<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2310
[</em>] SAT IIs:5 taken, all 700+
[<em>] GPA: 4.6 W
[</em>] Rank: n/a
[<em>] Other stats: 5'4", blondie, the cat's pajamas
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: no one read them except me (and the admissions committee), but I thought they were strong
[<em>] Teacher Recs: didn't read these
[</em>] Counselor Rec: didn't read this
[<em>] Hook (if any): world renown goblin slayer
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: California
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]Other Factors:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars:I run my own nonprofit, literary magazine, ballet, piano, tutoring, babysitter, several clubs in school. alternatively, I am a ninja.
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/rejected/waitlisted: National poetry, piano, and Latin awards. Dean's list, all my classes are AP, etc. Everyone has great stats. I was lucky!
[</em>] Other thoughts: so excited! the college process is very vicious and random, so not one person who didn't get in to Duke hould be dissapointed. there are so many great schools out there, and I really wish the best of luck to you all! [/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 800M/700V/730W 2230
[</em>] SAT IIs: 780IIC, 770Chem, 760 Bio
[<em>] GPA: 4.32, 4.0/4.0
10 AP classes, 3 College (psych, multivariable cal, C++)
[</em>] Rank: 3
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: specifics were BAD. common were OKAY
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good - Very Good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Very Good
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: CA
[<em>] School Type: Pubic
[</em>] Ethnicity: Taiwan
[<em>] Gender: M Major: Bioeng AIM: asfsamurai3
[/ul]Other Factors:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars: President - asian culture club, President - Tri-M music society, President - San Diego Rubik's Society, VP - NHS, concertmaster, Tennis/Soccer, Debate team, Sci O, Siemen's Westinghouse, Academic League,
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/deferred: hmmm flip a coin. that was how they accepted me.
[</em>] Other thoughts: yay!? [/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2220 (700R, 740M, 780W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 710 Chemistry, 750 Math 2
[<em>] GPA: 3.8 UW, 4.25 W
[</em>] Rank: HS doesn't rank
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I though they were pretty good
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Probably pretty good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Probably pretty good
[<em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: MD
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: Not a whole lot of EC's
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Probably because of my small list of EC's.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>Disappointed, but life will go on. I got into my top choice, UCLA, so even though that is where I was going to go anyway getting rejected sucks. Congrats to all who got in, you deserve it!</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 2330 (800 M, 740 CR, 790 W)
* SAT IIs:Bio, Physics, IIC, Writing, US History (770, 770, 790, 770, 760)
* GPA: 4.8W
* Rank: top 5%
* Other stats: 5 9 asian wrestler 145 lbs
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: I liked them a lot
* Teacher Recs: awesome
* Counselor Rec: awesome
* Hook (if any): I'm the only asian/musician/wrestler/scientist/philanthropist I can think of :D
</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: California Los Angeles!
* School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: Male
</code></pre>
<p>Other Factors:</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars:Varsity Wrestling, Science internship with Caltech prof, Varsity Track and Field, President/FOunder of various clubs/community organizations; math awards, etc...
* Other thoughts: Oh my goodness I'm so happy! Duke is phenomenal!!! Can't wait to visit!
</code></pre>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2220 (800V, 690M, 730W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 750 US History, 730 Math I, 700 Literature
[<em>] ACT: 32 (32 English, 34 Math, 30 Reading, 31 Science)
[</em>] GPA: 4.2W, 3.88UW
[<em>] Rank: 5/763
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Everyone thinks thiers are good, no?
[<em>] Teacher Recs: They are my homeboys; they hooked me up.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I have a cool counselor who writes cool recs.
[<em>] Hook (if any): Upper Middle Class White Male
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Albuquerque, New Mexico
[<em>] School Type: Large Suburban Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White (German and Scandinavian, blonde hair & blue eyes)
[<em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars: ISEF Finalist two years in a row, Siemens-Westinghouse Semifinalist, Intern at Federal Nuclear Research Facility, lots of Science competitions. Volunteering, Music, Athletics
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/rejected/waitlisted: I'm not going to put anything here because I don't want to be a d-bag.
[</em>] Other thoughts: See above question.[/ul]</p>
<p>How do you know if you've been accepted into BME? Or does being accepted into Duke engineering automatically mean that you can do BME? (A little confused by an above post)</p>
<p>Anyway...</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2390 800 CR 800 M 790 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Maths 2 800 Chem 800 Physics
[<em>] ACT: NA
[</em>] GPA: NA
[<em>] Rank: NA
[</em>] Other stats: A levels - 4As, 2 distinctions, A2
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Rushed the essays actually. Common app essay wrote about piano/risk, wrote a little about volunteer work in the short answer. Then the usual why I wanted to go to Duke and added something about this semi-research thing I did.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Confidential
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Confidential
[</em>] Hook (if any): Music? I play the piano at a fairly high level... Want to try out Jazz too!
