<p>ello! My twin sister and I will be applying to colleges next year and I have heard a lot of myths about twins. We both love Duke University, and I was wondering if anyone knew how they felt about admitting Twins? We would both apply Early Decision. I headr that DUke University in particular loves twins...but i don't want to get my hopes up/believe what they say.
Also, do you think we have a chance of getting in?</p>
<p>Background: Both have GPA around 4.2/4.3. By the time we graduate ,will have taken 7 and 8 credits of AP's, and both taken 12/13 credits of honors classes. We have high honors. All of the classes we took were the highest level offered at the time. We have won a few language awards for french, and have done Varsity swimming as a freshman, started a community service group raising $10,000, taken part in an additional community service group, been a part of Physics Club, Math Club, Women in Science Club, in charge of French Club, webmaster for french honors society, did a fundraiser of Haiti, singing at a charity event 2 years in a row, did a Harvard ELO Program, created a documentary on homelessness from our community service group (not finished yet, will be about 30-45 minutes long), and taken part in twelve or thirteen different theater shows as well as hope to direct one of our own next year. We are also in Math Honors Society, and we are in French Honors Society and National Honors Society. We have really good teacher recommendations and hope to go to the Advanced Studies Program at Saint Paul's this summer (a 5-week over the summer academic program and we're juniors right now). I have over 100 hours of community service so far with still a year left where i hope to get another 100, she has about 50. I also received a Tutor of the Week award for a national tutoring volunteer thing that I do for AP Calculus. Both college applications essays we had our teachers grade got A+s (which I know makes our school sound easy but it's not, we're one of the technology schools that everyone has their own macbook at.). We are very alike, but are also different in a lot of ways and choose different topics for our admissions essays. I know that Duke is very hard to get into and our chances aren't great, but I was just wondering if you thought we could get in or not. We would like to go together, and I've heard rumors about whether or not colleges like to accept or decline twins. I don't care about criticism, I just want the honest truth. Please let me know if you think we have a chance of getting in! :) Thanks to everyone who replies!</p>
<p>I was in the same position as you this year. I would recommend that you and your twin apply to two seperate schools for ED/EA. There is no advantage in applying to the same school as a twin. In fact, I believe a college is more inclined to deny admissions. It’d be easier to give disappointing news to one family than two seperate ones. However, the advantage of being a twin is to apply to two seperate schools. If either of you are accepted, and the other one applys RD, I think it would be harder for a college to justify denying a carbon copy of a student they already accepted. </p>
<p>My brother and I applied to two seperate schools during early round. I was accepted to mine, Duke. He is applying RD and I am willing to bet that me getting in will help at least a little bit during admissions.</p>
<p>I think this page explains it better:</p>
<p>[Elite-College</a> Admission for Twins - Ask The Dean](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/000266.htm]Elite-College”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/000266.htm)</p>
<p>If they both really like Duke, they should both definitely apply ED. You both seem like very well qualified applicants who have a relatively unique aspect to you. I think your chances look to be good, apply ED and see what happens.</p>
<p>I went to Duke – back in the Stone Age – and my roommate was a twin. Her twin sister lived one floor below us. They wanted the same school, and the same dorm, but drew the line at sharing a room! They had different areas of academic interest, but had many friends in common. I think it worked out well for all concerned. Good luck!</p>
<p>I agree with patriotsfan1; if Duke is still the top choice for you and your sister next year, there’s no reason not to apply ED. It would be silly to have each twin apply to a different school in order to “strategize,” if you both absolutely want to attend Duke and would decline other offers to do so. The achievements you listed indicate that both of you have a good shot at getting in, especially with the little extra boost in the ED round.</p>
<p>Thanks so much to all of you, you guys have really good insight! We’re only juniors, so we still have some time to decide what to do, but I guess we will both apply ED to Duke as long as it is our top school. We also like Cornell, os maybe if (when we visit) my twin likes it more, she’ll apply there. I guess we will just have to see which school is our favorite! Seriously, thought, thanks for the knowledge (:! Duke is my dream school, I want to get in so badly! I just hope my grades/activities/everything is enough! </p>
<p>and to the people who went/will go to Duke: so jealous! :)</p>