<p>What’s up with duke’s transfer rate? is there some factor skewing it or is it really just that hard to get in? It seems like a really big jump to go from over 20% accepted freshman year to a rate similar to ivys for transfers. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>It’s actually 14% for freshmen, not 20%. So we’re pretty close.</p>
<p>the reason the rates so low is because the retention rate is so high</p>
<p>And because:
-more people are applying to college.
-Applying to an extra college is just a button click away thanks to the Common App.
-each successive high school class is bigger than the previous one.
-Colleges aren’t using their money to build more housing or hire more faculty, but save it for other facilities/research/athletics/scholarships (I’m just making a generalization and don’t know if this even applies to Duke)
-Attracting students is a much bigger priority than accomodating them. It helps a college if they spend money on these other things which will boost its prestige so that it will always have a large fresh applicant pool every year</p>
<p>the ED rate is in the high thirties though, I thought, which brings the overall rate up considerably. maybe not?</p>
<p>Did anyone receive any emails in the past few weeks? Especially regarding the mid-May Day of Judgment? :-)</p>
<p>according to threads last year, i think the first emails that they send out involve how to check your decision online. then, they post the decision like 3 days later. </p>
<p>i could be completely wrong… but i think that’s how it works. last year, the first emails were sent on may 15th… then the decision was posted on may 18th.</p>
<p>i wonder how duke treats junior transfer applicants. the school is great, but it seems that it would be difficult to come in so late.</p>
<p>@Rebanne</p>
<p>Why do you say that?</p>
<p>I just called, really nice woman says decisions will be posted on Tuesday, May 18th after 10 am!</p>
<p>Wow. I am super anxious to hear back… Good luck to everyone who applied :)</p>
<p>i’m soooo nervous. i got accepted into georgetown, but duke has been my dream school since forever. good luck everyone! only 6 more days!</p>
<p>@mtkinger </p>
<p>I presume it would be harder to come in so late ( if I applied next year as a junior) because a school located in a less ‘urban setting’ might make it more difficult for me to fit right in. Already, most juniors would have been in the area for two years, giving them the advantage. Also, it would probably be difficult to adapt to the core curriculum courses needed for trinity.</p>
<p>T-minus 123 hours.</p>
<p>Does anyone know when we should hear back from financial aid? I was granted an extension from another school until the 24th, so hopefully before then?</p>
<p>Hopefully they’ll let us know with our decision tomorrow. If not, you can call them and say that issue is time sensitive and you need to hear back. Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>admitted!!! now i have to decide between upenn and duke</p>
<p>I’M IN! It’s between Cornell and Duke. (But I still want to hear from Swarthmore and Barnard; I’m waitlisted.) All of them are tied for me.</p>
<p>Waitlisted. I’m not going to stay on it. Thanks but no thanks, Duke; I’ll take a real offer from Brown or Penn over a hypothetical possibility of an offer from you any day. Congratulations to all the accepted people, and my condolences to all the rejected people or wait listed people who really wanted that acceptance.</p>
<p>Accepted! Can’t believe it. Hmmm, Duke or Georgetown? Decisions, decisions…</p>