How hard is it to get into Duke? What is the general student or sterotypically general student? Their admission rate is 23%, which is relatively high.
<p>yeah duke is a safety for many, its not to hard to get into</p>
<p>really, I thought it was competitive</p>
<p>o yea.. its a breeze. its my safety school and my sat scores only a 1300. you ll definitely get in</p>
<p>Duke is a top ten easy school.</p>
<p>dudes ... i know a few really qualified people (one with a 1490) from the Los Angeles area that got defered and rejected ED.</p>
<p>If this isn't meant as sarcasm, then what are you guys smoking? Instead of a "top 10 school," try "top 5."</p>
<p>Oh, and for the first kid who commented- if you plan on criticizing the school, at least try and use correct spelling.</p>
<p>Greg Paulus is going to Duke next year for basketball. This kid is the next Larry Bird. (or next J.J. Reddick at least.)</p>
<p>admission rate is high for 23%? hmmmm.</p>
<p>someone missed teh sarcasm</p>
<p>yeah, i think i did. must be the bad mood.</p>
<p>sorry, guys.</p>
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<p>Hard, but easier than the Ivies.</p>
<p>USNews ranking at 5 0r 6 makes it seem harder than it is. But it is an Ivy alternative, if not quite a safety.</p>
<p>I was deferred ED (1500 SAT I, only decent ECs)...I applied to Pratt (the engineering school), although both schools are about the same difficulty to get into (depending on your strengths...)
I would agree that it's not quite in the tier of the Ivies, but definetly not "easy."</p>
<p>hows their fin aid for intels?</p>
<p>An Ivy safety? mwahahaha.</p>
<p>sorry.</p>
<p>USNews ranked Duke 8th in terms of selectivity, above Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Brown. Seems to me that it's right in the mix of the Ivies...sometimes I think that students who go to Ivy League schools just refuse to admit when a great non-Ivy school is on par with their beloved university.</p>
<p>I agree Duke is just as good as a bunch of the Ivy's, but acceptance rate isn't everything. Cornell is the largest Ivy school and is bound to accept more students.</p>
<p>"...sometimes I think that students who go to Ivy League schools just refuse to admit when a great non-Ivy school is on par with their beloved university."</p>
<p>Stanford, MIT, and Caltech are non-ivies that are considered to be better than/equal to the ivies so that argument doesn't really work.</p>
<p>i got into penn and i say that duke stanford mit etc. are ivy calibre</p>
<p>I got into Cornell. I'd say that Stanford, MIT, and Caltech are a little better, with Duke being about the same, along with a few other schools.</p>