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Sam, Duke’s acceptance rate was 13% for the Class of 2015 and the corresponding number for U of Chicago was 15.8%. Duke also has a 44.3% yield and the last stated yield figure for Chicago is about 39%. The test scores are hard to compare because Chicago doesn’t release a CDS for some reason and Duke’s most recent one is dated by a year.</p>
<p>By the way, Chicago advertises with admitted students stats as well. This is what most schools do. I doubt they are too much different from enrolled stats to be honest.</p>
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There’s no way you can generalize an entire university that’s as diverse as Duke or Northwestern or Harvard or whatever. There will be people with all sorts of personalities and attitudes. It sounds like you’re teaching your kids to be judgmental which is the exact opposite of the open mind philosophy you should be using when guiding your children.</p>
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<p>If you’re going to base your judgment of a university based on people who post on anonymous online forums, then that says more about you than the school you’re trying to criticize. I haven’t been on this site long enough to comment on the accusations you’ve made but the few Duke posters I see on this site like warblersrule and bluedog are incredibly helpful. In fact, there are a couple of state school representatives I’ve noticed that are a lot more vocal about their schools than any of the private schools but I won’t name names.</p>
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Sam, all I did was offer an opinion. Why are you so offended? The title of this thread was “What is the best Midwest college?” so I picked one instead of naming 5 or 10 like everyone else. Northwestern and Duke are peer schools. I don’t think I’ve suggested otherwise.</p>