<p>Also, is it rare for Asians to receive one?</p>
<p>yeah asians never get them ever.</p>
<p>Duke sends likely letters?? what exactly are those?</p>
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<p>what kind of question is that?!</p>
<p>By the way I'm Asian, that's why I'm asking.</p>
<p>If you are getting a likely letter, you will receive it by the end of February.
Also if it helps at all, during my year, a large number of Asians received likely letters.</p>
<p>I know the Ivys send out likely letters, but was not aware that Duke did as well.</p>
<p>ah, i'm getting so nervous!! i expect the first likely letters to surface next monday maybe? the 16th? seems like it's usually around the 15th... GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!</p>
<p>Ok, I feel dumb. What exactly does a likely letter say?</p>
<p>that you're likely to be admitted.</p>
<p>If you don't get a likely letter, can you still get in? And if you DO get one, can you be rejected?</p>
<p>Likely letters are a mechanism elite schools use to counter the assiduous courting of highly qualified students and student/athletes by lesser but still very excellent institutions. They are a mechanism to subvert the bonding process between highly regarded students and such institutions.</p>
<p>Oh, ok. Thanks for clarifying!</p>
<p>Likely letters go out to approximately 350 people out of the 3,500 people they accept..if you don't get a likely letter, your chances are still pretty good of being accepted.
I don't know of anyone who got a likely letter and wasn't accepted but I imagine that if you do something to screw up really badly between the month you get the likely letter and when decisions officially come out that they wouldn't take you...</p>
<p>Oh, I hope I get one! People on the Stanford forum are saying that they have already received one, which seems a bit unlikely (hehe) to me, but I dunno. I am guessing Duke will start sending them next week! Did anyone else here get brochures in the mail about "Duke Students Taking Their Knowledge To The World" and "The Duke Graduate"? I've not read them yet because I just got them, but they seem interesting (and kind of strange....the first page says "The Duke Graduate: Where are you heading?". THey do realize they have not admitted me, right? haha. Very pretty photos on the covers, very appealing. </p>
<p>Anyone watch UNC v Duke either? It was good until NC pulled away....:(.</p>
<p>Did anyone get two thick packets from Duke with stuff...?
My dad is annoying me because he thinks I got accepted and I have to tell him decisions don't come out until April..</p>
<p>I got the packet with 2 large booklets and 1 tiny booklet. I never got the second packet. This a bad sign? And by the way what was in the second packet?</p>
<p>honestly, i don't think anyone should look much into the duke brochures/packets. lol it really most likely means nothing.</p>
<p>I know of someone who got the same brochures/packets I got from Duke who didn't get in.
It doesn't matter.</p>
<p>got the second packet today. uggh. they're torturing me!! maybe tomorrow it'll be a likely letter? ah.</p>