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Singapore
[</em>] School Type: Public independent
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]Other Factors:[list]
[<em>] Extracurriculars: 14 years of piano, was chairperson of my CCA, also took part in ensemble performances etc etc etc
[</em>] Why I think I was accepted/rejected/waitlisted: SAT scores? Quite a lot of activities though...?
[*] Other thoughts: All the best to everyone waitlisted! =)</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2080 (770M 620CR 700W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800M2c 770M1c 800Ph 700Ch
[<em>] GPA: 9.64/10
[</em>] Rank: 3rd in last 3 years, 1st in this year
[li] Other stats: Bronze Medal at IPhO2005, winner of various physics contests/olympiads.</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>[li] Essays: Pretty Good?[/li][li] Teacher Recs: Very good?[/li][li] Counselor Rec: Very Good[/li][li] Hook (if any): IPhO Medalist, essay showing the passion for science.[/li]</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>[li] Region: Eastern Europe[/li][li] School Type: Private[/li][li] Ethnicity: Romanian[/li][li] Gender: Male[/li][li] major strength/weakness: Physics / Bad Critical Reading[/li][li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Passion seen clearly in application.[/li]</code></pre>
<p>[/ul] Other Factors:
Mmm... perhaps people from my area are highly underrepresented at Duke</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2180 (790 M 710 CR 680 W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 760 Physics, 760 Chem, 760 US History, 740 IIC
[<em>] ACT: 30 (didnt send)
[</em>] GPA: 97.9 (9-11) weighted (about 3.9 UW)
[<em>] Rank: 38/449 (15/449 for 11th grade only)
[</em>] Other stats: 5's on AP Chem and AP World History, 4 on AP US
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: they were decent
[</em>] Teacher Recs: didnt read but probably good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: good
[</em>] Hook (if any): none at all
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NY
[</em>] School Type: Competitive Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors:[list]
[<em>] Extracurriculars: all county bowler, placed in national tourneys- a few other decent things also
[</em>] Why I think I was accepted/rejected/waitlisted: SATs, class rank too low, didnt stand out at all, pretty much didnt deserve to get in
[*] Other thoughts: deferred ED- but i got into JHU and BC so ill be ok even though Duke was my first choice</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 770M, 670CR, 690 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math IIC 800, Chemistry 800, US history 720
[<em>] ACT: -
[</em>] GPA:4.2 Weighted(3.7 UW) in senior year first semester
[<em>] Rank:11/65
[</em>] Other stats: TOEFL 287, AMC and AIME qualifier for the past 2 years, AP Calc 5 (both AB and BC), Chemistry 4, Us History 4..currently I'm taking 4 APs and one honors and one independent course.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: good but not particularly powerful..I just wrote what I wanted to write
[</em>] Teacher Recs: excellent (especially from my math teacher)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: very good
[</em>] Hook (if any): Women's Technology Program at MIT
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: I go to a boarding high school in Colorado, but I'm from South Korea (therefore international)
[</em>] School Type: Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: Korean
[</em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]Other Factors:[list]
[<em>] Extracurriculars: Habitat for Humanity, violin, painting (I made a portfolio although I have not taken any art class in high school..it's just a hobby), math peer tutoring, school's international students club president, Varsity Field Hockey (and some awards for that), Community service in Costa Rica, conservation corps, etc..
[</em>] Why I think I was accepted/rejected/waitlisted: I took AB Calc in my sophomore year and got a C+, and I took BC Calc the next year and got an A+ (5 in both AP exams). I think my grades showed that I challenged myself, and actually ended up improving. Also I was in an English-as-a-second-language program the whole time in my freshmen year, and 3 years later I decided to take AP English.. My essay topic was actually about challenge.
[<em>] Other thoughts:
my SAT scores In Korea the competition for getting into top colleges is pretty high--they have hundreds of institutions like Princeton Review that teaches how to guess correctly when you are taking your SAT tests and such. Some institutions have their students' essays corrected by "professionals" because if they send their students to "good" schools that'll raise their reputation. It's kinda sad how things work, but it feels great to be accepted to a very competitive school like Duke without all that B</em>ll*****. Guess what? my total SAT score is not even 2150! what a miracle...</p>
<p>Stats:
*SAT I (by section): 2270 (760 M, 730 R, 780 W)
*SAT IIs: 800 Math IIC, 800 Bio E, 710 Physics
*APs: two 5's, two 4's
*GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.97/4.0 unweighted, 4.8/5.0 weighted
*Rank: top 5% out of class of 541
*Senior Yr Courseload: tough
*Number of Apps from Your School: a lot probably
*Other stats: National Merit commended, AP scholars thingie, MD Distinguished Scholar HM</p>
<p>Subjective:
*ECs listed on app: volleyball, violin, biology club, tang soo do (karate), chorus, volunteering
*Job/Work Experience: work at a Kumon (tutoring) place, NASA internship
*Essays (subject and responses): common app ones were good, duke one okay
*Teacher Recs: probably good, didn't read
*Counselor Rec: probably good, didn't read
*Interview: didn't ask for one, probably should've...
