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A few points:
[ul][<em>]The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education has regularly ranked Duke #1 in the country for “their relative success in attracting, enrolling, and graduating African-American students as well as their progress in bringing black professors to their campuses.” WUStL was ranked a respectable #4.
[</em>]Duke has a slightly larger black community (11%, 190 freshmen) than WUStL (10%, 150 freshmen).
[<em>]Duke’s graduation rate for black students (88%) is slightly higher than WUStL’s (87%), though really the difference is inconsequential.
[</em>]Duke has a center for [black</a> life and culture](<a href=“Duke Student Affairs”>Duke Student Affairs) in the middle of campus, as well as a [Center</a> for Race Relations](<a href=“http://www.duke.edu/web/racerelations/]Center”>http://www.duke.edu/web/racerelations/). WUStL, as far as I can tell from its website, does not have something resembling either.
[li]Duke’s department of African & African-American Studies is ranked with Harvard’s as the nation’s best.[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Needless to say, the claim that Duke is segregated is egregiously false. In fact, taking 5 seconds to glance around the dining halls on East or West would debunk that claim. You could certainly wall yourself off with friends of your own race or ethnicity should you care to do so, but most don’t. Diversity is one thing that attracts many people to Duke, and there is a extraordinarily strong sense of camaraderie that you don’t find at many colleges.</p>
<p>As for which to choose…well, this won’t be popular on this board, but I personally think only Stanford can give Duke a run for its money in the perfect mix of academics, athletics, social life, campus beauty, and weather.</p>