Overall Acceptance Rate?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Duke University
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<p>The rate is quite low, but not THAT bad.</p>

<p>Last year, Duke accepted 3400+ students. This year shouldn't be way off of that mark.</p>

<p>Let's assume 3400 acceptances. Minus the 500+ ED acceptances, we are left with 2800, a fairly conservative estimate.</p>

<p>2800/22000* = 12.7% for regular decision. OVERALL acceptance rate, including ED, would be
around 14.8% (3400/23000).
*I used 22k instead of 23k because you have to account for the EDs who either got rejected or accepted, because they are no longer in the regular pool.</p>

<p>But it would be more accurate to do the numbers with the actual school (Trinity vs. Pratt).
I can't seem to find recent numbers for the individual schools...</p>

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<p>^^^^^^ i did account for the ED kids. The total pool is 24,000!</p>

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<p>....damn it. :( :(</p>

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HYPS are expecting RD rates of ~6%.

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<p>Is this correct? Last year was around 9%....</p>

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<p>^stanford and yale are expecting around a six percent acceptance rate. since harvard and princeton got rid of EA/ED, i think they are expecting a little higher (but not by much. harvard is ~7% ...LOL. BIG difference, eh?)</p>

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<p>lol Harvard's last year's acceptance rate was 7.1%... lovely.</p>

<p>So yea, ~6% for HYPS sounds about right.</p>

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If Duke wins the NCAA tournament, I don't think it will be taking too many people off the waitlist this year..

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<p>You're right, the Duke NCAA factor mainly affects the waiting list. If Duke thinks that an NCAA Championship will affect yield, it can't adjust the number of RD's, because Duke won't know what will happen. The Sweet 16 games are on March 26, an hour after the decisions are released. And its a long way from Sweet 16 to an NCAA Championship. </p>

<p>• East Regional
March 26, 28, 2009
TD Banknorth Garden (Boston)</p>

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<p>Yeah, the 9% Harvard Admissions rate was 2 years ago (2007). HYPS have been in single digits for a while now :(</p>

<p>That's why it's not surprising to me at all to see a place as highly ranked as Duke with 10-12%</p>

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<p>Most people in my pool have Minnesota pulling the upset over Texas, but this is Big 10 country (WI) so take that with a grain of salt.</p>

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<p>No way is Minnesota beating Texas. Everyone in my pool have texas beating Duke in the second round. Will a championship really increase yield that much? I don't think the applicants who go to HYPSetc. over Duke would make their decisions based on bball</p>

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<p>go texas! wootwoot! :)
i'm in houston, and even though i don't follow sports too much, i always root for the home team!! :)</p>

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<p>Don't the 23,000 applications include the ED applicants as well though??</p>

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<p>if you look at duke's class of 2012 profile and do some math: (<a href="https://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2012profile.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/who_2012profile.html&lt;/a&gt;) they accepted 4202 out of 20400 apps, or ~21% overall. By school you get about 19% for Trinity and 30% for Pratt.</p>

<p>Now assume this year with 23,000 applicants and similar proportional increases in both Trinity and Pratt applicants they admit the exact number of people, and that would give an overall admit rate of 18%, with 17% for Trinity and 26% for Pratt. And if you're just looking at RD then it would be about 17% overall, 16% for Trinity, and 25% for Pratt. So they'll still have admit rates in the high teens as opposed to single digits...</p>

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<p>As Duke's yield will probably decline (at least slightly), I see the admittance rate falling somewhere between 19-21%.</p>

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<p>There were over 24,000 applicants according to a letter my son received.</p>

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<p>I am sure am glad I applied ED. I wonder why they take such a high percentgae of ED applicants?</p>

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<p>Because you are contractually obligated to attend Duke. 100% yield (AKA 1 out of 1 enrolls) versus 40% (2 out of 5 enroll).</p>

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<p>What's up with trying to up yield anyway? I mean, can't they just accept more if yield's too low?</p>

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<p>^yield plays into rankings, and so naturally every college is worried about it as it can affect their image (and therefore money, etcetc)</p>

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<p>then how come they don't just increase the amount of ED slots/acceptances?</p>

<p>i already had a feeling it had something to do with rankings. so there aren't other reasons for wanting to increase yield?</p>