<p>Undergraduate: Out of 100 applicants, 15-20 end up getting in. What's up with those applicants who get accepted into Duke?</p>
<p>What do you mean “What’s up with those applicants who get accepted into Duke?”?</p>
<p>And 15-20/100? That seems really high…It’s about the same as the normal freshman acceptance rate. Are you sure it’s correct?</p>
<p>That is like 10% or lower. Admission is definately hyperly competitive. The bar is raised.
Because from what I heard, it seems transferring into other schools like Notre Dame Tufts and Northwestern were possible, unlike Duke. So I was wondering how the heck were those applicants able to transfer in.</p>
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Way to go to make up numbers.</p>
<p>Last year Duke admitted 25 transfer applicants out of 479.</p>
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Undergraduate: Out of 100 applicants, 15-20 end up getting in. What’s up with those applicants who get accepted into Duke? </p>
<p>Way to go to make up numbers.</p>
<p>“Last year Duke admitted 25 transfer applicants out of 479.”</p>
<p>That still doesn’t seem alot to me. It’s about 15-20%.</p>
<p>Duke has a very high graduation and retention rate as do most schools that are Duke’s peers, large and small alike. Students admitted to Duke stay and do well, and probably many people on the waitlist would have done just as well if admitted. Thus transfer spots are few and idiosyncratic when offered.</p>
<p>See, that’s where the eccentricity comes from. If you do not get into Duke as a freshmen, the chances of transferring is very low. But I am still wondering how were those people who got in as a transfer ABLE to do it?</p>
<p>Those 25 students that transfer to Duke yearly are from top-notch undergraduate institutions like Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Dartmouth, etc. and have top grades as well as good reasons why they want to transfer to Duke. I would advise you to cast your net widely if you are a prospective transfer regarding what schools you apply to.</p>
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<p>I feel like that’s kind of an uninformed and illogical thing to say. If you were at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, or Stanford, why would you want to transfer to Duke? Academic quality? No. Size of school? No. Opportunities (connections, study abroad, programs)? No. Majors? Maybe, but all of those schools are rather expansive in their program offerings. The type of community, maybe. But I highly doubt that all 25 came from top 10 schools. Maybe a few of them, not ALL of them.</p>
<p>Oh, and it’s 25/479, which is like … 5% admission as a transfer. It’s a longshot for anyone, to be sure. But that shouldn’t stop you from trying.</p>
<p>^ I would highly advise every student at every other top 10 university (with the possible exception of Dartmouth…maaayyybe Penn, but that’s pushing it) to transfer to Duke if they like having a social life. Period.</p>
<p>Duke is supposedly known for intense academics and sports, I shall forsee this and adhere to the thread topic instead.</p>
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Someone needs to work on their math skills… 25/479 is roughly 5%, and that seems a lot more accurate than 15-20%. Duke accepts the number of people they want in freshman acceptances and then the number who get in transfer is based on how many spaces they have available among the upperclassmen (people drop out, take a year off, etc.), so that’s why it’s so low. The people who manage to transfer in are probably the students who had decent grades/test scores in hs, went to a not-great school for the first yr or two of college, did research/worked with a professor, got solid grades and recommendations, and want to transfer to a top-10 school. I doubt many came from other top-10 schools for the social life or for the sports - who’d put in the amount of work needed to transfer from one top-10 school to another top-10 school simply because of the social life? Even if the party scene isn’t as visible at other schools as it is at Duke, it’s definitely still existent. And if it’s because of college sports, you’d probably take that into consideration when applying to schools for freshman yr…</p>