<p>location and ethnicity are somewhat considered for top private schools (could be “unfortunately” or “fortunately,” however you want to look at it). but to answer your question, yes, they probably do. when i went for admit day, there was a good chunk of asians. around a quarter of duke’s student pop is asian, so yeah 
but this will neither break you or make you. i’m asian, from effing california (asian CENTRAL), and i got in…</p>
<p>and strawberrymilk, no duke would not simply just admit more in-state. it’s a private school. 85% of duke is OOS.</p>