<p>Yes, they are at "top of the crop"</p>
<p>But I mean just the general applicant, not likelies.</p>
<p>The general applicant is of the Penn/Dartmouth level.</p>
<p>Globber: weren't you a tasper? the tasp thread is too long for me to read but i remember seeing your name.</p>
<p>globber, when did u receive ur likely letter?</p>
<p>what the heck is a tasper?</p>
<p>someone who attended the Telluride Association Summer Program</p>
<p>can you check your likely letter online in my D?</p>
<p>Its not on there.</p>
<p>too bad harvard didn't think along the same lines as you guys - i was deferred haha.</p>
<p>No, Duke doesn't show likely letters on D. They mail it.</p>
<p>Is there a TASP program for Duke? What is it exactly?</p>
<p>Funny story: I was browsing this forum and came across this thread and remembered my unopened college letter pile that had one from Duke in there. I haven't been opening them lately (due to the fact that there's usually nothing important and I'm sups lazy) and I found one.</p>
<p>And, in response to question if Duke is on the same caliber as Wash U or Harvard --- I'd say in between. I got deferred from Harvard, and got onto this list. I'm not sure where that puts me.</p>
<p>But it's definately cool.</p>
<p>Yea I got deferred from Stanford and Im on the list too. Strange, since Duke is supposedly ranked higher. :D</p>
<p>college rankings surely are very subjective. if you look at admissions rates, duke is a little bit more lenient than a lot of the other ivies. penn is also the same way.</p>
<p>All likely letter recievers were valedictorians...at least on CC</p>
<p>I got a letter even though my school doesn't offiically rank...I wonder what other criteria they're using?</p>
<p>I wasn't valedictorian?</p>
<p>I got one, and I'm definitely not a valedictorian(GPA = around 3.8-ish)</p>
<p>ditto on daveed's post</p>