"Despite COVID-19 leaving them unable to finish out the school year, thousands of high school seniors received the news this March that they were accepted into Duke’s Class of 2024.
The Chronicle has compiled a comparison of Duke’s Regular Decision and overall acceptance statistics for the Class of 2024 with some peer universities in the Ivy League.
Duke welcomed 6% of Regular Decision applicants to the Class of 2024, offering admission to 2,170 out of 36,252 applicants. Of the applications considered, 35,483 were Regular Decision, while the remaining 769 were students who had been deferred from the Early Decision pool.
This 6% acceptance rate marks an increase of 0.3% from last year. Duke accepted just 5.7% of Regular Decision applicants for the Class of 2023, a record low for the University.
There were 39,783 total applications from both Regular and Early Decision, a decrease from last year’s 41,651 applications for the Class of 2023. With a 21% acceptance rate in the Early Decision program, Duke’s overall acceptance rate for the Class of 2024 was 7.7%, nearly identical to last year’s 7.8% acceptance rate.
Like Duke, other universities saw application numbers drop and acceptance rates rise compared to previous years." …