<p>I am on it! Give me a day or two.</p>
<p>Be sure to include UCSF in Berkeley’s tally… :p</p>
<p>Everybody just loves to hate on Duke – having come so far so fast (founded essentially in the 1920’s) people just think of it as a parvenu; this, combined with a successful sports program (read: dumb jocks) results in the school regularly getting dissed on this board. Of course, anything smacking of Wall Street these days is also fair game for nausea. I think we would much prefer going to Brown and becoming sensitive starving artists – this is what gets CC cred here.</p>
<p>how do you ask a question or start a new thread on this site?</p>
<p>placido, Michigan suffers the same as Duke. Universities with excellent academics and strong athletics attract much attention, both positive and negative. I guess our proud and roudy alums can be annerving at times! But I suspect the reason why Duke is not popular on CC is because the vast majority of its alums in these forums are trash. Only a couple of its alums show class. Guys like LesDiablesBleus far outnumber guys Warblersrule.</p>
<p>By the way, Duke’s ascention is not that unusual. Many excellent universities have come as far in a similar period of time. Stanford, Chicago, Caltech were all founded around 1900. The fact of the matter is, even the traditional powerhouses (universities like Harvard, Yale, Michigan, Penn etc…) were relatively small and very primitive until the WWI period. Only in the 1920s did universities really start to develop and grow. As such, it was not so difficult for newer participants to become relevant in a matter of years. Today, universities are much larger and take decades to improve, but back then, it could be done in a matter of 5-10 years.</p>
<p>“Alex, could you calculate a combined ranking that includes the USNews Top 6 Graduate Professional Disciplines (i.e., Business, Law, Medicine, Engineering, Education and possibly Public Affairs)? Altogether, that will be 18 disciplines (plus the 12 traditional disciplines in sciences and humanities/social sciences). The Professional Disciplines could be counted as 1/3 of the new ranking. The results should be very interesting.”</p>
<p>Don’t forget the rankings for Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Social Work. You can add others where Michigan excells too. hehe ;-)</p>
<p>“placido, Michigan suffers the same as Duke.”</p>
<p>Thanks to the combined efforts of Dukies on this site.</p>
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I’m not sure what other Duke posters are on this site but I respect state schools like Michigan and Texas a great deal. They are underrated by the public and society in general and that must be taken into account when one makes a college matriculation decision but the opportunities are clearly there to be very successful.</p>
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It is if you want to work in New York, not so if you want to stay in Texas. I felt like the other schools like Brown and Duke that I was considering had a lot more national and international portability. My parents could afford it without too much pain as well.</p>
<p>Heck, I know an international from India that picked Michigan over half the Ivies and Stanford when the latter were cheaper just because he liked Ann Arbor and the school spirit so much. Then again, I know another classmate who’s paying 200k more to go to Columbia for Engineering over Michigan in-state just because its an Ivy.</p>
<p>To each his own I guess. We’re lucky to have so many amazing schools in this country.</p>
<p>This doesn’t hold up to the NRC rankings or the world university rankings.</p>
<p>Truth, the criteria for these rankings are completely different. If they upheld the same NRC rankings, this thread would be pointless…</p>
<p>Apparently, the next USNWR Graduate Edition will be released on March 12th, 2013. This will include updates to all the Humanities graduate programs as well as all major professional schools (Law, Business, Medicine, Engineering, Public Affairs, and Education).</p>