1660/18000 is only 9.2% acceptance rate

Colleges and Universities A-Z Duke University
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<p>The official acceptance letter from Dukes states:</p>

<p>"The competition this year was extraordinarily keen – we received more than 18,000 applications for just 1,660 places in the first-year class. "</p>

<p>Does the 1660/18000 apply to only the RD or is that RD + ED? If it is combined that would be only a 9.2% acceptance rate. </p>

<p>ED acceptance ratio was reported as 464 of 1494. If you assume the 1660/18000 was only RD and add the RD and ED together it is (464+1660)/(1494+18000) it is still only 10.8% acceptance rate.</p>

<p>What happened to the 25% rate that Us News reports for Duke?</p>

<p>What gives??? </p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>Last year Duke accepted around 3800 (total) students to fill a class of 1660. Keep in mind that everyone that is accepted will not matriculate there.</p>

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<p>Duke has a really low matriculation rate. Around 40-50%, I believe. I think they just say that there are so many for so few spots to make the acceptees feel better about themselves and the rejectees not so bad.</p>

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<p>It should be around 20% this year, I'm guessing.</p>

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<p>Yeah, if everyone who got accepted decided to attend, that'd be dandy. But that's not the case. Same reason why UCLA doesn't have a 10% acceptance rate</p>

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<p>haha awesome</p>

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<p>see <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=46550%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=46550&lt;/a> for the stats.</p>