<p>yeaa, you and I have similar stats. I was waitlisted too ><</p>
<p>idk, Duke is pretty up on affirmative action, which means azns are kind of screwed…</p>
<p>ok people, don’t kill me for saying that. It’s just a one person opinion</p>
<p>Reality check - According to the letter my d. got, Duke had 20300 applicants for 1650 spots. In other words, they have room for about 8% of the applicants. </p>
<p>So sadly, lots of great folks are not going to get in. </p>
<p>It hurts. In a weird way, it’s not fair that the numbers applying to the higher tier schools is making this crazy for everyone.</p>
<p>Try not to take it personally - there are lots of good people who won’t be getting into Duke, and maybe there was nothing you could have done differently.</p>
<p>That doesn’t mean an 8% acceptance rate, though. I’m expecting around 4,000 got in, but only 1,650 will commit (including the 472 ED already committed).</p>
<p>This is assuming that the 20,300 applicants includes the pool of over 1,200 ED applicants.</p>
<p>You’re overqualified. Duke’s probably trying to protect their yield</p>
<p>I’d agree with everyone else on the EC’s..</p>
<p>kowloon, thats just not correct…one of the reasons why Duke’s yield is very low compared to many of its peers is because students are never rejected based on being too qualified. Duke admits qualified students, however, if the student didn’t write a very compelling essay or convey the sense that they really wanted to attend then that would certainly raise a red flag with the admissions committee. you don’t appear to have a whole lot of leadership, which is something that Duke emphasizes. Maybe you failed to emphasize your service to your community in your application? Academically you couldn’t have done anything better, but college admissions isn’t just about performing well on tests and in school anymore :-/</p>
<p>Youll be fine with some other schools who don’t emphasize ECs so much. Your statistics are impressive, this whole thing is somewhat random for students who are as qualified as you are, and you will obviously succeed academically wherever you go.</p>
<p>Well, I did leave some things off my little summary. I was the disscussion head at our Philosophy club, and I went to HOBY and WLC, and nominated for Boy’s State (so it sounds like someone is nominating me because they think I have leadership).
I just wrote in my short essay that elaborated on an activity about my service project. And I mean, they didn’t exactly give you much room to write about it, but I think I summarized pretty well…
But I’m guessing that Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and UPenn emphasize Ec’s? Ugh, there goes my hope… At least I won’t get crushed.</p>
<p>I’m seriously getting sick of all this “overqualified” business. Adcoms are just…unpredictable.</p>
<p>Even if yield management does take place to some extent, CC is blowing it way out of proportion.</p>
<p>As for admit rate, Madboy121’s estimate (~4,000) is a good estimate. </p>
<p>More precisely, Duke had 20,300 applicants this year including both ED and RD. There were 1,247 ED applicants, and 472 were admitted, 419 were deferred, and 280 were denied. Therefore, ED admit rate is 37.85% (472/1247). </p>
<p>In the RD round there were 19,548 applicants (20,300 Total - 472 ED Admitted - 280 ED Denied). Assuming the same yield as last year (41% total yield, 35.7% RD yield), in order to enroll 1,178 students from RD round (1,650 total class size - 472 ED admits), they should admit ~3,300 applicants in RD to generate 35.7% RD yield. This makes the RD admit rate 16.88% (3,300/19,548). </p>
<p>They might anticipate a little lower yield this year due to the increase in total number of applications, but this doesn’t necessary mean they offered more admissions since they certainly want to play it safe and don’t want to over-admit. For this reason, I guess that they admitted ~3,300 applicants from the RD pool this year based on last year’s yield, and I think that they will rely more heavily on the waitlist this year. Therefore, I anticipate more students coming off of the waitlist this year than last year. A little bit of a good news for waitlisted applicants.</p>
<p>Okay, it’s long been established that college admissions contains a certain random factor. For example, I was accepted at Rice and waitlisted at Duke, one of my friends was accepted at Duke but waitlisted at Chicago, and another one of my friends was accepted at Chicago but waitlisted at Rice. It’s unpredictable. Perhaps Duke reached a limit to the amount of applications they wanted to accept and had to waitlist the others, I don’t know what the reason was, but don’t let it get you down. I didn’t take Duke’s waitlist well either, seeing as I had underestimated the competition, but sometimes it’s just better to acknowledge that there’s nothing you can do about it, and that unexpected obstacles will come up now and then. </p>
<p>Anyway, I believe you’re Asian right? (at least from what I recall in the Official Duke RD thread). Asians, myself included, have an even more difficult time with admissions, so just keep that in mind when comparing yourself to others. Best of luck with your other college apps!</p>
<p>hey. I got outright rejected with a 35. So count yourself lucky!</p>
<p>I put on my app that I visited and that duke was my top choice school but I’m too nervous to check my decision. Do you think duke keeps track of who has visited? I think they might because I remember filling something out and I received an email after my visit thanking me for my interest in duke</p>