<p>What are some schools with a similar campus feel to Duke, that aren't quite as hard to get into?</p>
<p>I hear that Notre Dame is similar.. in terms of focus on academics and sports. ND is also slightly easier to get into..</p>
<p>I've heard Penn is similar (academic-wise, student-body wise) though Philly is probably a lot more interesting than Durham</p>
<p>Northwestern University and Duke seem to attract the same type of applicants.</p>
<p>The closest by far is Stanford - no other school has the same intense focus on Athletics and Academics. And there is quite a bit of overlap of the two schools.</p>
<p>A lot depends upon what you mean by "campus feel." Architecture? Student body composition? Faculty? Residential situations?</p>
<p>stanford/northwestern/upenn</p>
<p>most students are b/t duke and upenn</p>
<p>NU, Stanford, Penn, Dartmouth - for a Southern counterpart, Rice for engineers</p>
<p>Most overlap is with non-Harvard and Yale ivies in terms of applicants</p>
<p>I've never been to most of these colleges mentioned here... but</p>
<p>want to believe Stanford is similar to duke (although completely diff. architecture in pictures) but for same reasons mentioned above, plus the weather!</p>
<p>I never knew duke was similar to northwestern at all.. that's interesting</p>
<p>For architecture I read on one College Search thread that Duke was modeled after Princeton. Is that true? The architecture looked similar.. except that Duke's chapel and campus was bigger :)</p>
<p>Is Columbia in anyway similar to Duke?</p>
<p>Columbia is nothing like Duke!</p>
<p>Yeah, Duke was inspired by Princeton. James Duke liked the way gothic architecture made the Princeton dorms appear to be old (even though they were new). He wanted the same effect at Duke. </p>
<p>Not as hard to get into: Notre Dame, Vandy, Wake, BC</p>
<p>yeah....the OP wanted schools that are easer to get into. I wouldn't say Stanford and UPenn exactly fit that category...</p>
<p>Well...if she has a .95 chance of not getting into Duke...and she applies to Penn, Stanford, Dartmouth, Princeton, etc. then her chance of getting into one school still increases (.95<em>.97</em>.96...etc) </p>
<p>Ok, that was lame.</p>
<p>But, check out Emory, Vanderbilt, Lehigh (I know people might disagree with this one), Wake Forest, Michigan among many others for backups.</p>
<p>just thought i'd point out that math doesnt really work that way ;-)</p>
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just thought i'd point out that math doesnt really work that way ;-)
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<p>bsballstr...I am (italics here) an Econ major</p>
<p>twas slightly incomplete...
1-RejectedByAll=AcceptedByAtLeastOne</p>
<p>more reasonable than 1/3+1/3+1/3+1/3 = 4/3 = "statistically guaranteed", however.</p>
<p>blah blah blah you can keep your elite engineering education and let me be happy with not Withdrawing from Math 103 lol.</p>
<p>.... lol i dont know about elite ....</p>
<p>perhaps Dr G can comment on that one</p>