I wasn't referring to med school placement for undergrad; I was talking about the actual med school, which she (yes, it's a she) may end up attending at some point. It's not as immediate a decision, but I'd definitely say it's relevant to the situation.</p>
<p>go with the free ipod</p>