<p>Duke:<a href=“https://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2012profile.html[/url]”>https://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2012profile.html</a>
Penn:[Penn</a> Admissions: Incoming Class Profile](<a href=“http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/profile/]Penn”>http://www.admissionsug.upenn.edu/profile/)</p>
<p>Duke’s 25th-75th SAT range for accepted students
Trinity (1370-1550): approx. 1460
Pratt (1420-1560): approx. 1490</p>
<p>Penn’s 25th-75th SAT range for accepted students
Penn (1330-1540): approx. 1435</p>
<p>Duke’s acceptance rate (4202/20400): 20.598%
Penn’s acceptance rate (3888/22935): 16.9523%
Duke’s yield rate (1716/4202): 40.8377%
Penn’s yield rate (2445/3888): 62.8858%
% of Duke’s class via Early Decision (466/1716): 27.1562%
% of Penn’s class via Early Decision (1147/2445): 46.9121%
Duke’s yield rate w/o ED (1250/3727): 33.539%
Penn’s yield rate w/o ED (1298/2741): 47.355%</p>
<p>Duke has a higher SAT score average for admitted students than Penn but a higher acceptance rate.
I know of an AB scholar at Duke who got into HYP but didn’t get into Penn. He didn’t really care much when Penn didn’t take him after the other acceptances.
This seems to show some evidence that Penn may practice yield protection through Early Decision and other holistic and objective methods.</p>
<p>Chicago is incredibly self-selecting. Many are intimidated by the essays and don’t like it upon visiting.
For a lot of people (those who are not intellectually curious), it is the school “where fun goes to die”.</p>