<p>Does Duke admit students who apply to Pratt and Trinity separately?There are 3 other kids from my grade applying to Duke ED but all are applying to Pratt and I am applying to Trinity. Does that affect my admission chances?</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
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<p>It shouldn’t. Although comparisons may inevitably arise when students from the same school apply, particularly when they’re applying to the same school at Duke, there is not a quota on a per school basis and each applicant is judged individually. I would think since you’re the only one applying to Trinity, those comparisons won’t even unintentionally arise.</p>
<p>@bluedog: Very nicely said, bd (I sometimes wonder why this is a reoccurring question?). </p>
<p>Because no matter how many times admissions officers tell people there aren’t quotas by high school, the kids don’t believe it, and because a lot of GCs perpetuate the problem by telling their students how many kids from ABC HS “typically” go to a particular college. Never mind that the sample size is too small to draw valid inferences or that overall educational attainment and parental demographics of higher SES communities probably explain 80% of what turns out to be typical. Many of the GCs believe there’s a target number, so the kids do too. </p>
<p>I can recall an applicable bromide: " nothing is as frightening as ignorance in action."</p>