<p>Whoops, never thought about that, doh!</p>
<p>Ha, my bad, wasn’t intending to rub it in. Just saying that i feel for you.</p>
<p>At least when you find out whether or not you got in it’ll be much closer to graduation</p>
<p>WOW, I definitely was not expecting THAT to happen lol. Good luck RD kids!</p>
<p>If my calculations aren’t too far off base, it appears Duke might be looking at an overall (ED and RD) acceptance rate of ~12% for the Class of 2014.</p>
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<p>Assuming a similar (RD) yield, the overall acceptance rate should be approximately 15%, which is still twice that of HYPS.</p>
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<p>27,000 =/= 26,400 </p>
<p>Do they teach rounding at Duke?</p>
<p>^ - tool.</p>
<p>Harvard and Princeton don’t have Early ANYTHING, and both Yale and Stanford have nonbinding EA. Duke has binding ED, which throws a big kink in the overall admissions percentage. Therefore, only a moron would directly compare <strong>overall</strong> admissions numbers. You CAN, however, compare RD numbers across the board, and Duke’s RD admit rate will be 10% this year, guaranteed. That’s not exactly “twice that of HYPS,” is it? Oh, and if trends continue, Duke’s yield will increase this year, as well, just like it did last year.</p>
<p>Do they teach you how to get pwned at whichever TTT school you attend? Apparently.</p>
<p>Not having early programs actually solidifies the selectivity of harvard and Princeton in that they dont have that buffer of binding ED students. </p>
<p>No one is saying Duke = HYP selective. Being the HYP reject school is what Duke currently is, and while it may change years down the road, it is not shameful. Every school other than HYPMS have this title as well. let’s calm down before it gets out of hand lol.</p>
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<p>…which makes their lower acceptance rates even more impressive than they already are! They cannot guarantee an Early 100% yield rate that correspondingly suppresses the acceptance rate…</p>
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<p>…which is exactly what keeps Duke’s acceptance rate artificially low.</p>
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<p>At this rate, Duke may not hit 50% before armageddon…</p>
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<p>If HYPS = TTT, then Duke = ???</p>
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<p>I am calm…</p>
<p>Do Dukies generally respond to statements of fact (12% =/= 15% and 26,400 =/= 27,000) with insults???</p>
<p>This is devastating.</p>
<p>prodigalson = interestingguy. it’s lame that even under a new facade, you maintain your habits and sense of elitism.</p>
<p>^^^ I am elitist, but I am not “interestingguy”…</p>
<p>Though you’re free to be paranoid that any CC member who posts a critical comment re: Duke must be “interestingguy”!</p>
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<p>Okay, so you want to play this game?</p>
<p>Care to tell me what Duke’s RD yield rate is???</p>
<p>HINT: It’s a lot lower than Duke’s overall yield rate (43%)!!</p>
<p>I didn’t get into stanford, and was waitlisted then rejected to harvard
I go to duke
My story is not unique.
there are a ton of students that didn’t get into harvard and the like, and a handful that did. There’s also many more that are just as qualified as most of the current students at harvard. There’s also a bunch that didn’t apply, and had they, still probably wouldnt have gotten in. End of the day, The rejects do (by quite a bit) outnumber those that did get in.
Do I care? Nope, I love it here and quite frankly, would rather not be around people like this prodigalson guy.
I go to duke, have a ton of fun, struggle in some classes, have ease with others. I don’t feel inferior to other schools; I know they are probably a little better than me at math or whatever else. But I also know I would rather compete on the Slightly lower end (if thats what you wanna call duke) academically, and when it’s all said and done, likely end up at the same bank, the same law school, or the same whatever that kids from harvard and princeton.
Hell, classes are a bit easier (probly curved a bit lower though), and I can guarantee that, especially these next three weeks (rush), or tailgate, or LDOC, Duke will see more fun being had than all of Harvard in a year. And that’s why I don’t give a damn what people say about it being a backup school</p>
<p>Had I gotten into Stanford or Harvard, I’d be there, not knowing what I’m missing out on</p>
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Yeah, he does sound a lot like interestingguy: the way he says “Dukies”, the fact that he isn’t applying nor enrolled at Duke yet still posts in this forum, and his post history topics are similar.</p>
<p>Every school I applied to has had substantial drops in acceptance rates. I DID apply to 10 schools though, so I guess I will contribute to the drop. Woo for being counterproductive!</p>
<p>The increase in applications has more to with a) the ease of applying with the Common Application; b) relatively low application fees; c) fear of not being accepted; and d) testing the waters for merit scholarships. My DS applied to 17 schools including Duke (so far). All colleges are probably struggling with how to predict yields for the 2014 class.</p>
<p>the overall rate should be about 13 % which is so scary considering that on Collegeboard Duke’s rate is 22%
I guess we can all hope.</p>
<p>^The College Board is horrible about keeping its data up to date. Last year’s acceptance rate was 17%. It will definitely be lower this year though.</p>
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<p>I don’t believe these are the reasons specifically for the huge surge in Duke’s applications, as the reasons you’ve mentioned are applicable EVERY year. If anything, the largest number of applicants to Duke should have been the class of 2013, as that class had the largest number of graduating seniors. There is something else that caused the increase in both ED and RD applications at Duke.</p>
<p>I guess all of this really means that there will be a lower acceptance rate but probably a lot more people waitlisted/accepted off of the wait list - don’t give up hope everybody! keep a positive attitude (law of attraction?) :D</p>