<p>I'm slightly confused. In the acceptance package it states that over 19,000 people applied to Duke this year, and only about 1,665 were accepted. That would mean the acceptance rate was about 9% this year. Does that seem EXTREMELY low to any one else?</p>
<p>They accept more than 3,000 students and expect a yield of 44% to result in a class of approximately 1600 students. The acceptance rate was 19%.</p>
<p>Yes, it's 19%, as not everyone accepted actually decides to enroll.</p>
<p>and that 19% figure, i believe, is for regular decision applicants only. Once you take into account the early decision acceptances (probably a slightly higher acceptance rate), Duke's overall acceptance rate for ALL applicants was ~22 percent (the number provided in the acceptance package)</p>
<p>Accionara, the figure 1665 represents the number of seats available in the freshman class, not the number of acceptances (which, of course, is several fold higher). Careful with the reading =)</p>
<p>(Note: the numbers released don't quite compute - either the number admitted was 100 less than stated, or the percentage admitted was slightly higher than stated. SEE:<a href="http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2006/03/admissions.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2006/03/admissions.html</a> )</p>
<p>Total apps: 19,358
Total admitted: 3,778 (19.52%)</p>
<p>ED: 1,501 apps, 470 admits (31.5% admit rate)</p>
<p>RD: 17,787 apps, 3,308 admits (18.6% admit rate)</p>
<p>Overall yield projected: 44% (1,665 matriculants)</p>
<p>ED yield projected: 95% (450 matriculants)</p>
<p>RD yield projected: 36.7% 1,215 matriculants)</p>
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<p>All of this is assuming no use of the waitlist</p>