<p>Dartmouth Vs Duke...</p>
<p>Opinions...</p>
<p>Both are very strong schools with about the same grad placement and access to top recruiters. Dartmouth is more LAC-like, which means more undergrad attention and grants/ etc.</p>
<p>Why I choose Dartmouth over Duke:</p>
<p>1) LACish feeling: Dartmouth spends the most among the Ivies on its undergrads and this shows through. Getting grants for thesis research, special funded community service programs, etc all happen at Dartmouth more than other places. Very few classes have over 100 students, and there are essentially no classes taught by TAs. Its a real strength. The academic experience at Dartmouth is unique and rivaled by few (maybe Princeton).</p>
<p>2) D-plan. Dartmouth allows you to go on multiple study abroads, and these are Dartmouth run programs with lots of funding. This means that you have a Dartmouth professor, excursion trips every weekend, paid for learning trips (trips to semana santa in sevilla spain, etc), etc. Its amazing. The other benefit is sophomore summer, when you really get to know your class. Its like summer camp and was personally my favorite trip at Dartmouth. The final benefit of the D-plan is that Dartmouth secures many elite interships during the year and its far easier to get into a top firm this way. Its a huge advantage for recruiting.</p>
<p>3) Campus. Dartmouth is much more tightknit (Duke has a shuttle getting around its campus) and warm. The outdoors are right next to you, and whether its swimming in the river during the summer or skiing at Dartmouth's mountain in the winter this was a big plus for me.</p>
<p>4) School spirit. Duke's focuses on basketball, but Dartmouth's is focused on the school and community. Dartmouth has a big weekend every term (4 a year) and alumni come back to reunions and homecomings in droves. Dartmouth keeps in touch very well. Its very familial.</p>
<p>Duke is a fantastic school and one of my favorites. But IMO Dartmouth feels "warmer" and more intimate, and the academic experience is much more tailored towards undergrads.</p>
<p>Hanover vs. Durham (Duke is NOT in Chapel Hill that's UNC) .....no way I would want to be subjected to Nifong type justice</p>
<p>both are great, and very similar in terms of student bodies, social scenes, grad placement. the real questions revolve around location (city versus rural), weather (warm versus cold), and size (major research university, LAC). Like everyone else (who is sane) is saying, choose for fit...</p>
<p>incollege:
Dartmouth's business school is probably better than Duke's while the reverse can be said about the medical schools.</p>
<p>Lol which has nothing to do with their undergrad educations.</p>
<p>Slipper,
I was responding to incollege's reference to major research university vs. LAC by pointing out that Dartmouth has pretty good graduate school too. I agree with you that Dartmouth is one of the best (if not the best) undergraduate schools in the country.</p>
<p>I'd pick Dartmouth.</p>
<p>^Me too...</p>
<p>Most do end up picking Dartmouth (this is a pretty common cross-acceptance btw), but those who pick Duke do it for a few reasons. First, Duke has two, very different, types of students (by reputation/stereotype/whatever). Both of these will go beyond the extremes of Dartmouth. For example, Duke has the most die-hard sports fanatics in the country. Then, they also have some extremely nerdy students who study the craziest most theoretical minute branch of physics or something (i heard of some students there who are currently studying invisibility). If you are neither of those extremes, Dartmouth will be a great place for you.</p>
<p>Dartmouth all the way, without a doubt.</p>
<p>Whoa ajay, congrats on colgate!! Its an awesome school, in many ways very similar to Dartmouth in atmosphere.</p>
<p>Thanks, slipper1234! :)</p>
<p>Grandmaster101: Can we assume you also posted the same question on the Duke site? And if you did, I'm guessing that you got back Duke over Dartmouth by, like 10 to 1.</p>
<p>VeryHappy is absolutely right. Just go with the school which you feel is right for you. And everyone knows where he/she wants to be.</p>