<p>Duke’s yield is comparatively low because a lot of the students qualified enough to get into Duke also get into top Ivy’s. The acceptance rate is still really low…many people apply, they accept those qualified, and 60% of the qualified also happens to be qualified enough to get into Harvard, Yale, etc.</p>
<p>interestinguy, why do you go from thread to thread making nasty comments?</p>
<p>please ignore the poor fool.</p>
<p>hoping4duke- it’s a trick, he actually works for Duke. By acting like the poster boy Ivy League ****** bag who thinks he’s better than everyone else, he actually encourages more people to choose Duke over Ivies. Notice how he never says what school he goes to, just that it’s the zenith of brilliance? That leaves it up to other CC posters to assume the more “prestigious” college he attends, and helps decrease the number of cross-admits who chose HYPSM etc over Duke. It’s actually quite brilliant. The old false ****** bag ruse.</p>
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<p>Actually, there may be a Duke insider lurking in these forums. A “prospective student” who applies ED with a 600M SAT seems to be an obvious ploy to drive up applications.</p>
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<p>please do not ignore the poor (ma)fool. father (or mother) knows best.</p>
<p>My dear friend’s daughter is bipolar. At times, she can be a delightful young woman. But she also has a very mean, anti-social side to her, as well. Lately, she’s been venting her abusive cruelty and nastiness on celebrity discussion forums and youtube. </p>
<p>Her mother, my friend, feels badly but doesn’t interfere because the daughter is easier to be around after she lets off some steam. The daughter isn’t always diligent about taking her medications, either. It’s such a sad situation.</p>
<p>FWIW</p>
<p>My dear actor friend’s mother is a typical “stage mom” suffering from an acute case of status anxiety. At times, she can be a delightful elderly woman. But she also has a very mean, anti-social side to her, as well. Lately, (being unemployed) she’s been venting her abusive cruelty and nastiness on celebrity discussion forums and youtube because my B-list friend has been repeatedly rejected for major roles which go to the A-list celebrities. </p>
<p>Her daughter, my friend, feels badly but doesn’t interfere because the mother is easier to be around after she lets off some steam. The mother isn’t always diligent about taking her (anti-psychotic) medications, either. It’s such a sad situation.</p>
<p>FWIW</p>
<p>interestingguy- did you really take the time to look up my SAT scores? Hahaha wow.</p>
<p>Ahem . . . back to the topic at hand.</p>
<p>Yes, Duke’s yield is around 40%, which is rather high considering the fast company they keep. So what happens if a school’s yield suddenly comes in higher?</p>
<p>I work at a university that went through a dramatic 10-year change in mission, student body, and recruiting. Over that time, SATs rose 250 points on the 1600 scale, the frosh-soph retention went from mid-50% to high-80s, and the demographics of the student body shifted significantly.</p>
<p>A typical yield rate for a school like ours would be around a third, but suddenly we’d gone from a backup school to many applicants’ first choice, and the yield rate became impossible to accurately predict. Over the last couple years it seems to have settled in at around 59%.</p>
<p>When too many of your invitees accept the invitation to the party, you scramble for residence hall space and seats in freshman math and English. It’s a good problem to have, but if you don’t anticipate changes such as these you could easily produce negative experiences for the students who’ve decided that you’re their top destination, and lose that momentum. But schools like Duke and the Ivies have been what they are for so long, they can predict very accurately how many to invite to get the class size they want.</p>
<p>do ed results come out the 15th or the 10th?</p>
<p>im praying that im not in the bottom 30% that gets auto-denied.
but im sure im not the top 5% that gets auto-admitted… lol</p>
<p>6 P.M. on 10th.
i checked on the website.
you get an ID and Pin on the 7th.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I checked out your “scores.” ;)</p>
<p>Well played, Dukie double-agent! </p>
<p>The math-phobic student population is definitely an untapped applicant resource.</p>
<p>Congratulations interestingguy, you are clearly the smartest, most fun, most confident, and most likable person to ever be accepted into any college. You are clearly better than me. Now please go take advantage of all of your blessings and your prestigious education from the world’s greatest college, and get off the computer and go do something with your life. You’re wasting your obvious talents here.</p>
<p>Wow, what an insightful article! In fact, it’s almost TREATFUL!!!</p>
<p>ie</p>
<p>You will get two emails on Dec 7. One with a username and one with a password. Hope it doesn’t go to junk mail. You will be instructed to log on to some Duke site on Dec 10 at 6 pm Eastern time with your personal log on info. There it will be… the decision.</p>
<p>interestingguy, are you applying to Duke?</p>
<p>^ No. I did, but I turned down Duke. I am a college student.</p>
<p>Why did you even apply if you hate Duke so much?</p>