<p>Well, bluestar I have already made up my mind to go to Duke now that I know I am accepted. Well, even before I knew I was a "likely," I considered Duke holy. I hope to see you there!</p>
<p>Devil May Cry: what are your stats?</p>
<p>Devil May Cry, when was the letter dated, I live in So Calif so mail takes a while to get here from east coast, just wanted to know... I really want to get into that program.</p>
<p>Mine was postmarked February 23</p>
<p>Here are my stats in case anyone wants to see them. I recieved my letter this past saturday and it was a huge surprise. </p>
<p>School Type: public
Location: New York
Race/Gender: Black/ African American Male
Prospective Major: History
AIM: Hermes2623
Unweighted GPA: 94.75
Weighted GPA: 96.64
Class rank: ? of 385</p>
<p>SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 670
SAT I Verbal: 660</p>
<p>ACT Scores
ACT Composite: 32</p>
<p>SAT II Scores
SAT II Writing: 660
SAT II U.S. History: 700
SAT II Math IC: 630
SAT II Ecological Biology: 620</p>
<p>Long-form Info</p>
<p>Extracurricular Info
Newspaper
Yearbook
Wrestling
Track
Karate - national competitor
Focus on helping America
Key Club
Art club
National Art Honor society
National Honor Society
Student body governemnt - treasurer</p>
<p>Venture Scholar
Who's Who Among American High School Students
High Honor Roll each year
Honorable mention - National Spanish Exam
National Honor Roll
National Society of High School Scholars
National Achievement</p>
<p>Look up my username and you'll find them somwhere. I believe it was my ECs and essays that were my strong point. Every Christmas I volunteer in Johannesburg, South Africa. I also play soccer(team captain), am a trombone player, an academic decathlete, all the honor society's you can think of, 40 hr week volunteer work sometimes, etc.</p>
<p>You can also find my essay on What are my chances?</p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>African American senior
3.5444 GPA (5.2666 weighted)
Class Rank: 41/ 520 (top 10%)
Classes Taking now:
Bio 2 Ap
Govt. Ap
Calc AB AP
English IV AP
Music History H
PSycology AP
Humanities H</p>
<p>Last sem I got straight As</p>
<p>ECs:
Soccer all my life (Team Captain)
St. Lukes Hospital Community Service (40 hours/ week during the summer)
Volunteer Work in SOuth Africa every Christmas with the children affected by AIDs (my mother is from Johannesburg, SOuth Africa)
Math Honor Society (Math Competitor) 4 yr
English Honor Society 2 yr
National Honor Society 2 yr
Guitar Player all my life
Science National Honor Society 2 yr
2 years of Trombone at school
Academic Decathlon 2 years (Scholastic Team Captain)</p>
<p>Honors:
Solo and Ensemble 1st place winner twice for trombone
Academic decathlon silver medal winner at interview
Numerous soccer medals
guitar music and sound first place winner
st. lukes hospital appreciation awards</p>
<p>Scores: ACTs: 28 then 32</p>
<p>Excellent recommendations
EXCELLENT ESSAYS</p>
<p>I applied to
Emory
Rice (my father went and taught there)
Upenn
Dartmouth
Cornell
Duke</p>
<p>I have taken the hardest courses possible</p>
<p>i am not questioning the validity of your post DMC but how do you have a weighted gpa over 5.0??? do some classes weight more than 5 in your school our something?</p>
<p>and my stats you can find in a forum somwhere but heres short form:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.9w 3.7uw
rank: 26/339
SAT: 1360 690v670m
SAT II:670/670/680</p>
<p>loads ec/leadership
300+ coumminity service
well crafted essays
great recs</p>
<p>the max weighted is 5. However, for honors classes we get 6 points, so...ya.</p>
<p>in my high school they weighted to a 6 for ap :)</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>BLUE DEVILS!</p>
<p>If you read "Admissions Confidential", you'd see that every student invited to the Minority Recruitment Weekend was a Minority Auto Admit. Duke wants you guys.</p>
<p>Joey</p>
<p>OMG thats awesome</p>
<p>I did a stupid thing.........I sent an email to Ms. Cortina telling her how much I want to go to Duke. My stats are similar to yours and I would have taken 6 AP by the end of HS. Why didn't I get an invite? BRGHHH!!!! I am a latina 100% and I want to do engineering</p>
<p>does duke pay for the flight if you have to fly? i went to the vision weekend at rice and they paid for my flight ticket, so i wasnt sure about duke. it didnt say in the letter, i dont think.</p>
<p>MORE QUESTIONS!
how many people are invited to this thing as in what percent of the minority applicants that are accepted. Another thing, there is a scholarship for minorities that a few few few people get. I was wondering, do some kids get accepted into this and therefore do not get the letters inviting them to the recruitment weekend because they will come in a later weekend or am i just wishing too hard about this whole thing. I WANT TO GO TO DUKE SO BADLY IT HURTS! If i do not get in i will be missing a piece of my soul. . . some one give me a bit of hope.</p>
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how many people are invited to this thing as in what percent of the minority applicants that are accepted./quote]</p>
<p>I don't know what percentage of minority applicants are accepted, but I can tell you that at Duke, minorities have a huge admissions advantage. According to Admissions Confidential, Duke will normally not seriously consider an unhooked white or Asian applicant with SAT scores of below a 1480. So most of these scores would NOT have made the cut without some help. </p>
<p>And I'm pretty sure that they pay for your flight.</p>
<p>Joey</p>
<p>How can they not consider an unhooked white/asian applicant with sub-1480? This is Duke, not Caltech...and I believe their median SAT is in the low 1400's. I know a fairly "unhooked" white dude who got in ED with a 1350. I simply don't believe that someone in the 1400ish range and in the top 1-2% of his/her class wouldn't have a great shot.</p>
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How can they not consider an unhooked white/asian applicant with sub-1480? This is Duke, not Caltech...and I believe their median SAT is in the low 1400's. I know a fairly "unhooked" white dude who got in ED with a 1350. I simply don't believe that someone in the 1400ish range and in the top 1-2% of his/her class wouldn't have a great shot.
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<p>I know it sounds ridiculous. But if you read the book, it's really very shocking. Duke has this rating system by which they auto-deny vast numbers of applicants, all of whom you might think had a "great shot". It's not really fair, but it's the way things work.</p>
<p>Part of it is out of the necessity to raise their average scores. Duke accepts lots of minorities, legacies, athletes, and "institutional interest" cases, and the author openly admits that the student body is weighted with these hooked applicants, who typically have lower scores.</p>
<p>And while that white kid got in ED, I was referring to the RD admissions process. The book openly discusses how ED standards are much lower than RD standards. They will take bright, well-rounded kids with 1350's in the ED round, who would be auto-denies in the RD round.</p>
<p>I might add that while they don't just dump a file into the reject pile for lack of a 1480, it definitely is a major criteron for acceptance, and it has a disproportionate sway on admissions decisions for unhooked applicants.</p>
<p>So this is not really my opinion, I'm just re-iterating what I read.</p>
<p>Joey</p>
<p>I have to say that kinda makes sense now. Except for kids from NC (who were like valedictorians with low 1400s), I know very few white and asian kids here who made it through the RD round without a 1500+. But I also know a lot of kids who got in ED who had 1500+. That said, I know a number of athletes and legacies who got in early decision who probably wouldn't have were they an "unhooked" applicant regular decision. Hmm...</p>