<p>This makes me not even want to look at next week’s decisions. At least they were nice about rejecting me.</p>
<p>ananya–i have yahoo too and i got my email pretty early on…like 7 03 ish. </p>
<p>duke’s letter was definitely the nicest</p>
<p>Northwestern’s rejection letter was sooo not nice… it gave me the feeling that “I suck…I wasn’t worthy enough for NU” > they are probably right but they could have been nice like Duke >_></p>
<p>God it hurts, but there’s always poledancing :)</p>
<p>go nova tonight??? anyone???</p>
<p>Sorry to bust your bubble but thats practically last year letter only with the number of applicants changed. Not that im saying it matters.</p>
<p>I think my bubble has been sufficiently bursted by the fact that I was REJECTED.
I don’t care how nice/mean the letter was. Rejection is rejection, whether they claim they still love you or not.</p>
<p>Lucky Kelly, I can’t poedance (well unless I do it at a gay club, which I don’t think I would want to do, seeing as I’m not gay.)</p>
<p>I wagered five dollars on the Duke-Nova game tonight. I WANT TO LOSE THIS LINCOLN. GO NOVA. ■■■.</p>
<p>haha yeah during the season i was always rooting for duke now everyone i know is going nova. it’s awesome. well, as awesome it can feel for a reject haha</p>
<p>well they’re certainly not going to admit anyone named hellflame666… :D</p>
<p>YAAAAAAA go NOVA
I’m officially going there after being rejected to Duke</p>
<p>Ugh whatever. I wish i applied to Nova instead. Haha, not. I wasted enough $$. At least Berk wanted me today. Otherwise I really miiight have killed myself</p>
<p>So I inserted my comments about different parts of the letter in the letter in the <em>(__)</em>.
Its just what I think. Use the <em>(_______)</em> to locate these thoughts/comments.</p>
<p>March 26, 2009</p>
<p>first middle last (names)
address
city state zip code</p>
<p>Dear hellflame666:</p>
<p>It is with very real regret that I must tell you that we will not be able to offer you a place in the class entering Duke this fall. I realize that this is disappointing news; I want to assure you that we considered your candidacy carefully and that our decision was not an easy one. <em>(insert more BS here)</em>.</p>
<p>This was in many ways an extraordinary year for the admission process at Duke. We received almost 24,000 applications, the largest number in our history and nearly 3,500 more than last year. The applicant pool was one of the strongest academically we have ever had. As a result, in filling just 1,700 places in the first-year class the Admissions Committee faced a number of difficult decisions, and found itself not being able to admit students it might well have admitted just a year or two ago <em>(really, that was a pretty lame and insincere comment. i smell BS)</em>. After reviewing each application at least twice, it is clear to us that almost all of our applicants are outstanding young women and men, people fully capable of performing well in Duke’s classrooms and contributing to our community. Unfortunately, the sheer volume of applicants means that we can admit only a small percentage of the students we find appealing, a task made exceptionally difficult by the unusual strength and size of our applicant pool this year.</p>
<p>You may be asking what was lacking in your application; for most of our applicants the honest answer is nothing <em>(more BS)</em>. If you’re like most of the students who applied, you’ve put much effort into doing well in school, you made significant contributions in your extracurricular activities, and you worked hard to balance the many demands on your time. The Admissions Office staff and the Admissions Committee carefully and fully evaluated each application, finding it extremely challenging to distinguish among the many exceptional students who would flourish here. The decisions of the Admissions Committee are guided by our understanding of our applicants as individuals, and our sense of which students together, with their particular combination of interests, backgrounds, and experiences, approach our sense of the class that is most appropriate for Duke right now. We have no quotas by school, by state, by race or ethnic group <em>(liars)</em>, by gender, or by area of interest. Our decisions are ultimately based on our evaluation of the many factors that together suggest to us the best match between our applicants – individually and as a group – and Duke. In creating our class and choosing among the large number of outstanding candidates, we could select only some of the many applicants who would be wonderful Duke students and alumni. I can tell you that at one point or another every staff member remarked how difficult the selection process was this year, and how appealing this year’s applicants were.</p>
<p>You and your fellow applicants have exceptional academic and personal qualifications, and I truly regret that we could not offer you a place in the first-year class. I know that you will find an institution at which you will be happy; I know, too, that the school you choose will benefit from your presence. I wish you all the success I know you are capable of as you pursue your education further. <em>(blah, blah, blah. A+ for BS effort, F for sincerity)</em></p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Christoph Guttentag
Dean of Undergraduate Admissions</p>
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<p>Duke got owned tonight!!!</p>
<p>Go nova!!!</p>
<p>and who exactly wants to go to a school where the dean’s name is Guttentag?</p>
<p>sieg heil.</p>
<p>Rejected by duke.
but ACCEPTED by Northwestern! w00t!</p>
<p>this letter was sooo much nicer than Chicago’s, I’ll give em that.
Sucks though. First choice. I’m surprisingly not devastated though :)</p>
<p>Im completely crushed. Duke was my number one choice and I did not even consider it a reach (more like 50/50). Since it was my first rejection (I had a waitlist), I really cannot compare the rejection to that of most schools; however, I agree that they showed alot of sincerity and respect. </p>
<p>But as with most rejection letters, this is filled with a bunch of BS. First of all, I highly doubt they re-read all 23,000 applications. </p>
<p>Second, I hate how they mentioned the fact that they do not use quotas: “We have no quotas by school, by state, by race or ethnic group , by gender, or by area of interest.” </p>
<p>Of course, they do not have a set percentage of how many ___ they will accept, but by making that statement, they are promoting the idea that race, major, school, and state do not play a HUGE role in college admissions.</p>
<p>I was rejected by Duke. And I felt like crap for a day.</p>
<p>And then I got accepted to Williams.
And I no longer give a crap about Duke!</p>
<p>GO EPHS!!!</p>