Word: duke
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...Duke they paint their faces, wear basketballs on their heads and have bonfires on the campus green. The zillion straight Final Four trips never seems to temper the spirits of the undergrads. More wins, more reason to party. A very simple philosophy...
...felt people there would look at me and think I'm only there because of affirmative action," says Jones, a resident of Los Angeles, who will be attending Duke University in the fall. "That's something I would have to deal with everyday of my life...
Aggressive recuiting and what she perceived to be a more tolerant campus led her to choose Duke, Jones says. A National Merit Scholarship finalist, a commended student in the Outstanding Achievement for Negroes Award and president of her school's African American Culture Club, Jones was recruited heavily by an array of top schools and was a hot commodity in the competitive college market for the limited pool of highly sought-after Black students...
...Perhaps most significantly, Harvard has need-blind admissions and need-based financial and, which limits its competitiveness against institutions like Duke, which are similarly deep-pocketed but are more willing to fund full scholarships...
...Jones also says Harvard's efforts to persuade admitted students to accept its offer are much less intense than at other colleges. After highly publicized racial incidents at Duke, for example, Duke embarked on a calling campaign to assure its admits that the administration was taking steps to alleviate the tensions on campus, according to Jones...