Duke has a gorgeous campus and they’re big time in NCAA basketball, but other than that I’d have a hard time saying it was a larger university. Enrollment is dwarfed by some of the state universities.
I wouldn’t be so quick to recommend some of those huge enrollment state universities to this type of super achiever. There are problems enough with the “Ivies,” the public Ivies,” Duke, and Stanford, but at those schools the super-achiever student is surrounded (for the most part) with his/her intellectual peers. Not that there aren’t achievers at those huge schools, but as a % of the student body, not so many.
Meredith is far more likely to find a large # of other students who got perfect and near perfect scores at any Ivy or “Public Ivy,” or Duke/Stanford level of competitive entry university with their selective 15K enrollments than at a state university of 45K.
I think you mis-read.
She’s choosing to go to Alabama because it IS a larger school than Duke or Stanford.