<p>Just a comment about the “prestige” of duke. I have 2 anecdotal stories about it in comparison to uva’s. </p>
<p>I’ll preface the first one with my sister was a super-star at UVa. When she was looking for jobs, she was looking at many of the best jobs you can get out of the Comm School. She used to say how many of the companies she was looking at only recruited from a few schools (most of the Ivies, UVa, Williams). She never mentioned duke kids being in the interviews–and has never mentioned knowing anyone who went to duke while living in boston or new york (she knows lots of kids from UVa, MIT, Williams, Dartmouth, and Yale in these places).</p>
<p>I’ll preface the second story with the fact that I’m not really looking for a long term job for next year (just something for 1 year until I go to grad school) and also it really isn’t about duke. I also have no where near the GPA, nor the activities that my sister had at UVa. But I’ll tell you this, when I walk into an interview and the people all have degrees from rutgers or montclair state, the person interviewing me definitely seems very impressed with UVa.</p>