Duke ED Class of 2023 Discussion Thread

I called the alumni office and they told me I have been matched with an interviewer but he just hasn’t contacted me yet. I would recommend calling cause they will give you whatever info they can find.

my interview was yesterday and no exaggeration lasted 2 hours. fingers crossed goodluck guys

my interviewer contacted me yesterday! interview is in a week. so scared

I am applying to Duke ED but I am in an impacted area for the recent hurricanes and the school gave an extension for ED applicants to November 12th, which I got an email for along with seeing this extension on their website and social media. I’m trying to submit my application now but my Common App isn’t letting me submit anything because it’s past the deadline - is anyone else applying late ED having this issue? I tried contacting Duke and the Common App but since it’s Sunday and a holiday I don’t think I’ll get a response anytime soon.

@everyone on this thread do u guys think there are a lot more applicants applying ED or about the same? ik penn has a HUGE amount of ED applicants this year but what about for duke? praying there aren’t too many

how do you know penn had a huge number of applicants this year?

I don’t know the credibility behind it, but somebody else was saying a few weeks ago that Duke recieved more applications than last year even before the deadline. There’s no definite proof of that, though. How did you hear about Penn? Is that a guess or are there just a lot of applications from your school applying to Penn?

Should I be concerned if my counselor just submitted first quarter report today?

@yaycollege1717 @mwolpert27 the A.O. for my region came to my school like a week ago and talked about applying to penn normal and said a huge amount of apps were received, esp for my region. I mean it may have just been the cliche “we get so many applications ed” but I have noticed an incredibly large amount of people applying to penn ed. just from my grade of 250 students around 35 qualified applicants are ed to penn. also, the penn 2023 thread on here is crazy. the thread is blowing up sm.

I do not think so. QQQBoutique

Did you guys hear about the duke sponsored gap year? This is so exciting (if I get in)

Last year on Reddit, someone copied and pasted an internal email from Duke’s head of admissions which stated how many had applied ED to Duke. The leak came in early Nov '17, while Duke officially releases that info in mid-Dec, when they announce the number of ED offers/acceptances. Duke may be more careful this year. I would check other schools to see if there is a big rise in ED apps (e.g. Vandy, UPenn, Dartmouth, etc.) as that might indicate if there is a trend for increases in ED. Also, Duke offered a later ED date (Nov 12th) for Carolinas (maybe Fla too). So, they may just now be getting an idea of how many have applied ED.

At my HS (public but super competitive), I’ve been told by counselors that not that many go ED. A lot of the top students just want to see if they can get in these schools – then maybe see how the offer compares to a big, but solid state university (e.g. UNC-Chapel Hill, UVA, U of Texas, Michigan, etc.) in their home state.

@QQQBoutique November 12 or as soon as grades are ready. Look on Duke portal and see if box is checked.

I’ve heard that roughly 20% of the applicants for these highly competitive schools are not really remotely qualified, but I wonder what that percentage is for ED applicants. Has anyone ever heard? Most of the kids I know with SATs of 1500+ and ACTs of 33+ are planning on applying to lots of selective schools to see where they get the best deal. They aren’t going ED anywhere. So, that’s why I wonder how competitive it is at ED for schools like Duke, UPenn, Vanderbilt, etc.

i always wonder the same thing, like my valedictorian who has a 4.0 and 1560 isnt EDing anywhere bc they need to see how much money they will get from the schools he applies to. again i go to a bad public school where 2/3 of students are on free and reduced lunch so him and i are the only ones with 1500s or 34+ from my graduating class…but i wonder how many people with these scores truly ED somewhere or prefer the freedom of getting chosen. like last year duke may have had 5000 ED applicants but of that how many were truly qualified to get in even RD

It seems like Duke, Vanderbilt, WUSTL, Cornell, UPenn and a few others fill up half their classes with the best 15%-25% of the ED apps they can get after letting in the kids of major donors & athletes – some of whom will have much lower test scores. Then they greatly cherry pick the 2nd half by only picking 5%-8% of the 30,000 apps that come in RD. The 1st crowd (after deducting for athletes who won’t be paying) gives them a reliable group that will commit to the school & probably pay near full price. That 2nd crowd then brings up the SAT/ACT scores even more. The schools know from history what their yield will be – more or less – on this 2nd group.

I’ve read articles – usually written by lower income students – who think these schools should do away w/ED altogether. What they don’t realize is that ED enables Duke, Rice, Vandy to fill their athletic quotas and get full or near full paying students to commit. Only having half the class left to fill for RD means the school can basically go super selective (e.g. students w/36 ACTs and 1590+ SATs). The super elite (Princeton & Harvard) did away w/ED a few years ago but then found that they didn’t end up w/as good a pool as they wanted. So, they went to SCEA.

Duke released this class of 2021 profile and it shows the breakdown of applicants from both ED and RD. I found it to be very helpful.

https://admissions.duke.edu/images/uploads/process/DukeClass2021Profile.pdf

I also heard that last year’s class acceptance rate for ED decreased to 21%…I hope it doesn’t go down even more this year.

They released a new version:

https://admissions.duke.edu/images/uploads/process/Classof2022profileWEB.pdf

For Class of 2021, they noted the difference in middle 50% SAT/ACT scores b/w Trinity & Pratt but not for Class of 2022. Was there a difference this past year in those two middle 50 percentiles?

Hey guys, as a current 2022 freshman who was ED I’d like to offer you a bit of reassurance! I remember looking at this thread for my year and being miserable because I didn’t have a crazy amount of APs or a 4.0, and I know people have said it but its really not about that at all. Most people I’ve met at Duke aren’t that person with a perfect score and perfect grades by any stretch of the imagination. The admissions office is trying to build a community. They’re looking for people who are passionate about something, who are interested in learning, and who will add to the community. People I know with perfect scores and perfect grades didn’t get in, because they didn’t distinguish themselves from everyone else with those things. If Duke wanted a class with nothing but 36’s and 4.0s, they could make one. But they don’t. They want interesting people with personalities first and foremost, so the best thing you can do is be honest and hope your personality came through on your application. Good luck to everyone and I hope to see you on campus next year!