*Hook (if any): NASA SHARP internship, captain of volleyball team, president of Biology Club</p>
<p>Location/Person:
*State or Country: Maryland
*School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): great, colleges love us
*Ethnicity: Asian
*Income Bracket: middle class
*Gender: female</p>
<p>Strengths/Weaknesses:
*Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: maybe my essays weren't good/unique enough?
*General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I'm very upset about being waitlisted...I really wanted to go to Duke. At least it wasn't an outright rejection though, even though I don't have much hope for being accepted later anyways...anyone know specific waitlist stats?</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2100 (680m680v740w)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 680chem/610mathIIC
[<em>] ACT:None
[</em>] GPA: 3.83w
[<em>] Rank: 10%; 19/540 (latter not reported)
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: General-great, creative kind of; Why Duke: Very touching
[</em>] Teacher Recs: 1 good; 1 excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Okay I guess; rather generic
[</em>] Hook (if any): I'm awesome. j/k
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Maryland
[</em>] School Type: Large, public
[<em>] Ethnicity: African American
[</em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]Other Factors: [ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars: Flag Girl (co-captain); NHS (Prez); FBLA (Sec.); Other community and performing arts stuff
[</em>] Random:6 APs; Nat'l Achievement Finalist;Summer jobs; Scientific Rsearch Internships; Chem major; Broke; etc
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/rejected/waitlisted: I guess the chemistry was just there b/n me and the school
[</em>] Other thoughts: Life's good now. How bout that financial aid, though?[/ul]</p>
<p>SATs:680V/710M/650W= 1390 Old/2040 New
GPA:4.0uw/4.4w
Rank:9/298
Courseload:7 AP courses total, mostly honors courses
ECs:Varsity Soccer, Basketball, and Lacrosse. Quiz Bowl team, National Art awards, Play three instruments- trumpet, baritone, and french horn, Spanish NHS, NHS, Italian/Irish Club, etc.
Good essays/OK recs
Gender/Race: Male/White
School Type: Very competitive Catholic in Washington D.C.
Hometown: MD
Weaknesses: no SAT IIs
Strengths:diversity of ECs</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted (Pratt School of Engineering)</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT I: 800 M, 680 V, 740 W
ACT: 34
SAT IIs: Math IC: 780 Math IIC: 780, US History: 770, Chem: 760
GPA: 100.689 W
Rank: 2/330 </p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: Copy/Paste Job from Common App stuff
Teacher Recs: Probably Decent
Counselor Rec: I love the guy
Hook (if any): besides being the Wayman, nada</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: NY (Long Island)
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Ragin' Caucasian
Gender: Male</p>
<p>Other Factors: I didn't tell them that I was a huge Michigan State fan when it comes to NCAA bball
General Comments: This is where all my buddies wanna see me, as a Cameron Crazy. As of now, I'm choosing between Duke, Columbia, and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2260
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 790 750
[<em>] GPA: 4.6 (14 APs, all As)
[</em>] Rank: 2/182
[<em>] Other stats: 35 ACT
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I liked them
[<em>] Teacher Recs: dont know
[</em>] Counselor Rec: generic
[<em>] Hook (if any): none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Ohio
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: male
[/ul]Other Factors:[list]
[</em>] Extracurriculars: work on a farm, VP of a few clubs
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/deferred: solid stats, good essays
[</em>] Other thoughts: Im happy</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: M: 790, CR: 750, W: 790
[</em>] SAT IIs: M2C: 800, Chem: 780, USH: 760, Bio: 750
[<em>] ACT: 35
[</em>] GPA: 3.89 unweighted, 4.4 weighted
[<em>] Rank: N/A
[</em>] Other stats:
[<em>] Deferred?:
[</em>] # of apps from your school: 3 or 4
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: 7 on the 1-10 scale
[</em>] Teacher Recs: 1 Really good, 1 at least good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: No idea
[</em>] Hook (if any): 2 summers research, 2 college math classes
[<em>] Important ECs: Youth Philanthropy group
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Alabama
[<em>] School Type: Public Magnet (small)
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Perceived Strengths/Weaknesses: Not great at writing, good math
[li] Why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: Just not good enough[/li][/ul]Other Factors: General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:</p>