<p>Is this an allusion to my username or something?</p>
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<p>FOR YOU. Be careful not to generalize.</p>
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<p>To me, a 70% difference seems quite astronomical. </p>
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<p>Let this “insecure” HS student teach you a thing or two about how to construct a proper sentence. Your incorrect sentence should read as follows: “As a HS student, you seem a little insecure about something.”</p>
<p>If you don’t understand why, here’s a reference for you:</p>
<p>Seriously guys, stop bashing one another and provide posts that are actually relevant to the OP. If you don’t have anything constructive to say that will help the OP make this hard decision, then please save yourselves the time and not post on here.</p>
<p>Anyways, to the OP, I would say that in the end, this is your’s and your family’s decision to make. If I were you, I would just sit down and have a nice, long chat with your family, asking for their full opinions and rationale, while also telling them your’s. I think that after that discussion, I’m pretty sure you’ll be able to come to a conclusion. Also, to echo what everyone else is saying, once you make your decision, never look back and regret a single thing.</p>
<p>@jumpfroggyjump - I don’t really understand why you have such a vendetta against Duke. I get that you think their financial aid is unfair. The system is imperfect but Duke appeals to a wide range of people and offers great financial aid to the people who need it the most. Because Duke has limited funds, some people may be burdened with higher costs, but when 1/4 people recieve on average $30,000 in financial aid, Duke is making an effort to ensure that the people who need financial aid the most are getting it. Oh, correcting grammar on a random forum? Clearly, that makes you far superior to all of us. And sure I didn’t get into Stanford, but how does that make me shallow because I only turned down HYPM and not HYPSM?</p>
<p>Anyway, I hope you’re happy wherever you’re going because you seem very bitter about Duke.</p>
<p>Just because I am challenging some of the overstated and hyperbolic claims made about Duke’s socio-economic diversity in this forum doesn’t mean that I have a “vendetta” against Duke. Or that I am “bitter” about Duke. I personally do not believe that top universities should be giving out merit scholarships unless they can make themselves comfortably affordable for all their admittees. So the “limited funds” excuse doesn’t hold much water for me. I understand that Duke may not be able to compete with HYPSM in financial aid. Still, not only were my FA packages more generous from YPS, but also from Columbia and Brown. And Brown has a much smaller endowment than Duke. I wouldn’t have chosen Duke over any of these schools, but still. It’s a matter of principle.</p>
<p>Principle? Lol, so you were offended or something that Duke didn’t give you as much money as other schools? I fail to understand why you are wasting your time on the message board of a school that you not only don’t plan on attending, but that you don’t even like that much. Surely you have better things to occupy your time with, unless you do feel some bitterness towards the Duke.</p>
<p>Actually, I am much more offended by some of the misrepresentations about Duke’s socio-economic diversity and FA policy (among other things) that I’ve read on this board.</p>
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<p>Is that what you call your university? THE Duke?? Are there others?</p>
<p>I really don’t understand this thread. Duke has a problem with socioeconomic diversity, THAT’S a fact. Duke has admitted it, and they have expressed a desire to do something about it. That’s good, I wish them luck and hope that in the next decade they make progress towards that goal. </p>
<p>For the apologist in this thread, … your argument should be NOT be with people posting simple facts … if you don’t believe these facts, go argue with the Duke administration …
Maybe you can convince them that everything is fine the way it is, … as I’ve said before, it’s a private school, they can run it anyway they want, however, they DO need to fix certain wording on their website and in their literature …</p>
<p>OP, don’t pretend like you know where you’ll be happier. All you know is which school you like more now. Happiness within a school is dependent on random things you will never be able to calculate before you experience it.</p>
<p>As an asian parent, I think if OP wants to be a doctor, then choose JHU or Harvard. If OP wants to be a IB, go to Harvard or Princeton. If OP wants to be a lawyer, go to Yale. If OP (like most of HS kids) has not decided what to do in the future, choose HYP. The good thing is OP has option to choose. Money only matters when OP’s parent can not afford to pay and this is not the case.</p>
<p>The good thing about Duke is the warm weather and sport. Our tuition will go to Duke this fall as we do not have other better choice.</p>
<p>^This is what is wrong with prestige obsessed Asian parents. How dare you say that the only thing Duke is better for is weather and sports without knowing what this country’s education is like.</p>
<p>I’ve stayed away from this thread for a while since it’s gotten pretty contentious, but yeeesh…I totally agree with what eatsalot just said. Duke has some of the best resources for research in the country, and I’ve heard time and again that it prepares you impeccably for medical school. Please do your (majestic plural) research before making blanket assumptions about any school.</p>
<p>"This is what is wrong with prestige obsessed Asian parents. How dare you say that the only thing Duke is better for is weather and sports without knowing what this country’s education is like. "</p>
<p>Please read my poster again. I did not say ‘only’. It is you who said it. Do you think Duke is better than HYP on average in academics?</p>
<p>Duke is definitely better at placing students into med school than JHU in my opinion. Internationals (or people outside the Northeast often!) don’t seem to get that the US education system is very different. Duke will place in IB very very well (close to Harvard level) and going to Yale undergrad means nothing for law school! It is ridiculous to think that Yale law has anything to do with their undergrad.</p>
<p>The US does not work like Asia or Europe. Undergraduate is very different than graduate (outside of very select areas), you can’t mix the two.</p>
<p>^ Princeton claims that 80% of its graduates went to Wall Street bank before this recession(I do not remember which year though). I do not know what is the percentage for Duke. I still think if one goes to Yale for undergraduate, one will have a higher chance to be a future lawyer than the undergraduates of Duke. I did not say that if one goes to Yale for undergraduate, one will automatically be a Yale law student. However, I still think Yale undergraduates have a higher chance to go to Yale law than other universities (maybe at the same rate of HYS) unless Yale law school has a policy to discriminate its undergraduates.</p>
<p>@everyone - I’m going to Duke. I value your opinions and everything, but in the end, I’m going to enjoy any college I attend, but I’ve wanted to go to Duke since Stanford rejected me. Now that I’ve gotten in and can pay for it, I’m going there.</p>
<p>My parents are Asian, so I can understand the prestige argument, but I don’t think I’m losing anything by going to Duke. Sure, people can argue about the percentages, but it’s not like I won’t be able to get into a medical school because I went to Duke and not JHU/Harvard. Percentages really mean nothing - they represent a collection of extremely different people in extremely different circumstances. I’m sure that if I still want to go to med school in 4 years, I will get into one. And if I don’t, it won’t be because I went to Duke.</p>