<p>I got a 780 in Math, 710 in Writing (10 Essay, 69MC), and 690 in CR. All my other aspects are fairly good. This is the only one I am worried about. I want to ED to Duke, but I am wondering how big of a reach this is going to be. Have any of you been accepted with a similar SAT score?</p>
<p>I got a 780 on Math and 690 on CR (plus a 760 on W) and I was accepted RD a couple years ago. That being said, I did have a very unique hook and I am a strong writer so my essays were good. Focus on showing the admissions committee two things: 1) what you can contribute to the Duke community and 2) why Duke is a good fit for you and you’ll have a shot.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted with a 2350 SAT score…</p>
<p>So, as clich</p>
<p>So if I need to concentrate on something specific in the essays, I need to know whether to choose the Pratt College or the Trinity College. I would like to go into medicine in the future. Which school is better for me to apply to?</p>
<p>i got in with a 1430/2110 SAT and a 33 ACT (corresponds to 1460/2190)</p>
<p>I got a 2190 on my SAT, but I sent my 34 ACT instead. I was deferred ED then accepted RD. I would recommend taking the ACT in September and/or October and retaking the SAT in October. A 2180 won’t keep you out of Duke ED, but it won’t help you either, so try to do some prep work over the summer and possibly make your test score one of the strong parts of your application. If the rest of your application is absolutely outstanding then I wouldn’t worry about it too much, but that wasn’t the case for me so I focused on getting my ACT score up. Good luck!</p>
<p>I got into Pratt this year with a 1340/2010</p>
<p>I got a 2170 (superscored) on my SAT but opted to send my ACT (35 w/o writing, 34 w/writing) instead.</p>
<p>obviously… I know kids who got 1800s… the main take-away I’ve gotten from my conversations with other Dukies about SAT/ACTs is that they really don’t matter once you get in the 2000/30 ballpark. </p>
<p>I had a 2340/35, but honestly I don’t think it helped me that much.
Focus on your essays, take the SAT as many times as it takes for you to feel content (aka you’ve reached your best score in your mind), but I for one wasted way too much time agonizing over scores only to find how useless they were.</p>
<p>I was a val, lots of Pres/VP positions, 250 hours of comm service at a unique place, 2360 on my SATIIs, NMF, 2340/35, spent forever on my essays, and for all of that I was rejected at Yale & Stanford, waitlisted at Harvard & Wharton, accepted at Duke, Cornell, Vandy, and UVA. </p>
<p>AKA It’s a crapshoot. You really don’t know how it’s going to go so just let it happen and forget about it. (though I know how hard that is)</p>
<p>GL, Duke is worth the trouble 
best place in the world</p>
<p>got in with a 2130 SAT (superscored- 720 CR 630 M 780 W) and a 31 ACT</p>
<p>2060 here. Maybe sat isn’t everything? Stop worrying.</p>
<p>Best friend got in with a 2150, currently attending there. They just want to see if you can get past a certain threshold. They’re not going to look down on you that much cause somebody else answered a few more questions correctly than you did.</p>
<p>…to echo what others are saying, the key thing to getting into Duke is the strength of your academic performance at your high school. It is NOT your SAT/ACT test scores!!!</p>
<p>They look at it this way: 1) did you take the most challenging curriculum available to you (taking into account, of course, scheduling difficulties and challenges which you do not control)? 2) how did you DO in those classes? 3) did you develop a particular ‘mastery’ in one particular subject? (ie, are you the Latin king of your school, going through six classes and culminating with Virgil, and not able to go further…).</p>
<p>There is waaaaaaay too much focus on the one test, for some reason, and it’s been that way for awhile. Dude a school like Wake Forest (one great school) doesn’t even CARE what you made on the SATs!! That test is truly diminishing in level of importance in the admissions process.</p>
<p>Take as many APs as you can, love what you learn, stay out of the papers, do community service to help people around you and impact their lives and yours, and wind it up and go. Work on a cure for cancer wherever you go. Millions of people will thank you and NOT ONE person is going to really care what you ever made on a stupid SAT test. Go, bro!</p>
<p>–the kitesurfer.</p>