<p>I called the admissions office!</p>
<p>They told me that DukeUpclose was not happening this year, which I guess means no likely letters.</p>
<p>:-/</p>
<p>^ oh snap. i wonder why...? hm.
and we still have no confirmed decision day?</p>
<p>That was smart of you to call ddd. It is a shame that Duke has decided to forego this excellent recruitment vehicle. Older S truly enjoyed the Duke Up Close experience. The likely letters did come with the invitation to Duke Upclose , which provided free transportation to Duke for a weekend for about 300 applicants. You will notice that the Latino recruitment invite does not include paid transportation to Duke. Duke must be dealing with budgetary cuts due to the endowment shrinkage that all private colleges are experiencing. I would guess this save Duke a lot of money. Perhaps Duke will re-write its likely letters and still send them to the top students without the invitation to fly in. It appears the only candidates that will be provided a free trip to Duke will be those interviewing for the scholarships.</p>
<p>Wow, this is a great disappointment. We have all been waiting for these letters for a long time now. Hopefully they will still decide to send out likely letters without the free trip to Duke. Once again good luck to all. Hopefully we will all make it into Duke when decision day comes.</p>
<p>only for hispancs, not even invitations for the Black Student Alliance weekend...
w**?? i really wanted to get invited to and attend this weekend!!!
oh well!</p>
<p>I hear you. I mean, I understand if they don't have a weekend specifically for Native applicants (I heard only 4-5 enroll each year), but come on, what about the AAs?? That's so ODD.</p>
<p>My D got in ED; we have yet to receive the big envelope with all of the details. Just have the blue folder with the gold seal and the admission letter...</p>
<p>This is my second time around going through this; things worked out fine with D1 even though she was broken-hearted that she did not get into her first choice. Please believe that you just have to believe that whatever happens there is a plan for you. Hang in there everyone that is waiting for a decision and keep the faith.</p>
<p>My daughter got a likely letter today. We live in a neighboring state. The letter said they sent out 350 so check your snail mail boxes.</p>
<p>In the mail in Florida also. Letter is dated March 10. Very late in the season and sadly, no invite to Duke Up Close. It is not happening this year. Just the usual Blue Devil Days.</p>
<p>Our son got a likely letter today....We live on the West coast. This is our first child so we are new to the process. Are you saying all top schools send such letters?</p>
<p>Got my letter today, as well. This was after getting the Hispanic Recruitment letter.</p>
<p>Just wanted to confirm that they have been sent for those who are wondering.</p>
<p>travel family: Pretty much all elite schools use this tool, but Duke has always had an established program. Other elites send very very few and mostly to athletes or academic stars. Duke each year sends to the top 300-350 applicants and in past years this was tied to a free trip to visit Duke in the Duke Up Close weekend. If you read a little up in this thread, you will see that an applicant called duke and they are not flying the kids to Duke this year. My guess is the endowment crunch. So the only students getting a free trip to Duke are those being interviewed for the few merit scholarships offered there and they have all been invited already.</p>
<p>So if I can't afford to pay to go to Duke for Blue Devil Days I'm out of luck?</p>
<p>I do not know if they offer assistance to fly in for those who can establish financial need. Call the admissions person listed in your letter. But in the past, all those receiving the likely letter were flown in at Duke's expense for two night.</p>
<p>To the OP, I'm Asian and I got one.</p>
<p>It basically stated that they are going to offer a formal letter of admission later in the spring and it goes into stats (they send the letter to 350 out of the 24,000 applicants) so chances are still good for getting in without it seeing as how that is only 1% of applicants.</p>
<p>They also explain the Blue Devil Days and their scholarship process.</p>
<p>Does it help to be Indian-asian?</p>
<p>^definitely not.</p>
<p>What about ARABS???? Why don't we have our own recruitment weekend??? We're URMs too D:</p>
<p>^ and what about french? i want my week-end!!!!! i bet we'll be like 20 people at the best!!! a real minority week-end! yay!!</p>
<p>haha yes the french! even though being french isn't an ethnicity...</p>