Is anyone who get admitted not going to attend?

[bluedog]

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So, honestly, is there an appeal process for getting into Duke (or any of the bigger betters)? I remember readin an ariticle about some kid that didn;t let up until they let her in. Anybody know?

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<p>No, you can’t appeal to get into Duke. Here’s an EXTREME example of a guy who get deferred from ED from Duke and then rejected.</p>

<p>[A</a> dream deferred | The Chronicle](<a href=“http://dukechronicle.com/article/dream-deferred]A”>A dream deferred - The Chronicle)</p>

<p>After getting rejected, he called admissions. When that wasn’t enough, he moved down to Durham just off Duke’s campus for 10 weeks, visited the admissions office daily, bringing them cookies and writing to the admissions director what he learned from Duke every week.</p>

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So, come April and some inspiration courtesy of the movie Rudy, Rosenberg packed-up his belongings and moved down south to take classes and show the Duke admissions directors “what I was made of,” he says. “Everyone in my high school said I should give up.”</p>

<p>Rosenberg quit the tennis team and left high school for the next 10 weeks, relocating to The Belmont Apartments.

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Once settled in Durham, Rosenberg wasted no time in visiting the admissions office. Dressed in a suit and tie, and with 500 Mrs. Field’s cookies for the office on his first visit-and doughnuts for the entire staff every week after that-Rosenberg took two more classes at Duke, helped produce video clips for the Duke basketball teams and e-mailed the admissions director each week about all the things he was learning at school.

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<p>After 9 weeks, he was FINALLY able to secure a meeting with Guttentag, but was still rejected. Having no choice, he enrolled as a freshman at Emory, did well, and then realized his dream by transferring to Duke as a sophomore!</p>

[sandra_ny2011]

<p>wow! ^for all of that he was STILL rejected?! sheesh! at least he was determined in the end :)</p>

[Anonymous93]

<p>I think he should have been accepted.</p>

<p>(I’m ready to defend my statement since I know people will think differently!)</p>

[ava1992]

<p>Me too, although maybe Duke admissions didn’t want to give the impression that if you give them cookies you will be accepted.</p>

[Senescence]

<p>Oh man. I want to find this guy in September and give him a big ass high five. Cookies…that’s just CLASSY.</p>

[DREWALL]

<p>that’s an awesome story! i could never do that!!</p>