<p>Does anyone think that Duke's yield percentage will increase dramatically because they won the National Championship? Just wondering what people think.</p>
<p>My guess: Not dramatically, but it definitely makes Duke more appealing. Imagine the opposite: Duke losing to Butler. Still, Duke has always been known for having a great basketball program and amazing school spirit. Their recent win might just put them more into the spotlight.</p>
<p>[Study:</a> March Madness Does Boost College Applications - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News - FOXNews.com](<a href=“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,341370,00.html]Study:”>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,341370,00.html)</p>
<p>Expect a boost to yield, application -> drop in acceptance %.</p>
<p>^Wow! Seven to eight percent! As if Duke wasn’t amazing enough haha. Now I really hope I don’t get off my waitlists… I’d be torn</p>
<p>the Duke Class of 2014 on Facebook already has almost 1,300 members, and if I remember correctly Duke is accepting around 1,500 to 1,600 students this year?</p>
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<p>They’re targeting 1705.</p>
<p>[Duke</a> invites 3,372 to join Class of 2014 | The Chronicle](<a href=“http://dukechronicle.com/article/duke-invites-3372-join-class-2014]Duke”>Duke invites 3,372 to join Class of 2014 - The Chronicle)</p>
<p>a lot of people join the facebook group simply because they were accepted, not necessarily enrolling. it’s not an accurate metric.</p>
<p>hey look, an article from the new york times featuring Duke! about waiting lists…interesting read.</p>
<p>[Top</a> Colleges Have Bigger Waiting Lists - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/education/14waitlist.html?th&emc=th]Top”>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/education/14waitlist.html?th&emc=th)</p>
<p>I was there :)</p>
<p>And french horns are cool.</p>
<p>i know, right? haha</p>
<p>lawl… my friend was mentioned in that ny times article b/c he was WL’d at so many schools. i feel kinda bad cause he tries really hard and deserves better, but he’s happy with where he’s going…</p>
<p>I dont think Duke yield rate will increase. The reason is that Duke began accepting students off their waitlist in late April. Due to the fact that they went to their waitlist so fast, I dont believe that their yield was very good. Just a thought.</p>
<p>I think they only began accepting students off their waitlist for Pratt in April. I have a feeling Trinity filled up much faster. So maybe the yield for Trinity is much higher than the yield for Pratt? Not sure how it affects the yield overall though.</p>
<p>It might be that Trinity filled up faster than Pratt or it might be that they didn’t accept enough people for Pratt. I would expect, with Duke’s excellent engineering programs, that in the years past Pratt’s yield might be higher than Trinity’s. In that case, it could be that the adcoms overestimated the yield this year and had to turn to the waitlist sooner.</p>
<p>I don’t understand how that many people turned down Duke because with 602 ED kids, they technically needed only 1100 more kids from RD. However, with 3392 kids accepted RD plus the kids that got off the WL, that puts Duke’s yield at less than 30%? Crazy stuff</p>
<p>Ahhhh, I want to hug everyone who chose not to go to Duke!!! YAY FOR DUKE PULLING ME OFF THE WAITLIST!!!</p>
<p>@BallerDuke14 “Crazy stuff” … ?</p>
<p>I think it makes perfect sense. Duke has very little in the way of merit aid, and they accept the BEST students without considering FA status. So when the time comes to decide, VERY few of these accepted students will select Duke when they probably have significant merit aid on the table (probably from a state school) OR they are admitted at a school (ie. HYP) that has REALLY good FA. Duke’s a great school, but middle class families just can’t afford it. If Duke were ever to implement a Harvard style FA system (even Harvard lite would be a big improvement) then this could change overnight. Duke would no longer be a school for “rich kids” …</p>
<p>Oh, you’re welcome Anonymous93 …</p>
<p>Wait, I thought Duke had rather good financial aid? I mean, nothing like Harvard’s financial aid, but it still met 100% of need? It doesn’t apply to me, but I didn’t expect cost to be a reason why people aren’t going.</p>
<p>YAYYYYYYY. THANK YOU FOR NOT GOING!!!</p>
<p>^ Duke has ok FA compared to other “rich kid” private schools. (Vandy, WashU, etc.) As for “nothing like Harvard”, not true … Y,P more recently Columbia and others have joined in. They are all beginning to understand the TRUE meaning of “diversity”. What Harvard did was redefine the meaning of “need”. The FAFSA, CSS, etc. are A JOKE. The formula used specifically excludes families with incomes between 80 and 140K of having any real chance of paying for Duke. It’s a huge “donut hole” to borrow a term from Medicare part D. </p>
<p>So have fun with your homogeneous student body. As for me, I’m off to get an education in the REAL world …</p>
<p>[Duke</a> draws ?rich kids of all colors? | The Chronicle](<a href=“http://dukechronicle.com/article/duke-draws-rich-kids-all-colors]Duke”>Duke draws ‘rich kids of all colors’ - The Chronicle)</p>
<p>I loved Duke (and it was my top choice after I got in) and all, but I agree with plumazul. Their financial aid is awful compared to most other of its peer schools, and their merit scholarships are extremely selective. I would have had to pay full fare ($50k/year) at Duke, whereas Rice is only charging my family a reasonable $23k/year with the merit scholarships they gave me. On top of that, Rice is already $5k/year cheaper in full sticker price. On top of that, Rice is committed to the middle class since merit scholarships are offered to 30% of the incoming class, which is the greatest percentage of all the top 20 universities. My parents were willing to pay for Duke, but I felt it wasn’t worth it when an almost equally good school was half the price. It’s no surprise that we are always ranked in the top 10 for “Best Value” and that there are fewer rich kids at Rice in comparison to Duke, Vandy, Emory, WashU, most Ivies… we have decent need-based and merit aid even though we are half the size of all these schools and have a smaller endowment.</p>