<p>Congrats @TreeGoat! Just curious, what major did you apply to?</p>
<p>Pratt biomedical engineering!</p>
<p>Bumping this thread for all those on the waitlist. Hopefully we hear back in the next week or two. </p>
<p>@TheEarlyBird Best of luck to you and all of us here on CC. I suspect we should hear something by the end of this week.</p>
<p>I can no longer log into my portal at applicants.siss.duke.edu. I expect we should be hearing back from admissions soon.</p>
<p>@KingofSweden you can’t log in at all? I can log in but my home page is blank and my worklist tab just has an empty table. Not sure if this means anything though.</p>
<p>My portal goes back and forth from a blank home page to a “You are not authorized for this page.” message. I guess it just means that they closed the portal for all applicants. Based on my contact with the admissions office, I don’t think any decisions have been made yet for waitlisted transfer applicants.</p>
<p>No updates so far. Just finished my last final so now I can focus my energy on waiting for the email and obsessing haha</p>
<p>@TheEarlyBird Same here. I would think if Duke was not using their waiting list for transfers, they would have notified us by now. Best of luck to everyone who is still waiting.</p>
<p>Got the call from my admissions officer today…I GOT IN!! <:-P</p>
<p>Best of luck to anyone still waiting!</p>
<p>@KingofSweden Same!! I was utterly speechless when I got the call!! Still in disbelief but now I’m faced with yet again another difficult life decision. Is there a Facebook group already?</p>
<p>@TheEarlyBird My family and I went totally berserk with jubilation. This is a big moment for us all!</p>
<p>I don’t believe there is a Facebook group, official or otherwise.</p>
<p>@KingofSweden I think there is. It’s called “Duke Transfers 2014-2015”. Come join! And I’m so glad we were both able to get in!</p>
<p>^ edit: “Duke Transfer Class 2014-15” is the group name. </p>
<p>can anyone of you two tell me about your gpa or other extra infos? Thanks!</p>
Hey all. I couldn’t find any official 2015 duke transfer thread so I figured future applicants looking for information will look at this thread. I just got my acceptance today so I thought I’d post my stats for future people to see.
Go to a school ranked between 150 and 200.
High School Stats:
3.76/4.00 GPA (unweighted, 4.490 weighted)
Number 1 in class (I took a lot of AP and honors courses)
Student Council (Held two leadership positions)
Key Club (Held two leadership positions, community service based)
NHS
Started Neuroresearch
2140 SAT
AP Score of 5 for: Statistics, US History, Biology, English and Comp, Calc BC, Psychology
AP Score of 4 for: Microeconomics
AP Score of 3 for: World History
College Stats:
4.00 GPA
88 credits after this semester (61 before)
Team Lead for 3 semesters of an engineering team working on a materials engineering solution in Kenya
Correspond with inmates to critique and help imrpove their writing
Work with a curriculum team for a bio class at a max-sec prison
Continued neuro research
Working on websites for the engineering team above and a literary magazine for prisoners
Computer Science and Biochemistry double major
My essays were about how dissatisfied I was with the low difficulty of the academics at my school and at the student population.
Admitted into Duke’s Computer Science program.
jtranxferman, I too was admitted for transfer this year! For everyone else:
I’m an international student from Colombia, so admissions was probably not as strict with ACT/SAT/AP scores…
I was a little bit sloppy in HS, so I had to make up in college to prove myself: I hope you see it’s never too late to start improving! I was admitted to Pratt as a rising sophomore; I was definitely not expecting it!
Anyway:
Highschool:
4.1/5.00 GPA (somewhat sloppy)
Rank: Top 40%
School Government: House Captain (most prestigious leadership position there)
Special Arts and Music Diploma
1820 SAT – 520CR, 550W, 750M… (I had to take this again in college)
AP Calculus AB: 5
AP Physics C Mechanics: 5
AP Music Theory: 3
College:
(2nd best, if not best, university in Colombia)
22nd highest national entrance exam score in the country (45,000 applicants)
4.8/5.00 GPA – third highest in the entire university.
Department Rank: 1/450
3 consecutive times awarded a “Golden Tuition Fee” (Full scholarship awarded to the student with highest GPA in the program–all semesters included).
Participated in some robotics events.
ASME student member.
2090 SAT – Math: 790, Critical Reading: 630, Writing: 670
SATII Math II: 800
SATII Physics: 800
31 ACT – Reading 25 
, English 30, Math 36, Science 34
111 Toefl – Reading 26, Listening 29, Speaking 28, Writing 28
My essays–which I believe were the main reason for my acceptance-- were mostly about how I believed transfering would help me get the tools necessary to come back to Colombia and make the difference needed for us to flourish as a nation. One creative essay talking about how I was able to get the best out of my parents’ divorce when I was a child.
I hope my post will encourage you, if you feel that your SAT/AP scores aren’t too impressive, to give it a try and be creative in your application!
