<p>I don't think this thread exists yet, so here we go. I'll get things started:</p>
<p>I'm from India, lived in Singapore practically my whole life. I have academic interests in economics, political science, creative writing, sociology, math and history. </p>
<p>Submitted my supplement just a couple of hours short of the interview deadline.</p>
<p>Good luck sextuple-majoring ;)</p>
<p>haha I kid. Hope you get in.</p>
<p>hahaha, i’m not majoring in everything!</p>
<p>theres actually a chain called “2014 duke hopefuls” or something like that. but this works too.</p>
<p>i wanna do economics or medicine! good luck to you guys!</p>
<p>Current student here, so I won’t be needing any luck, but thanks anyway ;)</p>
<p>Hiya! Submitted my supplement a while back (for the interview deadline lol). Interested in neuroscience and linguistics.</p>
<p>Submitted my supplement back in the middle of November. Interested in Economics. Live 30 minutes away from Duke and have always loved the school (my dad went there, so hopefully I can follow in his footsteps).</p>
<p>hiya. do you guys think Duke is harder to get in than Upenn? A friend of mine got deferred from duke but got into Upenn.</p>
<p>UPenn is “harder”</p>
<p>Every school is different. Someone might get into Penn but not Duke, and another might get into Duke but not Penn.</p>
<p>You cannot talk about Penn like it’s a single institution. Wharton is noticeably harder to get into than the CAS. In terms of admissions difficulty (approximate): </p>
<p>Wharton > Duke > Penn CAS</p>
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<p>I agree with ENTPforTheWin. A lot of my friends at Duke who applied to Penn either got in to CAS/Nursing/Engineering or got waitlisted/rejected for Wharton. Albeit there are definitely those who turn down Wharton for Duke, but I think it’s pretty safe to say that in terms of difficulty, Wharton > Duke = (more so equal to than greater than) Penn CAS > Nursing/Engineering at Penn. Once you get into the topic of admissions at schools such as this though, it becomes a crapshoot.</p>
<p>Is it worth applying to Duke if I want to do econ but I’ve already gotten into Chicago? It would be a tough choice either way for me, but how good is Duke’s financial aid, on average?</p>
<p>Well it depends on what you’re looking for in a college. I’m incredibly jealous that you’ve already been accepted at Chicago by the way but generally speaking, Chicago will be able to provide you a better environment for studying economics if that’s the primary thing you’re looking at in your prospective college. But if you’re interested in things like location, weather, community, athletics, social life and so on then you’re headed for a tough choice.</p>
<p>But my friend applied for ED at Duke and got deferred but applied to Wharton at Penn and got in.</p>
<p>Here’s some insight into how Duke competes vs other top schools. It’s a couple of years old, but I would imagine that it’s still directionally accurate…</p>
<p>[Duke</a> Magazine-Top of the Crop by Jacob Dagger-January/February 2006](<a href=“Duke Mag”>Duke Mag)</p>
<p>You can see in here that UPenn falls into the “50%” category…</p>
<p>“Based on acceptance rates, Duke continues to fall behind a few choice schools in terms of selectivity. Against five of those schools in particular, Duke faces substantial recruiting obstacles. According to matriculation data, Duke is successful in wooing to campus only about 15 percent of those admitted students who are also accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, or Stanford. Against the next group–Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Penn–Duke does better, enrolling about 50 percent. In recruiting battles against the third five–Georgetown, Chicago, Washington University, Northwestern, and Cornell–Duke is successful about 80 percent of the time.”</p>
<p>has duke’s ranking improved over the years? just wondering for my essay</p>
<p>^ Nah, it was #3 at some point, but the Duke lacrosse scandal and a shakeup in the English department screwed some stuff up. Plus, places like Caltech started getting more nationwide recognition. It’s still top 10, though, and many expect it to start rising again over the years (noting it’s 33% increase in ED apps this year, one NOT SHARED by Yale, Dartmouth, Stanford, etc.) Do not listen to anything interestingguy says on this point. He’s a biased ■■■■■.</p>
<p>A 33% ED increase does not mean Duke’s recognition will increase, or even that the quality of its incoming class will. Until you have sufficient information about the quality of those who have joined the applicant pool, and about the number of those applicants who’re willing to enroll if accepted, we can’t pass any judgment.</p>
<p>does RD give applicants a better chance of getting in that ED? or the other way around?</p>