<p>Do I have a chance at his scholarship if i apply to duke
im looking for a full ride scholarship and this one is merit based, the only one i qualify for.
4.00 UW
4.22 W
3/231 rank
Aps Euro-5
Chem-5
Bio-5
taking 5 this year
all honors and aps throughout high school
2170 SAT
690 Cr
740 M
740 Wr
SAT II 740 US
730 M-I
thanks for responses</p>
<p>I would say absolutely not according to the information you've provided. Your scores, while good, are by no means outstanding or exceptional among Duke students. As a Duke '08 member, I've gotten to meet a few ABs and believe me, these people are amazing in and out of the classroom. Why don't you look up profiles of these students and their accomplishments and see if you are comparable?</p>
<p>what would i need to do to make myself a competitive applicant? increase my sat score?</p>
<p>I'd worry about getting into Duke before worrying about the scholarship.</p>
<p>Increase the SAT and do one or more of the following:
1)Cure cancer
2)Single-handedly bring peace to the middle east
3)Find Osama
4)Lead the Cubs to a World Series title</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Real world advice - do your best but do not count on being a candidate for or receiving any scholarship based on merit and/or service. It may happen but most likely will not. Be realistic with regards to your ability to afford Duke based on EFC.</p>
<p>Duke's SAT range is 1330 - 1530, and you are on the lower end of that (remember at the 1330 is brought down by athletes and the such, of which Duke has many more of compared to similar institutions). If you apply early you have a decent chance of getting in (they like interest). Every year it gets harder too, since those SAT ranges are based on data from a year or two back.</p>
<p>You have a shot at getting in but not at the AB scholarship.</p>
<p>yea, the AB duke scholarship is for not just brilliant kids, but for insanely, off-the-charts, make-einstein-look-like-a-mindless-blob sort of kids. In the past, the kids who have won the AB duke have done things like dewormed a good portion of Africa, while at the same time single-handedly establishing a network of shelters for beaten women. You have to be a wunderkind to get it.</p>
<p>College admissions are something of a crapshoot, but the ab duke hype is for real.</p>
<p>Here's a typical former AB Dukie:</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haun_Saussy%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haun_Saussy</a>. </p>
<p>Not all of them are as accomplished, but a significant percentage do similar things (like win Rhodes Scholarships or start the PIMCO Bond Fund--that guy, Bill Gross, just gave over $20 million to Duke, which was half his 2004 bonus)</p>
<p>That's true. A couple years ago, three Duke students won the Rhodes scholarships in the same year. All of them were AB Dukes.</p>
<p>All you have to do is win a medal at IMO....that's really all...:D</p>
<p>AB scholar is like winning the Axline scholaship at Caltech....</p>
<p>Two mysteries that I will never solve and never get.....</p>
<p>While I doubt the statistics exist, if I were to pick one discrete subgroup of college students who were most likely to succeed academically in the later lives, it might be the ab duke scholarship winners.</p>
<p>I didn't win it, but I did go to Oxford with the ones who did, and now, quite a few years later, they stand as exceptional, certainly more intensely successful than any particular group that I can see with HYPS, etc. </p>
<p>"Success" is, of course, an interesting concept, since it requires forgoing some typical pleasures. One of my best friends was an ab duke. She and I will now go to dinner, and she will then hit the gym and then go back to work at 11 and work for several hours and the be up at 6 to work for a few hours before anyone else is at her office. She is 45, makes over a million dollars per year, and she was recently asked by american airlines to do an ad because she had flown more miles than any other woman on american last year. She is also now brokering some of the Iraqi legal trouble and gets called by the richest and most legally troubled people in the country. another ab duke friend was haun saussy, who is listed above. Other friends who went to Yale grad school with him were in awe of his brilliance, but a good chunk of his brilliance was his willingness to work harder than almost everyone else. I noticed him carrying an organic chemistry text when we were in college. I asked what he was doing, and he said he decided to take organic because he was curious about what all the fuss was about. While a comp lit major, he made an A in organic. Both of these folks grew up in small, rural southern towns and are now big shots in the world. I could go on, but I did want to underline that a lot of this fussiness about which school is best is hogwash. If you want to seriously be the best, then you have to set your sights on excellence and then pursue it with a rare diligence. If you want to be a regular citizen, that is fine. But the difference between thse two types of lives will not be determined by where you went to college.</p>
<p>Great post....The thing you notice about many "brilliant" students is that they out-work everybody, but I think they have a lot of fun doing what they do.</p>
<p>There was a quote by one of the Siemen's WEstinghouse winners a few years ago. He did an extensive project about math and won the whole thing....He said that even if he hadn't won, he STILL would have done it....That is love right there.</p>
<p>"Do what you love, love what you do"
I don't know if it is true for every brilliant person, but I'm pretty sure it goes with many of them.</p>
<p>I don't feel (along with others) that I need to be "brilliant", although there is a definite mistique.
The only thing I wish is: I wish I loved doing something so much that I couldn't get enough</p>