<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White (Egyptian)
Home State: Massachusetts
Applying to: Trinity
GPA (Weighted out of 5): 4.48
SAT's: 2140 (760 M, 700 CR, 680 W)
SAT II's: US History 800 , World History 800 , Math II 720
Rank: School doesn't rank, splits into quintiles (top 20%)</p>
<p>Junior year courses (and grades for the year):
AP Biology (AP Exam: 5) --- A-
AP US History (AP Exam: 5) --- A
Honors Analysis/Pre-Calculus --- A+
Honors English --- B+
Honors French (Year 4) --- B+</p>
<p>Senior Year courses (and first quarter grades, second quarter grades so far):
AP BC Calculus --- B, B
AP Physics --- B, A+
AP Statistics --- A+, A+
Honors English --- A-, A-
Honors Political Science --- A-, A</p>
<p>Achievements, Activities, and other things:
Fluent in 2 languages other than English (Arabic, French)
Varsity Indoor Track and Captain
Varsity Outdoor Track and Captain
National Honor Society
Taught Arabic at a Weekend Religious School
Debate Club/Local JSA (Junior State of America)</p>
<p>Unfortunately, your guess is as good as ours. A lot depends on what Duke is looking for in the RD round and whether you fit that. For example, your Arabic may help if they're short on people interested in Asian languages. </p>
<p>I already sent a letter in to Undergrad admissions, talking about how much I still want to enter Duke. Also, my guidance counselor called the Duke Admissions Officer for my region and he said that the reason why I was deferred was because even though I have potential, my grades are kinda middle-of-the-road/average for an applicant, and he wants to see an improvement. My grades for Freshman and Sophomore year were:</p>
<p>Freshman Year:
Honors Geometry --- B+
Honors Earth Science --- A-
Honors World History --- B+
Honors French (Year 2) --- A-
Regular Freshman English --- A-</p>
<p>Sophomore Year:
Honors Algebra 2 --- B+
Honors Modern World History --- B+
Honors French (Year 3) --- B+
Honors Chemistry --- B+
Regular Sophomore English --- A</p>
<p>Right now I'm thinking the Admission officer wants to see me improve my Calc and Physics grade. I think I can improve Physics into the A range, but I don't see my Calc grade improving in to the A range since it is the hardest course our school offers.</p>
<p>I was informed by my college counselor that Duke "flags" thirty percent of the deferred students as very viable candidates for the regular round, and it is really from that pool that the "ten percent" of the deferred are accepted from in the regular round. Assuming you are a flagged deferee, I estimate you have about a thirty percent chance of acceptance rather than ten percent...basically you are right back where you were when you applied early (ED acceptance rate was roughly 30 percent)</p>
<p>If that's true then I REALLY hope I'm a flagged deferee, bc they said they deferred 50% of the ED applicants and 10% of those 50% ---> not very good chances</p>
<p>I'd recommend two things:
1- Improve your grades, since you can forget about SATs
2- Take language assessment tests for Arabic and French. On paper, if you say "Oh, I can speak 3 languages very fluently, english, arab, and french" won't really impress the adcoms (my guess), so take those tests to PROVE how good u are in those languages.</p>
<p>The grades: Yeah, I'm trying. It's easier said than done. What do you mean by "forget about SATs?"</p>
<p>The languages: What sort of tests? I don't know of any tests that prove you can speak a certain language except for the TOEFL (English), which just doesn't apply to me. Also, I think if they had wanted me to prove I can speak those languages they would've indicated that somehow</p>
<p>FLEX just seems like a class that teaches new language/build basics for learning a language...at least that's what I got from the link you gave me. Not applicable here...</p>
<p>Try your very hardest to get your grades up. If your admissions officer said that your grades were key to your deferral, then how can you expect to get in if you don't change those grades? It ain't magic.</p>