<p>So my choices are these:</p>
<p>Duke
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Dartmouth
Northwestern
University of Chicago
Georgetown (School of Foreign Service)</p>
<p>I just... don't know what I want to do...
I loveeeeee government. I don't want to do medicine. I might do law or business. </p>
<p>Negatives on Georgetown I can think of... no school spirit. Like UCB and U of Chicago.</p>
<p>Total opposite of Northwestern and UCLA. </p>
<p>I dunno. Help?</p>
<p>I'd go Duke, then.</p>
<p>Except for the henious stuff going on with the LaCrosse team, it is a great college experience. And, they have a good law school, med-school, and business school. :)</p>
<p>IB</p>
<p>Duke is extrordinarily strong in both the liberal arts and pre-professional programs. If cost is a concern, try UCLA. it is also strong in the aformentioned fields.</p>
<p>You have to know what you want in a college. I'd go to Georgetown or Dart. But that's based on my own personal criteria.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is not too reputable for political science or government...</p>
<p>I also have one question... is Duke racist? I mean, it's in the south. But I don't think it's like, Ole' Miss kind of southern.</p>
<p>Duke has Public Policy and Political Science, both of which are very large, reputable departments. Our foreign language departments (except maybe Arabic) are also excellent, which is something to consider. About 25% of the graduating class ends up in DC, 25% ends up in NYC, and the rest go elsewhere. Duke doesn't have a business program, but it does offer Economics and a Markets & Management certificate program (like a minor).</p>
<p>Duke is not racist!!!
At least, not more so than any other top university. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education ranked Duke #1 for the quality of education and community for blacks. Also, please note that of the entire lacrosse team, only one was from NC and only one or two were from the South. In my experience, people from the North are much more racist than Southerners. An overreaction perhaps, but it's a sore point with most people in the South.</p>
<p>haha thanks warblersrule86. I like the emphasis; have you been having to answer that question a lot?</p>
<p>Which looks better for law school, a degree from Duke or Georgetown SFS? I know that there are many variables that are in play for grad school, but in general?</p>
<p>Duke has done very, very well sending students to top professional schools, but Georgetown isn't that bad either (sent 12 students to Harvard law last year). </p>
<p>I've crossed Dartmouth off the list.</p>
<p>Gosh...why would Duke be racist simply because it's in the south????</p>
<p>u got some fine schools to choose from</p>
<p>good luck</p>
<p>for me, it would be Duke or Dartmouth</p>
<p>IsleBoy...
Chill out.</p>
<p>I used to live in a small North Carolina town (Greenville) and it was pretty racist. So I'm just asking.</p>
<p>I don't see why it's that big of a deal to inquire about a stereotype. Isn't that better than blindly believing in it?</p>
<p>Thanks, bball87!
Where are you thinking of going?</p>
<p>Schools like Duke, Emory, Tulane, and Vanderbilt in spite of their southern locations tend to have northern mentalities.</p>
<p>And by the way. No matter where you go, THERE IS RACISM EVERYWHERE.</p>
<p>Why do you think Georgetown has "no school spirit"?</p>
<p>And if you "loveeeeeeeee" government, what could be better than Georgetown?</p>
<p>i am a freshman at Cornell</p>
<p>i got into a bunch of the schools on ur list last year (i.e. NU, Chicago, etc)</p>
<p>pri:</p>
<p>I did not experience that when I went to summer school in Chapel Hill. In fact, it seems that the South often is better intergrated than in the North.</p>
<p>Just an opinion. And, I'm chill. Just want to make sure that people don't reinforce particular stereotypes without experience as well.</p>
<p>IB.</p>