<p>Does Duke have a favorite between ACT and SAT Reasoning Test? What if a person submits ACT, SAT I(new) and SAT II, considering a 1800 on SAT Reasoning test and very high marks in the rest? Which scores will be accounted?</p>
<p>Depends on how good your ACT is (there's a conversion between act and SAT) but if your high school is an 1800/2400 I doubt youll have a chance. </p>
<p>If your ACT is better they'll look at that instead of SAT I.</p>
<p>Antoine is right in saying that some schools have the leisure of admitting whom they dang well please. Caltech, for example, has very, very few black students. In 1999, it had no black freshmen at all. Diversity only goes so far.</p>
<p>That's because California passed Prop 209 banning affirmative action. Also, you must realize that Caltech is a very small school (like 250ppl per class), and personally having visited it's not very appealing.</p>
<p>You're missing the point, lol. You never know what factors colleges are looking for.</p>
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Remember: "we" think of it as a lottery. We are looking at individual kids. From the school's point of view, it is not a lottery AT ALL - they are admitting a "class", not a bunch of individuals. They have this down to a science. The admissions officers take classes in yield management, statistical theory, etc., and combined have decades of experiences ensuring that what they are doing is not a lottery at all.</p>
<p>The admissions officers know they have to please certain GCs at their historical feeder schools. They know that they will not (cannot!) have more than 45% of the class receiving financial aid. They know that they have to fill a certain number of spots on the football team, or the alumni will be unhappy. (They know they need fencers and track stars and etc. as well.) They know they need an English horn player and two trombones. They better have some folks interested in Near Eastern archaeology, or the department will be p-i-s-s-e-d. They need to accept those developmental admits and the daughters of Connecticut state senators. I haven't even gotten to the legacies. Finally, it is important to have some darker faces on campuses.</p>
<p>There is nothing the least bit lotteryish about it. But they don't mind us thinking of it as a lottery, for if we do, they don't have to explain themselves.
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<p>ok i see your point...and maybe caltech is racist. but caltech is one of those obsessive dedicated research institutions.they don't have a football team (after all, that would be like 1/4 of the class), and you never hear about them winning anything. Caltech is probably the only school around that doesn't care about athletics and stuff.</p>
<p>is that point system accurate.... so recs and essays combined are more important than SAT scores , i dont believe it, the admit rate would have such lower SAT scorers if that was so</p>
<p>Yes, it is accurate.
Keep in mind that people with great recs and essays probably also have great SAT scores. Secondly, nobody can be auto-admitted without achieving the highest (5) score in standardized testing. That is, besides having excellent recs and essays, you must also have great testing.
Essays + recs are not "worth more"; if you get over the SAT hump, THEN they mean a lot.</p>
<p>okay, i have a question on my own scores. i only got a 660 on math, but i have a 760 on English and a 740 on writing, and I plan on majoring in creative writing or english. Will my poor math scores hurt me?</p>
<p>I actually asked my Duke Interviewer this eact question. His reponse was something along the iens of they matter, but not so much for the high ones. I mean Duke turns down alot of 1600s and he said they are not all that. He said the fact that Duke turns down alot of higher end scores should be encouraging. I'm not really sure I was, but I said, "Okey, that sounds swell." Seriosuly, am... I think they play a larger role in RD than ED, they know you will come along if you are ED. So, maybe you can get by with less?</p>