<p>How did I get into UChicago and Duke...and get rejected by Berkeley?
I'm from Cali...</p>
<p>Has something similar happened to any of you? Just asking out of curiousityy :]</p>
<p>haha i got into Northwestern, WashU, and Duke
but rejected from cal and ucla in state too</p>
<p>It’s all a crapshoot, you know. I know Berkeley decisions this year was really weird.</p>
<p>I got into UChicago but got into Berkely as a Spring Admit, and then rejected from Duke.</p>
<p>Pretty weird huh?</p>
<p>Yeah I think at this level, college admissions are really arbitrary…
I got into UNC-CH out of state, UChicago, and Northwestern, but waitlisted at Duke. I’m really trying not to let this affect how I feel about the Ivies - honestly, it doesn’t mean much at this point. Everything’s a crapshoot.</p>
<p>…why would this affect your feelings about the ivies?</p>
<p>Just that getting waitlisted at Duke isn’t really a good sign since I applied to a couple of Ivies as well. Sorry- in retrospect, that was confusing.</p>
<p>Haha, the same thing is happening to me.
I got into Columbia(LL) and Stanford, while both are need-aware for internationals and I needed a great amount of FA. However, I was waitlisted at Duke.
Not that I care much after those acceptances, but it felt weird :P</p>
<p>UChicago received only 19,306 applicants and Northwestern received 21,839. I’m not sure about their acceptance rates this year, but I know that last year UChicago’s was around 27.5% and Northwestern around 26.2%. </p>
<p>Duke received around 27,000 applicants, and their acceptance rate this year is only 14.8%!!</p>
<p>haha i got waitlisted at washu, northwestern, and u chicago</p>
<p>but accepted from duke. 
i love duke…</p>
<p>Duke is an amazing school, kudos to everyone who was lucky enough to get in.</p>
<p>Here are some more stats from The Chronicle (Duke’s online Newspaper)</p>
<p>"3,372 accepted RD from 24,730 applications (excluding deferred ED) = 13.6% acceptance rate
602 accepted ED from 2,040 applications = 29.5% acceptance rate</p>
<p>Overall: 3974 accepted/26770 applications = 14.8% acceptance rate</p>
<p>Targeting class of 1705, down from last year’s 1720 </p>
<p>Anticipated yield = 1705/3974 = 43%</p>
<p>3059 accepted to Trinity, 913 accepted to Pratt."</p>
<p>What’s going to happen if a more people than they expected end up choosing Duke? Are they going to have to expand the school or something?</p>
<p>Actually it’s very rare that more people than expected choose the school.
In nearly all cases, the actual yield is lower than the anticipated yield.(In which case, the waitlist comes into play)</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say yield is lower than anticipated in nearly all cases. Duke over-enrolled recently (last year or maybe two years ago, I don’t recall) but had to dip into the waitlist by almost 200 another year. So it actually swings dramatically from year to year.</p>
<p>College admissions really are so arbitrary. Admitted at Duke, RPI and UVA but wait listed at Wash U. Waiting on two Ivies. At this point, I’m okay with wait listed or rejection since I do have choices that are decent.</p>
<p>got in WashU and Duke (LL) but flat out rejected at UChicago (I rushed and submitted my app. late though so idk… it’s w/e i guess)</p>
<p>I got into wash u, georgetown, bc’s honors program, notre dame’s honors program, and a few more…then just got rejected by duke. At this level, college admissions are so random, the duke rejection doesn’t really upset me, im just happy things have gone this well so far…all it does is make me a little more apprehensive about the ivies on thursday</p>
<p>So, what is the next step now that we’re waitlisted at Duke. Do we just wait? That’s it?</p>
<p>I was rejected at Georgetown, Northwestern, U of Chicago, and Stanford. Got waitlisted at Carnegie Mellon. Then wham! Accepted at Duke.</p>
<p>Got waitlisted at vandy then accepted to duke…i laugh at vanderbilt haha duke is ten times better</p>
<p>i should add though that vandy is attempting to severely cut down their 80% caucasian enrollment this year, so it sort of makes sense.</p>