The site of AB Duke Scholarship is down this moment, dose anyone know the procedure for applying it? To apply this scholarship, should one has to do the ED and application to get the chance or RD also Okay too? If go with ED, dose it have a better chance than RD? Any ideas? Thanks.
Basically it’s up to the discretion of the admissions officer who reads your application whether or not to recommend you for the A.B. It’s a pretty opaque process, and usually they’re given to students in the R.D round as incentive to draw the most “gifted” students away from schools like Harvard and Stanford. But unless ur in the upper middle income bracket or an international student, Duke’s financial aid should be adequate (at least in my experience).
If my understand is right, please correct me, there is no separated application for the scholarship but fully depend on the moment of the officer who reads the admin application. Sounds like the RD may have a better chance as they using this way to attack students who may go to other top schools. @ldoc97
@Briar L I don’t believe it necessarily matters. I know someone who received a Duke scholarship after applying ED. If you genuinely want to apply ED to Duke, I do not believe you should change your mind based off of wanting to be in the pool for the AB Duke, which is only given to a highly elite number of students. The difference in Duke ED and RD is real and those who ED have a much greater chance.
OP, are you an international student? Give us a sense of your standardized test scores.
@JenniferClint No, Not an international student. ACT 36 (one time); top 1% in a 400+ east coast public school with several research projects in some top nationwide schools, One paper is going to publish on a top professional journal with advisor.
@Pastpower The point is that if no chance or a low chance for a Duke scholarship when Duke ED, I’m going to have more chances for Columbia/Yale/U Chicago/MIT based on our school data.
You may want to consider contacting your Duke regional admissions officer. Explain your “predicament”. You sound like a great candidate (I wouldn’t value my opinion much) and Duke has proven flexible in our family experience in trying to be flexible to attract students they want.
Good luck