<p>@ Torcher: Same situation here. I’ll be going to Emory if I don’t get a good financial package from my other top choices.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if Duke sends the decisions through regular USPS mail or only via email?</p>
<p>they send you an email a couple days before with log in information to check your status but you can’t log in until monday</p>
<p>My son just received a “likely letter” in the mail today… I suppose that is what it is called? It was postmarked 3/22, arriving in IA on 3/25. </p>
<p>The wording of the first paragraph reads:</p>
<p>Greetings from Duke University! I am delighted to tell you that the Admissions Committee has reviewed your application, and we want to share with you the good news you are one of a small group of particularly outstanding applicants to Duke this year, a signal accomplishment in a pool of over 26,500 applicants. And while we will be mailing our decision letters quite soon, I wanted to give you an little bit of early good news that we fully expect to offer you admissions at that point.</p>
<p>Several paragraphs follow. You will note some grammatical errors- they are the admissions office’s- not mine.</p>
<p>@yorkiemom - Is your son an athlete who will participate in athletics at Duke?</p>
<p>Fla Pops- No, he is not an athlete of any sort. 
I do think that he is a strong candidate with top 1% scores, challenging classes (including college courses), national level awards in music composition, etc.</p>
<p>S was also a Duke TIP student for two summers- attending math courses at Davidson and Duke… I remember at a Duke TIP meeting on admissions for parents several years ago, they mentioned that 43% of the admitted students from a recent class had been involved with Duke TIP (if my memory is correct).</p>
<p>At the bottom part of the decision website it says </p>
<p>‘Please note that the PIN and password we will send you on Thursday, March 25 is distinct from your Admissions Checklist username and password.’</p>
<p>And i realized that i did not even receive the Admissions Checklist username and password…</p>
<p>have you all received it?</p>
<p>S will have to check his email for the PIN and password. I’ll post as soon as I know when he receives them.</p>
<p>mahedonist: I did!</p>
<p>i haven’t… but my email’s weird</p>
<p>i havent either</p>
<p>I got cornell & Upenn, not duke</p>
<p>I haven’t gotten my pin yet</p>
<p>No PIN from DUke yet here either (CA.) We already have a Duke ED from our HS.</p>
<p>@mahedonist: </p>
<p>The Admissions Checklist username/password arrived in an email sometime after his application was received (RD, so it was probably in January). The checklist became “active”/available for my son sometime in mid-February, if I remember correctly. Have you been checking the VIP page to check the status of your application? </p>
<p>[Duke</a> University:VIP Page](<a href=“http://duke.askadmissions.net/Vip/Default.aspx]Duke”>http://duke.askadmissions.net/Vip/Default.aspx)</p>
<p>Here is the email he received:</p>
<p>Duke University Admissions Application Confirmation</p>
<p>January 22, 2010</p>
<p>Dear ******:
Greetings from Duke! We have received your application and are sending this update to be sure that we have correctly entered important information and to inform you how to check the status of your application on-line.
Important Information about Checking on Your Application and Receiving Your Decision:
To check the status of your application on-line, visit our home page athttp://<a href=“http://www.admissions.duke.edu”>www.admissions.duke.edu</a> and click on Application Checklist located under The D: header.
You can monitor your application status, and eventually receive your admissions decision on-line—if you want. If any material is missing from your application, we will notify you by February 6, 2010. Please add the following email addresses to your email address book to make sure you receive communications from our office:
<a href=“mailto:duke2010@de1.uga.duke.edu”>duke2010@de1.uga.duke.edu</a>, <a href=“mailto:undergrad-admissions@duke.edu”>undergrad-admissions@duke.edu</a>
It is important that you keep us up-to-date throughout the course of the year. If any information changes—in particular with regard to disciplinary or legal issues—between the time you submit your application and the time the admissions process concludes, you must notify us right away. This means if you are admitted to Duke, you must keep us informed about changes until you enroll as a student.
Verifying Your Information:
Please check the following information for accuracy and let us know if any corrections are necessary. Mark through any error(s) with a single line and write the correct information to the right of the incorrect information. Please be sure to print all corrections legibly since faxes are sometimes hard to read. If the information is correct, you do not need to do anything. If you are returning this sheet with corrections, remember to sign at the bottom, and make a copy for your records. You can email us at <a href=“mailto:undergrad-admissions@duke.edu”>undergrad-admissions@duke.edu</a>, fax us at (919) 681-8941 or mail to:
Duke University
Office of Undergraduate Admissions
Attn: Application Information Corrections
2138 Campus Drive, Box 90586
Durham, NC 27708-0586</p>
<p>FWIW, Son has received Cornell decision password/username email, but not Duke.</p>
<p>I haven’t either! But we should be getting it today so it’s all chill :)</p>
<p>I got Duke + Cornell + Columbia + UPenn :)</p>
<p>Are you guys referring to Grad programs or Undergrad?</p>
<p>Duke will notify on-line at 5pm Eastern on Monday, March 29.</p>
<p>@snavedriver isn’t it 6pm EST? …freaking out here.</p>