<p>If four kids from my school applied to Duke (I'm applying to Trinity and the three others to Pratt) will this affect my chances as much if the other three were applying to Trinity? Is there any difference in the admissions office between applicants to Trinity and applicants to Pratt?</p>
<p>Also, does Duke normally take more than one or two people from each school? (I'm from PA, a fairly good public school, but definitely not a feeder school for Duke.)</p>
<p>Wow too complicated for me. I must be reading too much.</p>
<p>Firstly, yes admissions to each school are seperate. For Pratt they look specifically for math and science achievement and things that relate to engineering. I hear that standardized testing is weighted more heavily for Pratt. I would also assume it's easier for a girl to get into Pratt as only 25% of Pratt students are female and everyone always wants more female engineers. Trinity I would think is more like your standard liberal arts or university admissions criteria.</p>
<p>Also yes Duke accepts more than one student from each school. My school has about 1000 students in all 4 grades and is public and in MA, and 3 of us applied ED to Duke and all 3 of us got in.</p>
<p>haha where in mA, im from melrose</p>
<p>If all the people who have applied are qualified Duke will accept them all. My school has sent 2 people to Duke in it's entire history (of course it is a relatively new school), and last year 3 students were accepted RD and I was deferred ED/accepted RD. Don't even worry about that. You're not competing with people from your school for 1 spot.</p>