is duke as legit as stanford?

College Search & Selection
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<p>as far as academics/prestige/grad school/resume... are the two schools relatively the same?</p>

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<p>Yes, I would say those two schools are peers. The slight edge goes to Stanford, but Duke is definitely a heavyweight.</p>

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<p>Prestige-wise, Duke is no match to Stanford to the general populace (dunno about employers, but I'm guessing Stanford is more respected there as well). Academics... Stanford seems to be more respected, due to its insane amount of top-10 programs, and nobel laureates up the wazoo (Duke has affiliation with about 7, Stanford with about 50). I never really met anybody who has placed Stanford and Duke on the same level of academic prestige (in an overall sense, I'm sure it differs on the departmental scale). Duke is great, but Stanford... is f'n Stanford.</p>

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<p>I think Stanford is a bit more prestigious than Duke generally, but yes they are pretty comparable.</p>

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<p>Stanford is leagues ahead.. yet Duke is also very prestigious.</p>

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<p>Stanford is better known, but here in Boston we east-coasters regard Duke VERY highly! Congrats to anyone lucky enough to have to pick between the two!</p>

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<p>Stanford is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Senior Colleges and Universities of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Duke is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Hence, they're both legitimate schools...does that answer your question? I would assume that you're not silly enough to be asking about prestige.</p>

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<p>I'd say that Stanford is more prestigious than Duke.. but Duke and Stanford are very similar in quality when it comes to academics.</p>

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<p>I suspect that if one were to check the cross-admit numbers for both, Stanford would easily come out ahead.</p>

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<p>Looking for this?:
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/09/17/weekinreview/20060917_LEONHARDT_CHART.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/09/17/weekinreview/20060917_LEONHARDT_CHART.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>fuzzylogic, I know that chart must be seriously inaccurate, because I was reading an article from the Yale newspaper itself that stated last year Stanford won 51% of crossovers (the first time Stanford beat Yale in history.) Also, it seems really odd to me that Georgetown would do so well against these schools when its yield is lower than most of them.</p>

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<p>The sample size is admittedly pretty small. Here's the link to the article that goes along with it:<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/weekinreview/17leonhardt.html?ex=1316145600&en=94d34ff57060717f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/weekinreview/17leonhardt.html?ex=1316145600&en=94d34ff57060717f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>So according to that article, the top universities according to enrollment rates are:</p>

<p>1 Harvard
2 Yale
3 MIT
4 Stanford
5 Princeton
6 Brown
7 Columbia
8 Dartmouth
9 Penn
10 Cornell
11 Georgetown
12 Duke
13 Virginia
14 Northwestern
15 Berkeley
16 UCLA
17 Tufts</p>

<p>But then again, many universities were left out.</p>

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<p>Interestingly, yield rates and cross-admit data don't always correspond. </p>

<p>Harvard: 79.3%
Yale: 70.3%
Princeton: 68.0%
Stanford: 67.4%
MIT: 66.7%
Penn: 66.2%
Columbia: 60.5%
Brown: 58.9%
UVA: 51.1%
Dartmouth: 49.5%
Georgetown: 47.2%
Cornell: 46.7%
Duke: 43.6%
Berkeley: 41.5%
Northwestern: 40.5%
UCLA: 38.6%
Tufts: 31.3%</p>

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<p>There's a reason why HYPMS includes Stanford and not Duke.</p>

<p>Altho, at this level - the differences shouldn't trump other factors such as fit, local, etc.</p>

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<p>academics/prestige/grad school/resume:</p>

<p>academics: yes, they are very close.
prestige: no, not the same. not at all.
grad school: somewhat.
resume: somewhat, depending on the area you go to find your job. e.g. west coast tends to see Stanford as a better university</p>

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<p>There are also kids that apply to Duke that have NO interest in Stanford at all. ;)</p>

<p>(Some east coast kids think it looks like a giant Taco Bell......)</p>

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<p>Amen to that. Duke is every bit as strong as Stanford in both of my majors, and I saw no reason to go completely across the country to get an equivalent education. The 45% Californians was also a bit of a turn-off.</p>

<p>To be fair, I think Stanford looks like a Taco Bell with golf course landscaping. :)</p>

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<p>Penn and Columbia both plays selective admissions by making interest as one of the biggest factors in admissions. The colleges (excluding state schools) that come out stronger than their yield indicates are usually the ones that do not.</p>

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<p>I can tell you that from a Southern perspective, Duke is potentially more prestigous than Stanford. Keep in mind, however, that most people around here have never heard of the Ivies outside of HYP and have incredibly little knowledge of Stanford.</p>