<p>Oh… sorry I thought you meant Duke lol. Congrats!</p>
<p>have scholarship decisions been announced yet?</p>
<p>I Would assume those would come out with or after Admissions</p>
<p>Haha 4 days from the 27th at 7PM ET I don’t think I will last</p>
<p>@megamind me neither I’m going crazy with anticipation</p>
<p>@emmcar
Great seeing a fellow Rice-applicant on the Duke thread too! </p>
<p>@meghamind
Great seeing a fellow applicant on lots of threads!</p>
<p>@matrixsurgeon here’s another one! LOL</p>
<p>@matrixsurgeon I suppose misery loves lots of company</p>
<p>Well I’m also waiting with bated breath for duke haha</p>
<p>Only 3 more days!</p>
<p>@meghamind
You got that right! Lets just hope we are not in that company. ;)</p>
<p>Do you think Pratt or Trinity will be harder to get into? Judging from last year, Trinity had a lower acceptance rate, but things may have changed this time around.</p>
<p>I feel like when it is less than 10% the numbers dont matter anymore</p>
<p>I am somewhat sure that Pratt had a larger applicants spike this year.</p>
<p>Pratt will probably be statistically harder this year although in reality, I don’t think it really matters as each attract different types of applicants. </p>
<p>Just got waitlisted at Rice. That’s my 4th waitlist at a top engineering school, so I have no hope left for Duke. I don’t even know what to think about being wait listed 4 times. My scores/grades and really high and I have a lot of volunteering and involvement and leadership, so I guess my essays must be awful or something. Not a nice feeling, since statistically I’m good enough but these schools don’t seem to want me as a person. I know it’s all a crapshoot to some degree, but 4 waitlists definitely says something about me. Sigh.</p>
<p>@heptagirl I’m in the same boat as you. Everything falls into place statistically and I have a ton of extracurriculars, yet I still managed to get rejected at Rice. True, it was my first rejection, but now I’m freaked out about Duke (even more so than before.) Good luck to you. </p>
<p>Thank you @emcarr. Hopefully Duke will happily surprise us! </p>
<p>Seems like seeing same name again and again with waitlisted or rejection even though they have great stats and ECs…hmmmmmm. what is in common ? are you all pre-med track or need FA just trying to join the dots here.</p>
<p>My son has Duke as his first choice and ours was WUSTL, he got wait listed at WUSTL and I think it was the FA since WUSTL is need aware. Son will be really heart break if Duke reject him, He did a trip in summer and just in love with Duke campus … We made a big mistake not to apply Duke as ED and went with Harvard instead where he got deferred and at least not rejected… I hope Duke can give him the good News he been waiting for… </p>
<p>When I read these threads and see so many WL or Rejections and such a great stats just break my Heart, but I am sure you all will get into great schools all we need is 1 good School … May be duke is the answer …</p>
<p>Not on pre-med track, but needing some FA. Visited three of the schools I got waitlisted at, but was unable to visit Rice (too expensive and not in route with the driving trip I did). I did attend an event where they came to town with a few other schools, and also talked to an admissions rep at a college fair in our areal. I did interview with Duke but interest is not considered so I doubt the interview counts much either. (It went well, but certainly wasn’t “stellar” or anything.) I think I would have had a good chance if I applied early somewhere, but I just cannot financially commit to paying so much. While I can “afford” a private education, it would wipe out my family’s life savings and that’s ridiculous when I can go to a top-notch state flagship for 1/5 of the cost. Duke is the last school I applied to. We shall see. I’m Asian if that helps, but I don’t fit the annoying stereotype of perfect scores and no personality. Maybe that doesn’t become apparent enough on paper.</p>
<p>My course rigor also may not seem as intense as most everyone else’s on here, but that’s due to major scheduling issues at my school. I’m sure my counselor didn’t address that at all. A lot of other incredible students at my school get waitlisted/rejected from schools that should be begging for them. With over 500 people in most graduating classes, we usually have 1-2 people accepted to ivy-tier or similar schools each year. Wonder if that says something about our counselors and administration, since I know our teachers are excellent and we have so many kids smart and talented enough to go to amazing schools. Of course I’m also looking for reasons to ease my waitlist pain, but it really makes you question…</p>
<p>^^ Need blind schools normally dont consider FA status but need aware Schools do look at your FA.
Being Asians some time put you in a pool of Asians where academic expectations are much higher (just my theory) so you have to compete with other Asians Candidates who might have higher stats, or show enough that you not fall under particular stereotype. Lets hope duke brings out what you looking for…</p>
<p>I remember Duke sending us email in November to change our application from RD to ED, but we couldnt do it because of FA commitment without knowing our Full FA pkg, we can afford around 20k/yr but not more so FA is very important to us. Sons stats are ACT/34, GPA 4.0 & 4.89, 14 APs, School rank 1/578, Has a passion to be Doctor and shows that in his Essays, ECs in Medicine, Took school to many Math state championships which the School never went before… Hopefully 3/27th can bring in good news other wise he has some very good Full tuition’s from some great schools… I hope the best for the rest…</p>