Duke Class of 2026 Admissions - RESULTS ONLY

This thread is for the high school class of 2022 to discuss their Duke admissions decisions. Please no discussion on this thread. Results only.

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Date Notified:
Decision:
Any merit aid:
Any need aid:

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Date Applied: October
Early/Regular: Early
Desired Major/School: Computer Science

GPA: 3.82 UW/ 4.32 W
SAT/ACT:30 ACT
Rank: 14/211(?)
APs/Honors: 4 APS, all honors
Extras/Hooks:President of some stuff, good trombonist and pretty good ECs I would say.
State residency: NC

Date Notified: December 1st
Decision: Accepted
Any merit aid: Applied for Robertson
Any need aid: Full need met.

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Absolute congrats, is this through QB since early!

Thank you!! : D

Yes, it was through QB! They let us know of our acceptance December 1st, but Duke does not give us our official financial aid letter and acceptance till the ED release date.

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how can we learn about our decision??? I am sooo nervous :sob:

I had applied through Quest Bridge, which gave us our decisions Dec 1st!

Thank you! and correct!

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Date Applied: November 1
Early/Regular: Early
Desired Major/School: Mechanical Engineering

GPA: 3.84 UW; 4.53 W
SAT/ACT: 1490 (Math: 780; EBRW: 710)
Rank: 10/232
APs/Honors: 9 APs, 9 honors
Extras/Hooks: Founder of my schools robotics team
State residency: Florida

Date Notified: December 16
Decision: Deferred
Any merit aid: N/A
Any need aid: N/A

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Date Applied: November 1
Early/Regular: Early
Desired Major/School: Sciences (premed)

GPA: 4.0 UW; 4.5 W
SAT/ACT: 1570 (Math: 800; EBRW: 770)
Rank: 20–25/500
APs/Honors: 16 APs, 6 college science courses at R1 university with As in each
Extras/Hooks: Founder of my school’s qb team
State residency: Texas

Date Notified: December 16
Decision: Deferred
Any merit aid: N/A
Any need aid: N/A

Date Applied: Just before the RD deadline - maybe 2 days before
Early/Regular: RD
Desired Major/School: Engineering (mechanical)

GPA: 98 unweighted (would convert to a 4.0; nothing lower than a 93)
SAT/ACT: 1550 (790m, 760V) 1 sitting; NMF
Rank: n/a
APs/Honors: Only allowed to take APs beginning junior year, has taken 7 (AP Physics C, APBC Calc and APUSH in 11th, and studied for AP Macro on own; AP Stat, AP Chem and AP Comp Sci currently). Lots of honors.
Extras/Hooks: Won high school junior history award; Won national Quiz Bowl (small schools) competition as a Jr. and is president of the club; Revived Model UN Club and traveled 2x to Harvard Model UN; Science Research with some local level awards; good ECs, but not major related or world changing; felt his interview was his best of the whole process.
State residency: NY

Date Notified: Ivy Day
Decision: Accepted (completely unexpected)
Any merit aid: No
Any need aid: $3,000

Date Applied: Jan 3.
Early/Regular: Reg
Desired Major/School: neuroscience, poli sci, and linguistics

GPA: 4.6
SAT/ACT: 33
Rank: 4/470
APs/Honors: 9 AP, 8 college, 13 honors/advanced
Extras/Hooks: wrestling, mma, president/founder of two clubs, vp of another, officer positions for a couple more, founder of fundraiser, work 20+ hours a week since 2017, know 4+ languages, translate, etc
State residency: Missouri

Date Notified: March 31
Decision: Accepted
Any merit aid: have not received my financial aid package yet. However, I am a QB student so I am expecting over 60,000.
Any need aid: “ “

I’m doing pre-law and pre-med which is why I have 3 majors :joy::joy:

Congratulations for your achievement.
Please can you let me know your extracurricular activities that might helped in admission.