My First Choice

Duke is absolutely my first choice and I really see myself succeeding there. However I am not sure that I have a shot at getting in so I do not know if I should use my ED there. I have a 33 act and a 3.85 (4.0 scale) gpa. I am an aspiring med school student so my resume is padded with all sorts of medical experience (shadowing surgeons, volunteering at hospital, certified EMT). I also work for a global education company where I teach blind students how to program and design on computers. I also have played a sport all three seasons and was selected for boys state. I have been on high honors all my years and national honors society. I took four AP courses my junior year and am taking four my senior year. Please let me know if you think I should pick a new school to ED to or if I should still try. Any information would be helpful

I recently toured Duke (about a week ago) and in their admissions presentation they shared that the ED acceptance rate is about 25% while the RD acceptance rate is <4%. They fill about half of their class in the ED round and the rest with the RD round, and they get waay more RD applications.

If Duke is your first choice, you have much better odds of getting in ED!