Chances of getting into Duke ED

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I’m a junior this year, and I’ll be applying Early Decision next year. Duke is my dream school!!!

Majors & Minor: Environmental Studies & Public Policy, with a minor in Visual Arts

GPA: 3.75
SAT: 1450 (I took 3 subject tests, I haven’t gotten the results yet)
ACT: 33

AP Courses (including senior year):
AP World History, AP Environmental Science, AP Seminar, AP Research, AP Psychology, AP Biology, AP US History, AP Art History, AP Statistics, AP US Gov, AP Macroeconomics

Dual Enrollment Courses:
English Composition I & II, Ethics, Astronomy, Intro to International Relations

All my other classes that weren’t AP and they offered honors, I took them.

Extracurriculars:
-President & founder of the Environmental Club (sophomore year-senior)
-Class VP this year
-Student Body President (next year)
-Historian of Student Government
-SGA for 3 years
-Class Board for 4 years
-National Honor Society VP (next year)
-National Science Honor Society
-Pottery Club
-Model United Nations Club

Other:
-Pre-college program at Duke last summer
-Letters of Recommendation: from a teacher that I’ve had for 4 classes, and the sponsor of my club and have known him for 3 years, he told me that I’m his best student in his 14 years of teaching. I would also get my class board sponsor that I’ve known since freshman year and I took 4 of her classes she could vouch for my school service and academics. And my principal has agreed to writing me a letter for my help in the school.

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And I’m getting an AP Capstone Diploma

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It sounds like you’ve made an impact on your community, have passions that you’ve following through on, and have solid stats. (Although not sure if your school has class rank – if so, you’d want to be top 10% at least which hopefully a 3.75 is). Long story short, you’re a competitive applicant for Duke certainly. Nobody on this site can predict with precision the adcom’s decisions when acceptance rates are as low as they are at Duke, but on a cursory glance, nobody could say that your candidacy is doomed from the start based on the information provided. You certainly mentioned a few things that stand out (founder of new club, student body president, likely very positive recs). Just convey the message of how you’d contribute positively to the Duke community and continue your passions if given the chance at Duke, and you certainly have a good shot at Duke accepting you. Good luck!

And not sure why you posted the almost identical thing in two separate threads. Just saw the other one, but doesn’t change anything I said above.

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Thank you so much!! And yeah I wanted to make it more organized looking, but I couldn’t figure out how to delete the other one haha.