<p>Since about 15 percent of students are always from North and South Carolina, how much would being from one of these states help? I know the admissions rate is higher from stats my interviewer showed me, but by how much (I can't remember)?</p>
<p>Thanks guys!</p>
<p>Also, there are about 20 full ride scholarships available only for North and South Carolina students. But I do not know the admission rate.</p>
<p>When do you find out if you get one of those?</p>
<p>From the BN Duke scholarship (the merit scholarship for the carolinas) website:</p>
<p>"By late February finalists for the scholarship are invited to Duke’s campus for a weekend in early April."</p>
<p>So I'm guessing if you haven't heard anything by now you can be pretty certain you didn't make the cut.</p>
<p>Officially and in accordance with my experience, being in-state does not affect admissions at all. There is a slightly inflated number of in-state students, but I think this is simply because more in-state students apply, not that they’re trying to maintain some kind of quota.</p>
<p>You would think it does significantly. I mean, I don’t think there’s a huge dropoff in apps once you get to other border states like Virginia or Tennessee, and I don’t think there’s a huge increase in apps until you live around 20 miles of Duke. Schools like Stanford have half their population from California, which I think is ridiculous. I know this is kinda biased, but a lot of the people I have met from North Carolina seem to not be as academically strong as others.</p>
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<p>Since Duke is a private school with no quota, being IS or OOS has no affect on admissions. Also, I am from NC and am very academically strong, as are a ton of kids from my NC school and several other NC schools. You should not make a generalization about NC students.</p>
<p>Sorry if you were offended by that last comment; I should not have made it.</p>
<p>About the subject at hand, private schools generally have more freedom than public schools when it comes to who they admit, and of course all private schools state they don’t use quotas. In reality, common sense tells you they are. The most obvious example is race: why is the UC system more than half Asian? Because California through their legal system agreed to ban race based affirmation action, which sent the Asian population skyrocketing. Of course most schools like Duke and most of the other Ivy Leagues have allowed Asian populations to around 1/4 of the whole student body, but the gap remains.</p>
<p>If you look at the class of 2012 profile: <a href=“https://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2012profile.html[/url]”>Apply - Duke Undergraduate Admissions, there are more students from NC alone than they are from the entire West and Pacific, which includes the states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Wyoming, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Alaska, and Hawaii. Given that more people apply from NC, I still don’t think the number of applicants will be in the 15:14 ratio that exists in the student population from their respective category. And, even if they round numbers off, the percentages of 10%, 14%/15%, and 20% seem like very “nice” numbers.</p>