<p>I'm looking for data on the percentages of the regions represented in Duke's undergraduate class. Either by state, or by region. (southwest/northeast etc...) Can anyone point me in the right direction? Or is this information not available? Thanks.</p>
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<p>South 45%
Mid-Atlantic 21%
Midwest 11%
New England 7%
West 9%
Southwest 7%
International 13% </p>
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<p>Did you look at the Duke admissions website? It is there.</p>
<p>[Duke</a> University Admissions: Class of 2012 Profile](<a href=“http://admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2012profile.html]Duke”>http://admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2012profile.html)</p>
<p>thanks! must have missed the right link, sorry</p>
<p>I really wish they would break out the Pacific and West - that is just a huge landmass for 14%.</p>
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California’s population makes up close to 50% of the population in that huge landmass</p>
<p>Repeat after me, New Jersey, California, Random state from South, or North Carolina,</p>
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<p>The class of 2008 was the last time Duke released approximate state-by-state numbers on its admissions website. You can see it courtesy of the wayback machine here: [Duke</a> University : Admissions](<a href=“http://web.archive.org/web/20050204174557/www.duke.edu/web/ug-admissions/apply.htm]Duke”>Wayback Machine)</p>
<p>I’d imagine it hasn’t changed that much since then. I recall reading that CA has moved up in sheer numbers. I’d still say the most popular states are NC, FL, NY, CA, NJ, TX, VA.</p>
<p>100+ students
FL, NY, NC</p>
<p>50-99 students
CA, GA, IL, MD, NJ, PA, TX, VA</p>
<p>15-49 students
CT, MA, MI, MO, OH, SC, WA</p>
<p>Fewer than 15 students
AL, AR, AZ, CO, DC, DE, HI, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MN, MS, MT, NE, NH, NM, OK, OR, PR, RI, SD, TN, VT, WV, WI</p>
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There is the answer why they didn’t break up that 14% from the West.</p>
<p>If you are looking to apply, I would advise you to find out who your regional admissions director is, and get to know him or her. Whenever your application is for review, he or she will be your advocate and will be willing to go to bat for you. This could be the factor that separates you from 30 other qualified candidates for admissions…</p>
<p>^ Thanks for the tip… I’m guessing that’s not unique to Duke and I should start looking for the regional admissions directors for all of my reach schools right?</p>
<p>^Sometimes - some schools are a lot less friendly about that. Stanford, for instance, was not that welcoming to me. My Duke admissions officers went completely out of their way for me (maybe it’s the southern hospitality?).</p>
<p>I seem to remember getting in email saying California had the second most students admitted to (, or attending from ? ) the class of 2012.</p>
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<p>Yeah, according to this article, CA is now in the top 3…</p>
<p>[Duke</a> Magazine-Frosh Faces by Bridget Booher-September/October 2008](<a href=“Duke Mag”>Duke Mag)</p>
<p>The problem with getting to know your admissions counselor is that Duke does not allow admission interviews, and our state’s adcom does not visit any schools here. Even though we are very under-represented, Duke does one hotel reception, along with Stanford and Harvard. There were about 400 people in the room. Not exactly an easy way to get acquainted.</p>
<p>I don’t know how much it helped, but I can say that my regional adcom being able to put a face on the name probably helped with my application. </p>
<p>In my case, I was lucky that the adcom actually came to my school and talked to about 20 or so of us and I got to speak with her one on one afterwards. </p>
<p>But if you don’t have that chance, many adcoms are very receptive to communicating by email or phone and their contact info can be found on the Duke admissions site last I checked (could be gone now idk). Just introduce yourself and state why you want to talk to them (although I wouldn’t do that if you don’t have anything substantial to ask). I had to contact my regional adcom by email a month or two after the first meeting and she was very nice and went out of her way to get me an answer to my question.</p>
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What? Duke has interview for admissions.</p>
<p>Duke only does “alumni interviews”. Someone in your area who went to Duke interviews you- very random as to what kind of result you get, much different than a professional adcom interview.</p>
<p>I don’t think any top schools have professional adcom interview. When most people say “interview” for admissions, it is nearly always alumni interview. All it does is to see if you really have interest in that school and if you would fit in. Alumni in that part is a good decision because they would be the ones that would know if the student would fit in or not because they have experienced it and they can tell if the applicant is truly interested.</p>
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<p>I don’t know of a top school that has adcom interviews for applications. I know that Penn, MIT, Columbia, & Harvard, and the like, conduct alumni interviews.</p>
<p>The truth is, no top school does. There are too many applicants and the adcom won’t be able to do all of them not to mention a quarter of them.</p>