<p>Officially less than one day to wait. Ahh!</p>
<p>I really wish you luck, guys. >.<</p>
<p>So nervous. Uuuuuugh D:</p>
<p>How are you guys passing the time?</p>
<p>Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I927 using CC</p>
<p>doin school work and studying for inevitable exams and stuff</p>
<p>@brightstack, just went through all 25 pages of this thread… didn’t exactly help reading some of the others stats. Does make me excited to see if everyone else gets in because I’m fairly certain I won’t.</p>
<p>This letter was sent a while ago, but is anyone else the daughter/son of an alum? My (actively donating) dad got a letter telling him that they were excited that I was applying. However, it also included the ED stats and proceeded to (in my opinion) let me down gently that chances of getting in are slim. Were there different forms of this letter? Would they have sent it to an alum whose daughter/son had a good chance of admittance?</p>
<p>Who all applied for economics, or plans to major in econ at Duke?</p>
<p>Just 24 hours until we all know! My heart’s going to explode and I’v already let my hopes come down. Can’t imagine how those with good odds of acceptance are feeling!</p>
<p>I’m so nervous! Duke has been my first choice since December and I’m really doubting that I’ll get in.</p>
<p>My objective stats are all solid but two dozen kids from my school applied and my area is already over-represented. And then add in the fact that admissions can be extremely random and the acceptance rate will be close to 10% this year.</p>
<p>But all we can do is wait.</p>
<p>@katiebuggers - Oh I’m with you on that! We’ll be here to congratulate everyone else, right? Haha. I’m definitely excited to see who gets in regardless.</p>
<p>Now is the time to offer the gratuitous GOOD LUCK to all of you guys! I don’t know exactly why anyone bothers to offer good lucks considering all of this is so far out of our hands it isn’t funny, but it’s still nice to hear.</p>
<p>@katiebuggers My mom is an alum and we got that letter too. I’m pretty sure they send it to all legacy applicant families, but I found the wording of it pretty discouraging as well.</p>
<p>Less than 24 hours guys, best of luck to everyone. :)</p>
<p>@brightstack- I’ve got a twelve page research paper due tomorrow, so that’s a great distraction…
except for the fact that I inevitably end up on here! And on naviance, obsessively checking stats of former students who got in.</p>
<p>@eniloracw good to know I’m not the only one who found it a little disheartening. My father and I actually laughed because we both saw it as maybe a way of saying “Hey… you’re daughter’s probably not going to get in, but you should keep contributing to the alum fund…”</p>
<p>@baddriver I’m so jealous! Not of the research paper… but of your naviance. Our guidance counselors took off past stats and the scattergrams so it wouldn’t show where current seniors are/aren’t getting in :(</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK EVERYONE! I look forward to meeting you at blue devil days! :)</p>
<p>I hadn’t even thought that it could show current seniors’ acceptances! I’ll have to check that out (gosh that seems like such an invasion of privacy).
But actually by school’s scattergrams don’t work too well for me, as my ACT is significantly better than SAT (36 v. 2260) and that’s the only score I sent but there’s not enough ACT scores to plot a chart.
I actually found some success using the naviance of Bethesta-Chevy Chase to see my chances. A different school, sure, but it is pretty local to me and the student body is somewhat comparable and they apply to WAY more top private schools than kids from my school do.</p>
<p>@katiebuggers – I got a similar letter from the U of Chicago (one parent alum) and got waitlisted. As if it’s going to make someone feel “less bad” if their kid doesn’t get in. I saw it as a waste of paper/ink/postage. We don’t donate enough for it to make a difference…and if we did donate a lot, I’m guessing they wouldn’t have put us on that mailing list. It was a nice confirmation of my application/packet/self, though, to at least match their requirements and get waitlisted. Am hoping a lot of the accepted students go somewhere else so that waitlist has some churn action, but I don’t expect it.</p>
<p>@baddriver & katiebuggers - I have a naviance but I’ve never seen/used the scattergrams… how do you get to those from your “colleges I’m applying to” page?</p>
<p>@ispeakthetruth On my Naviance it’s on the left sidebar when you go to “Colleges I’m applying to.” I’m pretty sure it used to be under “College Research”</p>
<p>@baddriver, on mine if you go to a college’s detailed “profile,” it has a list of past classes with applied, accepted, and enrolled. It also has that data for the 2013 class, so that’s where the current stats come from. Also, if only one person applied to a certain college and you go to the scattergram…there’s their GPA and test scores right there… it can be pretty invasive so that’s why it’s blocked on ours haha</p>