Originally Posted by
cspan37421
1) Wake is a tiny school by comparison. Half of Duke's size.
2) Perhaps they grade harder. They don't call it "Work Forest" for nothing, you know.
(and by "they", I mean someone my wife heard it from in the 80s when she was there)
The numbers, please:
Wake has 4,812 undergrads and total enrollment of 7,591.
Duke has 6,471 undergrads and total enrollment of 15,850 (as of fall 2014).
Other undergrad student body sizes of interest:
Northwestern - 8,000
Stanford - 6,980
Vanderbilt - 6,851
Harvard - 6,700
Yale - 5,414
Princeton - 5,391
U. of Pennsylvania - 10,406
Dartmouth - 4,276
Cornell - 13,935*
Brown - 6,182
Columbia - 8,365
* Cornell has some NY State-sponsored colleges, such as Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013