<p>Received my Likely Letter Today, So excited…My Stats-</p>
<p>African-American Male from Baltimore Maryland
GPA: ~94.473 unweighted/96.925 weighted (out of 100)
Rank: 9 out of 340 ~ Top 2%
SATs: 680 math 600 critical reading 620 writing (Superscored)
SAT IIs: 640 biology ecology, 620 physics, 680 math I, 700 math II
AP Scores: Chemistry 2, United States History 4, American Government 4, Calculus AB 5</p>
<p>Honors/Awards:
-11th place in Woodbridge Competition(Group Competition) (9th) -Advanced to National History Day States(10th) -Baltimore Science Fair Recognition(United States Public Health Service Surgeon General’s Award) (11th) -AP Scholar (11th) -Honorable Mentioned Maryland Distinguished Scholar (12th)</p>
<p>E/Cs:
Track and Field (10th and 12th)
Treasury of 10th Grade Class
Received over 75 hours of community service for volunteering in Costa Rica(10th grade)
Student tutor in Math in 11th grade
Science research (researched over 120 hours in the summer going into 11th grade, researched about 8 hours a week in 11th grade, research over 120 hours in the summer going to 12th grade)
Volunteer each summer on trips(environmental study and community service) sponsored by the National Aquarium in Baltimore<br>
-9th grade- Watershed Ecology in Cambridge, Maryland
-10th grade-Protecting of Sea Turtles in Jekyll Island, Georgia
-11th grade- Coral Reef Ecology in Pigeon Key, Florida
-12th grade- Shark Tagging in Ocean City, Maryland
-Church Usher
-Participated in Thanksgiving Day Basket Drive (11th and 12th)
Participate in Red Cross Blood Drive
-Participated in the Siemens Westinghouse Science Competition (12th)
-Participated in the Intel Science Competition (12th)
-National Honor Society Member (12th)</p>
<p>I got the likely letter! I didn’t even realize it was a likely letter until I came on here. Wow. I know it doesn’t guarantee anything though, so I’m trying NOT to get my hopes up</p>
<p>danceluvur, Duke doesn’t send out likelies that aren’t sincere. Obviously, everyone admitted to Duke is qualified in many categories for admission to several peer colleges…and there is some luck involved.
Barring your getting arrested or turning in a series of Cs and Ds on your final transcript in June, you will have the choice to move onto the very homey East Campus next fall with the class of 2014. And from your screen name…sounds like you will be contributing to Duke’s fine dance programming. Good luck as you make your final decisions and enjoy your “early write.” Hope you choose to be a Blue Devil.</p>
<p>Duke, like many peer institutions and small and larger colleges, does a a form of intentional minority recruitment but they will also release a couple hundred just plain old likely letters to a general pool of top sought after students of all backgrounds. </p>
<p>With a graduation rate as high as Duke’s, Duke is only admitting students that can handle the challenge.</p>
<p>Many of the recipients get multiple “likely letters” and they will not all choose Duke. Many equally qualified students will not get a likely letter from Duke, but may hear from other colleges…it is all a bit of a random process. Everyone gets access to a need blind admission process and to a no loan and very good financial need program.</p>
<p>I’m fairly positive likely letters go out to non-minority candidates as well (abt 300). Based on what I’ve been able to deduce from past threads, students generally receive them around March 13th. So I would imagine some CCers will be getting them this or next week.</p>
<p>Holy crap!! I just check my email and got a BSAI invite. Mucho unexpected.</p>
<p>My stats Suck(but i think it was my essays):
SAT:1840 (1870 super-score)
GPA:3.97
Val
Alot of leadership
Submitted Art works for review
Amazing Interview</p>
<p>I just got it today. Well actually I got two haha. I’m a black hipanic( Puerto Rican and Dominican. Think Jose Reyes, David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Carlos Delgado, etc.) and on the Common app i put i was both hispanic and black so I got invited to both the Latino and the black student weekends. I also got another email saying I could only pick one lol.</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2030(1350)
SAT IIs: U.S. 720, Chem 650, Spanish 650
Rank: 12/400
3 sport varsity athlete(not recruited though)
Very personal and moving essay. Only let one of my friends read it and she cried afterwards.
Both of my parents were immigrants
1st Generation college student
Don’t have a lot of money lol. I qualified for a fee waiver for all of my apps.
APs- 5 Euro, 5 APUSH, 4 Eng Lang, 3 Eng lit, 3 Chem. Taking 5 more APs this year</p>
<p>Perhaps these letters aren’t necessarily “likely letters”. I recently received an email (and letter) about becoming a finalist for a (full-ride) scholarship to Duke. In the letter it explicitly states “Shortly, you will receive the official letter of acceptance from the Office of Undergraduate Admissions inviting you to join Duke University’s Class of 2014.” A week prior, I received a letter from Dartmouth that contained a similar statement. These minority emails just seem to hint at one’s chances for admissions and do not seem to guarantee it.</p>
<p>It is not a guarantee but it does say the following:</p>
<p>“Naturally, inviting you to campus means that we think youre a very strong candidate for admission. Very occasionally, something happens or we receive new information between the time we mail our invitation and the time we finalize admissions decisions, and we find we cant admit someone weve invited. But thats very rare. Your chances of being
admitted are excellent.”</p>
<p>Can someone provide proof that likelies are not only sent to minorities? I know someone said that likely letters are sent to non minorities but where is there proof of this?</p>
<p>^Do a google search, or even better, search through past threads in the Duke forum. Many people (including Asians!) have said they’ve gotten likely letters.</p>
<p>don’t be desperate…if you have the goods to hope for a likely letter…you will get into good colleges Duke or no Duke if you also applied to schools with better admission rates than Duke U.</p>
<p>Do a search from last March…and you will see the approximate date of the general like-lies. Yes, we have a white male friend who got a likely invite to Duke. He did not choose to attend Duke but he got a (rare) likely letter. He chose an Ivy. Please remember that many who get these letters are not coming to Duke and they probably get multiple invitations. Duke has a good yield rate but don’t freak out…many who are being recruited are not going to “take a seat.”</p>
<p>My son turned down colleges that gave him like-lies…and attended Duke…which did not send him any encouragement whatsoever.</p>
<p>You guys need to relax - those who apply to schools such as Duke have stellar stats and applications. And yet, only the TOP 200-300 of those already TOP applicants receive a likely letter. That’s < 0.8% of applicants, a much lower percentage than Duke’s overall admit rate.</p>
<p>Do not expect a letter such as this. If you get one, great. If you don’t get one, then whatever. Remember, you’re more than likely not to get one. Most of Duke’s admitted class DID NOT receive this letter.</p>
<p>On another note, just wait haha. Duke’s decision will be there in less than a month. I know this is a stressful time but thinking about it too much/often will only make things worse.</p>