Penn or Duke?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>I want to go to college to experience a college environment. Duke has that. Penn, I felt didn’t. These are supposed to be the best four years of your life. I think one should make the most of it. Hence why I chose Duke. </p>

<p>Again I’ll go back to USNWR… Duke 8 Columbia 8 Penn 6. Those look about the same to me.</p>

<p>I’m not annoyed. I used all the info in this thread to decide and I chose Duke. How is the thread pointless?</p>

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You asked for opinions but ignored everything positive about Penn, therefore rendering the thread pointless.</p>

<p>You can’t say that Penn doesn’t give a “college experience.” Again, no one would be saying anything positive about Penn on this thread if they didn’t think it was fun.</p>

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<p>I didn’t ignore it. Just because I didn’t choose Penn doesn’t mean I ignored them.</p>

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<p>OK, I’m sorry that I sparked this off, I just felt that Penn was being slighted.</p>

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<p>Did you look into Penn Housing AT ALL? The Quad is an ALL-FRESHMAN community.</p>

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<p>No, it’s not. It’s mostly freshman.</p>

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<p>What 90%+ is not good enough for you? I hope that extra ~10% at Duke is worth it…On a brighter note, at least the ■■■■■ train will start disbanding now given that today was the last day to lock in a college. I don’t know how much more BS I can stomach without saying something that will get me IP banned…I’m probably going to despise Cornell for the rest of my life after listening to a whole month of their garbage. Talk about inferiority complexes…</p>

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<p>There’s like, 30 upperclassmen. That doesn’t change very much.</p>

<p>Anyway, I hope you enjoy Duke. I chose Penn over Cornell for a similar reason, I liked Penn’s feel more than I liked Cornell’s, even though Cornell is slightly (distinctly) higher than Penn in engineering. Each school isn’t for everybody.</p>

<p>Note: I didn’t read the previous pages, so if there’s more justification for your guys’s anger at glass than the bit I read, sorry.</p>

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<p>Good luck to glasstiger. Looks like s/he made the right choice. Perhaps that opens a slot for someone on Penn’s wl.</p>

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<p>At my D VERY competitive private high school here in Michigan, TWICE as many top kids ED to Penn than Duke. Even amongst the kids that apply RD to Duke and get in, a few choose to go to Michigan instead. Point is NO ONE has ever got into Penn and said “I’ll just go to Michigan.” In terms of selectivity; you hear “Ivies + MIT, Caltech & Stanford”: Duke is in the list of “Other Top Schools”. </p>

<p>Duke is a fantastic school academically and will offer a great undergraduate experience, but it is not a dream school in the mid-west that people aspire to. </p>

<p>Also, bottom line is FIT! This is the MOST important factor determining the quality of your four years at ANY school; NOT the reputation; NOT the rankings; or any of that. That makes for good cocktail conversation, but not to base your decision.</p>

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This coming from a future Penn student. Hee! </p>

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Really? Certainly people turn down top schools all the time for Berkeley, UVA, UNC, and the like. One wonders why Michigan is different!</p>

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Uh, let’s not go spreading nonsense. 8.10% of Penn’s class of 2012 is from the Midwest. 10% of Duke’s class of 2012 is from the Midwest.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/profile/[/url]”>http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/profile/&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“https://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2012profile.html[/url]”>https://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2012profile.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>And I’m assuming you’re yet another Cornelian? Or perhaps a Brown/Dartmouth kid?</p>

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<p>Lol whenever I would start up a conversation with someone and tell them I got into Penn, they always ask “Penn State?”. When I tell them I get in Duke, they say “OMG that’s so great! Congratulations!”. Granted, graduate schools know Penn is Penn, but I wouldn’t be so confident with the general population.</p>

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<p>That’s funny…most people I’ve talked to haven’t heard of Duke. That would probably explain why nobody from my school has gone there in the last 12 years (although we send plenty to Penn/Wharton and other ivies).</p>

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<p>Duke and Penn are peers, I cannot imagine anyone suggesting otherwise. I would choose Duke over Penn.</p>

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<p>Only people that I know that are impressed by Duke are southern prep types.
Everyone else thinks its a fantastic basketball school with tons of school spirit! RA! </p>

<p>Face it, glasstiger, Duke is a great school but not on the level of Penn. Regardless of how many laymen confuse it with Penn State (another school with tons of spirit, RA!) it will always be a higher institution.</p>

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<p>I have no idea how at the undergrad level you can say that. Duke’s grad placement is stronger, it is as or more selective if you look at the numbers, it has as good placement into top firms, and its endowment per student is much higher. I’m not saying its better than Penn, but to suggest that these two amazing schools have any difference in prestige (and I mean even a little) seems totally absurd to me.</p>

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oh really? you are either…</p>

<p>1) mute.
2) living under a rock.
3) lying(badly) to make Penn look better .</p>

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<p>Lol love these ■■■■■■ who got rejected from Penn and pick Duke (or probably any other school that is a notch below Penn) and pretend to have to decide to pick between the two, ending up against Penn.</p>

<p>Ignore these people… it’s just pathetic and sad. Focus on what an amazing four years you are going to have/are having/had already at Penn!!</p>

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<p>As much as people want to defend Duke, or claim parity with Penn, one need not look further than the numbers:
Penn gets nearly 70% of cross admits to both Duke and Penn. This de facto makes Penn at least superficially more selective: of the top students deciding between either school, 7 out of 10 will choose to come to Penn.</p>

<p>The other 3 - glasstiger, et al - go to Duke.</p>

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<p>IBclass06:</p>

<p>I said “specifically” at my D private high school, every year there is a kid or two that gets into Duke and prefers Michigan - that could be the case for any flagship state school. But NO ONE has given up Penn or an ivy spot to go to Michigan. </p>

<p>And as far as being a dream school in the mid-west, I was stating from observations and conversations that most top kids aim for ivies, MIT, Caltech, Stanford group FIRST and Duke is not YET seen in that peer group. The links you post show incoming class. Just because the % from mid-west is higher doesn’t mean that it is a preference - it could mean MORE kids from the mid-west got accepted to Duke; that doesn’t represent number of applicants. Perhaps, more kids from the mid-west matriculated to Duke because they didn’t get in the ivies.</p>

<p>Duke is considered the new kid on the block (age wise) and is obviously doing a fabulous job in improving it’s presence as seen from the rise in ED applicants this year. However, surprisingly, they started taking kids off their wait list BEFORE May 1st which is not a huge sign of confidence on their yield.</p>