@terminatorp @dukeblue2019 Is there a bank on campus and if so what/where is it? Are there ATMs on east campus? Thanks so much 
@neonpinklime Are you asking if there’s an actual bank on campus? Not in my knowledge - but we do have a major hospital on campus 
But as far as ATMs go, there are machines on both east and west. East campus, I believe, has a Wells Fargo Machine underneath the Marketplace (dining hall). West campus has multiple Bank ATM’s from a variety of companies, located in the Bryan Center (where many upperclassmen go to eat).
@mumz14 - Thank you. Any tips on what Duke interview expects and how seriously they take the interview would be greatly appreciated.
Happy Holidays & Good Luck to everyone!
@terminatorp Thank you for the information. My son was just accepted a few weeks ago ED and we are so excited for him. His older brother goes to UVa and they have a bank of america on campus (an actual branch) and when I attended UofR in the before time it too had a bank branch on campus (though I don’t remember the name of the bank). I’d like my son to have a bank account where the ATM fees won’t be too high? That’s why I was hoping there was a branch on campus. It sounds like wells fargo is the way to go and then he’ll just have to absorb the atm fees at the other machines.
Is not submitting the complete application before the priority interview deadline a guarantee that we won’t get an interview, or is it still possible to be contacted for an interview after the deadline?
the interviews are really more for cultivating alumni involvement than anything useful for admissions. People who don’t even get interviews (even though most applicants do) get into Ivies if you think they are important. Stanford for example won’t even interview applicants from california, their largest pool, even though they interview outside of CA. Interviews are one of the most misunderstood parts of the application after “holistic” review. read this if you have any doubts. Interviews are more likely to hurt an applicant (if they are anti-social etc…) than help someone get in…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-03-30/ivy-league-alumni-quit-admissions-interviews-as-success-slips
“Harvard University, Yale University and Princeton University began interviewing applicants in-person in the 1920s as a tool to identify Jews, according to Jerome Karabel, author of “The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton” (Houghton Mifflin, 2005).”
IMHO the only valuable part of the application by Dec. 20th will show Duke you like them enough to do their app first, more so than the actual interview.
Hi just joining the thread now - I finally submitted!
@anon145 in what way is holistic admissions misunderstood?
@movielover101 - “Holistic” admission is a utopian idea. Do these schools understand? I very much doubt it.
You will find “Truth” in every great school’s symbol or motto or mission statement. If anyone can define what “Truth” means, that would be a beginning.
How specific to Duke were everyone’s supplement essays? I mentioned DukeEngage, but I feel like lots of others probably did too… How many of you did? I’m hoping that since it’s so short, it won’t make a huge difference on my overall application.
@NameIsBlurryface If you’re talking about the optional one, I didn’t do it, but for the other one, I just mentioned an interesting Duke program and its diversity briefly at the end. I’m sure the students they accept all have very different ways of answering the prompts, though, so there’s no right way to do it! No use worrying now, right?
I applied to Duke yesterday and received my user account today. However, instead of directing me to an application portal, my page says stuff like “Student Records”, “Duke SISS Office Utilities”, etc. Is anyone experiencing the same problems?
@mayathepapaya - Yeah, you have to click around until you get to the to-do list.
@glasshours what do i press?
@mayathepapaya The portal won’t show anything about your application until you receive an email like “Your Duke application has been received”. For me, it came a day after the email about my login, so I was confused at first too.
@mayathepapaya - My portal didn’t show anything about my app on the main page until I received the email that @itsmyusername said, either. That being said, I just clicked around on random links and found the checklist on a different page; I think one of them said “student information” or something. My portal now shows the checklist on the main page, so I can’t go back and look for you, sorry.
@glasshours @itsmyusername thank you so much! I will keep an eye out for that e-mail
When do we get RD results?