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The Butler did it
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05/04/2010 08:33:26
 
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Sports
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Basketball
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>Wait, I think I've got it. It's not the players, it's the students, the self-described "Cameron crazies." They are about as crazy as a T bill. 95% of them are privileged kids who compound that accidental circumstance by basking in their basketball team's reflected glory. (Duke football sucks, which surely gives many of us enjoyment, LOL). They know their slots are waiting as doctors, lawyers, corporate titans. At fundraisers some day they will be able to say, "Yeah, I went to Duke. It was pretty crazy back then." As if.

I'm not going to spend the time to do the research this morning, but I'll bet that's not true anymore. Most of the really competitive schools draw their student bodies from a really wide range. That's part of what makes them so good.

FWIW, when we were college-shopping with Solomon 10 years ago, we almost didn't look at Amherst because we viewed it as an elitist successor for prep school kids. Solomon's counselor pushed us to look and what we found was very different than our mental image. I suspect the same is true at Duke.

Tamar
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