<p>Does Duke defer most of its ED applicants?
Hypothetically, what kind of SAT scores (and yes, i do realize that SAT scores are not everything) would Duke outright reject in the ED round? I just need some kind of numerical benchmark. For instance, </p>
<p>Random Poster: they would probably reject you if you had 650V, 650M.</p>
<p>P.S. Were talking about white, unhooked, un-athletic, non-minority, no legacy applicants. Thanks. :)</p>
<p>I believe that Duke deferred 50% of ED applicants, accepted roughly 1/3, and therefore rejected 1/6 of applicants. I do not know about the SAT score thing, though. I had a 1370 SAT I (and a 33 ACT), but was deferred. I also fit your "criteria" for the post.</p>
<p>outright rejections in ED are not commonplace as seahorse pointed out, they mostly defer ya. But for that criteria u mentioned, if there r no significant circumstances that could offset a lower score, then I'd say <1300 = rejection</p>
<p>Yeah, ED rejections are pretty rare-- it makes more sense for them to defer you and see if you can get grades/scores up and just generally improve your application. Then again, if you're rocking an 1100 w/ no hook, mediocre ECs and mediocre grades, then a rejection wouldn't be surprising. </p>
<p>BigE-- I don't think they'd even reject a 650 V, 650 M in the ED round-- I'd imagine that as a deferral with little hopes in the RD round.</p>
<p>Actually, I know two people with 3.8+ GPAs and 1450+ SATs who were rejected early decision to DUke (and then got into schools like Emory, Vanderbilt, Cornell, and Mich) so I don't think you have to be that bad a student to be rejected--you just have to show that you don't have enough potential to be looked at again in April.</p>