<p>Includes a 4.6 % increase for Trinity and 13.8% increase for Pratt. Regular Decision acceptance rate expected to be around 11%.</p>
<p>Duke</a> sees 6 percent spike in applications | The Chronicle</p>
<p>Breaking 30,000 total is a significant benchmark.</p>
<p>Just wondering, are these increases in applications due to a baby boom (increase in simple numbers) or because applicants are applying to more schools? Is this because they are shopping for the best FA/merit dollars?</p>
<p>I’m guessing its because more people are applying. What do you think is the predicted acceptance rate for this year? I’m guessing around 11.7 percent, depending on if Duke’s yield getting better year by year also.</p>
<p>The article cited in the first post said they expect RD acceptances to be around 11%, about 1% lower then last year. It did not mention overall though what the rate is expected to be.</p>
<p>Early Decision had 2641 applicants, and 648 accepted, for an acceptance rate of 38%.
[Duke</a> Accepts 648 Early Decision Applicants | Duke Today](<a href=“http://today.duke.edu/2011/12/earlydecision]Duke”>Duke Accepts 648 Early Decision Applicants | Duke Today)</p>
<p>If Duke accepts 11% of the 28,909 RD applicants, that will be approx 3180 accepted during RD.</p>
<p>So, 648 + 3180 = 3828 accepted combined (ED+RD). </p>
<p>3828/31,565 = 12.1% overall acceptance rate</p>
<p>With 1705 spots in the class, Duke’s yield should be approx 1705/3828 = 44.5%</p>
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<p>I think you meant 25%. The rest of your numbers sound accurate to me, though.</p>
<p>Incidentally, looks like Pratt’s acceptance rate will take the bigger dive with an increase of 14% vs. Trinity’s 4.6% increase.</p>
<p><a href=“http://today.duke.edu/2012/01/regulardecision[/url]”>http://today.duke.edu/2012/01/regulardecision</a></p>
<p>Didn’t Duke accept 10.8 percent of their RDs last year? So why do they say that there will be a one percent decrease in RD to 11 percent?</p>
<p>^I believe the initial number was 10.8% but after taking people off the waitlist and summer melt, the final figure was 12.0% (3311 acceptances/27497 applications). So, the initial reported RD acceptance rate figure this year will likely be below 11%.</p>
<p>[Duke</a> University Admissions: Class of 2015 Profile](<a href=“http://admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2015profile.html]Duke”>http://admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2015profile.html)</p>
<p>^^bluedog, yes, good catch on my calculations. The 38% number I cited was the percent of Duke’s class of 2016 that would be filled with ED applicants. The ED acceptance rate was 24.5%.</p>
<p>About a 45% yield? Why in the world is it so low? Harvard’s is upper 70s! Brown and Princeton mid to upper 50s.</p>
<p>I don’t know, but with a yield in the mid 40s, it looks like the school (any school with a yield in the low-mid 40s) is having trouble getting people to actually attend the school!?</p>
<p>What is up with that? I don’t get it.</p>
<p>the ks.</p>
<p>I think the yield has a lot to do with Duke’s southern vibes. Southern schools tend to be associated with backwardness and lack of diversity. At least at the school I go to, not a lot of people would pick a southern school over a northeastern one or one in the west. </p>
<p>I know this isn’t true. Duke, is as diverse as any northern/western school I’ve looked into. Arguably more so. The vibe at Duke is awesome. However, plenty of other people still have this misconception.</p>
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<p>Duke accepts comparatively less of its class ED than schools like Penn which inflates their yield rate. Also UNC-CH is one of the finest public schools in the country and instate students can attend at a fraction of the cost of a Duke education. No other elite private school has to compete with a state school of the caliber of UNC-CH for instate students, with the exception of Stanford which is admittedly a notch more desirable than Duke. Therefore, Duke chooses to forgo higher yield rates in order to increase admissions flexibility and mold the class according to the adcom’s specifications.</p>
<p>“Southern schools tend to be associated with backwardness and lack of diversity.”</p>
<p>Come on, Duke is Duke, it’s not backward. It’s a top-notch research institution, not some back of the woods stereotype. I think happyman2 is much more accurate than that regarding yield. I do agree that many students would pick Northeast schools over Duke if they had to choose, although I think it might have much more to do with the HYPMS and Ivy-League hype.</p>
<p>I acknowledged that Duke is Duke and not backwards at all (I mean, I applied ED and am part of the class of 2016, so I obviously have nothing but good things to say about the school). But, the misconception about southern schools still exists, at least at my school.</p>
<p>And I agree with happyman2 also. There is no single reason for Duke’s low yield.</p>
<p>Duke’s yield is higher than that of UChicago, Northwestern, Cal Tech, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, and Wash U among others. Yield is an easily manipulated statistic and 45% is not surprisingly low. Duke does not keep track of or consider demonstrated interest in its admissions decisions like some schools do (number of visits, phone calls, etc.). Doing so would undoubtedly increase the yield, but perhaps yield a slightly less accomplished student body. Duke also doesn’t fill more than 45% of its class with ED applicants like UPenn and Columbia do.</p>
<p>“Duke’s yield is higher than that of UChicago, Northwestern, Cal Tech, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, and Wash U among others. Yield is an easily manipulated statistic and 45% is not surprisingly low.”</p>
<p>Northwestern, JHU, Vanderbilt, Wash U, yes. But these are schools that Duke should be beating by a large margin anyway. Caltech and Chicago are on EA, and if they moved to ED, they would almost certainly have a higher yield than Duke.</p>
<p>Regardless, Duke’s yield isn’t terribly low and is consistent with its level of prestige. Its yield is slightly lower than Dartmouth’s, a school on the same level of prestige.</p>