<p>Apparently, just this morning. Sadly, my son was wait-listed. But he's got acceptances from other schools he's excited about, so this too shall pass. :-)</p>
<p>Good luck to all of you kids who are waiting to hear!</p>
<p>My heart sank when I saw this post. I apparently went to the website to check.. but mine isn't online. Does anyone know whether they all go online at the same time?</p>
<p>just checked - my sons decision is not there - still just a listing of when they received his application, etc.</p>
<p>Will they be online this week? Or is it the 1st of April?</p>
<p>legalpeach, was your son part of any special applicant group?</p>
<p>i checked as well .. my decisions not online as well ...</p>
<p>mine neither</p>
<p>It would have been a pleasant surprise-- if the decisions had been online.. :)</p>
<p>it would of course be a surprise ... but i can't say pleasant for sure ...</p>
<p>anyways ... hope the decision will be pleasant ...</p>
<p>and once again, i can't even check whether my decision's online or not,
because, apparently,somebody activated my account and i don't have the password =(
i'm dying to know!!! (altho i'm pretty sure i'm rejected lol)</p>
<p>chrisia-- did you call the office to tell them?</p>
<p>yep -
but the thing is, every time i make a call, that automatic answring machine's on,
and even tho i left messages, i don't think i ever got an actual answer back.
meh - i'll eventually find out i guess, it's all good ;)</p>
<p>Chrisa - I'd keep pursuing it...is there a different number you can call? There are other reasons for being able to access your online account beyond the admissions decision. Last year for admitted students they had a link for "ask-a-student" and "ask-admissions" and also provided a place for accepted students to post profiles and pictures. This was really a fun feature for our son and added to the enthusiasm he had for his future school. Good luck!</p>
<p>ooooooof~
oh man, that sounds fun :)
aiiiitz, another reason to keep calling them!!
thanks!!</p>
<p>ARE YOU PEOPLE TRYING TO GIVE ME A HEART-ATTACK!?!!!!!!!!!!?????</p>
<p>OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>i almost died just now...DONT DO THAT.</p>
<p>i thot my heart would not be able to make it to see the decison...but it wasnt there.</p>
<p>im still shaking vigourosly with adrenaline...whoever did that..thanks alot!!!!</p>
<p>Give us the direct link to where ur son found the decision posted please.</p>
<p>It is not online..</p>
<p>Hi folks -- well, I am feeling badly that I may have panicked you for nothing. Perhaps only the WL decisions were posted, or perhaps I literally stumbled across my son's letter seconds after they posted it. I would say -- and this is a wild guess -- that if you see nothing so far, maybe that's a hopeful sign. Hang in there, kids.</p>
<p>You asked if my son was part of a special group. Nope, just an RD kid, but to me a very special kid, naturally. We have thought all along that Duke was a bit of a reach, but nothing ventured, you know? My son is a Duke legacy (he's got a very sad Dad today) and had distinguished stats but not top-of-the-mark stats like so many of you do. He had 1490 SAT I's, 690, 710 and 690 on three SAT II's. Tiny high school with unorthodox narrative grading and no GPA "officially" calculated, but calculatable from his numeric transcript at roughly 3.9 on an unweighted scale. Five APs. Mr. Sports Everything in high school, lots of accolades and leadership roles etc.; small number of academic honor awards; deep involvement in extracurricular community service stuff with leadership roles; long history of creative entrepreneurship too. And, I'm told by his college counselor, great teacher and counselor recs. He had what he felt was a very good local rep interview, and I'll bet it was. Adults tend to love him and in marketing parlance he "presents well"; he's handsome, buff, comfortable with himself, charismatic and gently humorous around adults (honest, this is ALL objectively true, I say as his mom :-)). And he wrote essays that other objective educated adults thought were fabulous. His best Duke essay was written about what he learned from a harrowing experience he (and we) had when he was with a leadership school group in the Cascade Mountains wilderness last summer on a three-week trek, and he got separated from his group and was lost for a couple of days without his pack, water, food, jacket, etc. We're talking sheriff's search parties on horseback, on foot, search dogs, Air National Guard Blackhawks, his parents flying in from Georgia -- I'm not kidding or exaggerating. A horrific experience for us all, including him. But he kept his wits about him, used downed timbers to set up signage visible to search parties from the air, found clean water and shelter for the night, and used some kind of triangulating calculation to follow the sun so that he eventually find his way to a logging road he remembered seeing -- where a Ranger crew intercepted him on the second day. I thought his essay's reflections about that experience were amazing. But heck, I'm his mom, what do I know? :-)</p>
<p>So the moral of this story, I suppose, is that those of you who DO get into Duke should know that your accomplishments are truly rarefied and that you're special kids who deserve to be VERY proud of yourselves. And those of you who get WL's like my dear son are every bit as entitled to feel great about yourselves, as he is. I'm sure your parents say, as we often do, that you're going to get into schools that WE NEVER COULD HAVE. I can tell you that my hubby's high school credentials wouldn't get him past the automatic NO letter from Duke today.</p>
<p>As for my son, his current first choice of the schools he's gotten into (he's got choices, which is nice, and we've a few more letters to go) is UNC-Chapel Hill, where he was very pleased to be accepted as an out-of-stater. On his campus visits he genuinely loved UNC as much as Duke and has been saying this was going to be a very tough call. I'm a native North Carolinian myself, so Duke or UNC would have pleased me no end. I'm kinda glad, in a way, that there's no tough decision to make other than whether or not to send that post card back to Duke and hang in there. And I know without a doubt that my son will be happy as a clam wherever he ends up, and will continue to make us and himself proud.</p>
<p>You will all end up going to college someplace wonderful, and you'll make all of us old parent-types quite happy in the process.</p>
<p>Best of luck to all of you!!!!!</p>
<p>legalpeach...where did u get the decision from???.............seems that no one else has got theirs ???</p>
<p>The decision letter was visible from his main status check page. There was a button to push to access it.</p>
<p>Don't hit me, kids. I was just trying to help and oh my, I seem to have made you all feel worse. :-(</p>