maybe not a huge difference but here’s what IvyCoach says:
“Of these 5,000 ED applicants to the Class of 2025, Duke’s admissions office anticipates admitting between 800-850 applicants. To put this number in historical context, Duke offered admission to 887 students out of last year’s ED pool. 882 students earned admission in the ED round to the Class of 2023 from a pool of 4,582 applicants.”
From my understanding, the increase in ED applications has nothing to do with the people who chose to take a gap year. The way the Dean worded it is a bit wonky though, he refers to the people who deferred enrollment to “students taking a gap year.” They already got in from the 2024 cycle year but they’re still considered freshman because they haven’t started classes yet; we aren’t competing with them but they do have to let less of us 25s in because the 24s have seats saved.
I think the extra people applying are simply the people who saw test optional as their ticket into a high-reach school, and it may be. Who knows?
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How many applications did Duke have last year? If they had 4582 in 2023 and 5000 for 2025 that means that their applications last year went down to almost 4200 for Class of 2024 in order for there to be a 20% increase to get to 5000 this year.
In any case, I wouldn’t fret about the increased applicants. More kids know their best shot this year is through ED for one, there are lesser quality applicants applying for ED than in a normal cycle, and with the no test as someone else said, kids are going to apply that may have good grades but may not have the rigor or something else missing. Who knows? Yes, some kids won’t get in that otherwise would have, and some will get in that might not have, but it shouldn’t be a huge number in any case.
All you can do is worry about yourself and how your application looks and if you were realistic in your chances.
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yeah, the increase in deferred students just correlates to the amount of spots available for HS class of 2021
i think around 4300 students applied ED last year. and you’re right, it’s gonna be really hard to know how test-optional candidates fared in comparison to people with test scores. i guess we’ll just have to see how everything turns out. i just have a lot of time to overthink right now lol so that’s what i’m doing
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did y’all submit test scores?
While we continue to stress over the final results, don’t forget to stay focus on keeping our grades up. Finals are just couple more weeks.
i did. got a 36 back in sophomore year so how could i not lol
Yeah, 4852 applicants in 2023 and 4300 applicants in 2024. I have no idea why there was such a huge dip but I bet Duke is happy they bounced back.
The difference is only about 80 students. Not a big impact but enough to drop a few percentage points.
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does anyone know what the biggest component that Duke considers in the applications this year now that test scores are optional? thanks
It depends on which school you’re applying to. Which one are you worried about?
well I’m not worried about anything. I applied to Trinity. I know that usually test scores are big, but this year they’re not.
For Trinity, they weigh every aspect of your application pretty much the same. For Pratt, they weigh test scores, grades, and course load more than anything else, so they’ll probably focus more on grades and curriculum more for Pratt applicants.
Here’s a link to how Duke rates applications:
I did not
thanks.
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my daughter submit her ACT score and it was within the 50% range.
Duke’s common data set lists the following as “Very Important”
- High school course rigor
- GPA
- Standardized test
- Essays
- Recommendations
- Ecs
- Talent
- Character
*Edit: class rank is omitted.
Yes, middle 50th