Hi, so I’m really interested in going to Duke and am planning to apply for the early decision. Just wondering what type of students Duke is looking for and what my grades should be to have a good chance of going there
We always receive flyers about Duke. Their average weighted GPA is a 4.5. So that would mean A’s in honors and AP classes.
Btw, I live in North Carolina.
There is actually a whole fourm devoted to topics relating to Duke if you go to Colleges and Universities --> Top Universities —> Duke University. You may get more responses and find other threads relating to these types of things.
To even get looked at, you need stellar grades in the hardest classes like @IrrationalPepsi said. I beleive I read like > 90% of thier incoming freshman class was in the top 10% of their class and quite a bit were vals and sals, but I can’t quite pull that statistic off the top of my head. Duke’s an awesome school and I hope you get in!
Duke is a great school, you’ll definitely need an impressive application. Check out the Duke thread.
It’s good that you’re planning to go ED since they certainly look favorably upon that. Certainly would want to be an A student for the most part, taking the most challenging classes but a B here an there would be fine.
Look at their middle 50% and aim for scores in that ballpark. What grade are you in?
Sophmore
I’m a sophmore