<p>Just so everyone knows, if you receive an invitation to Duke Up Close you are not a finalist for a scholarship, but you should be honored just the same (as they told me over the phone lol).</p>
<p>Rosh420, do u happen to be african american? i got one but im not, so im wondering if its for anyone or only african-americans? anyone else get it thats not?</p>
<p>Rosh420 and nmehta4, check out this thread.</p>
<p>See post #12 on that thread for the same thing last year.</p>
<p>Shrinkrap, I don't understand why you've told me to visit that thread??</p>
<p>Because it sound like you got the "Minority Student Likely Letter" and BSAI invite, and I think you will have much in common with folks who post there. I guess I also feel if folks who got this letter post there, it serves as a useful thread in the future. There are links there to two years worth of recipients, and it's interesting ti see how things turned out.</p>
<p>Oh ok. I did get the minority student likely letter. I didn't know there were factions though...</p>
<p>Hmmm....factions don't sound good</p>
<p>lol. .</p>
<p>are u black?</p>
<p>Yes, I am.</p>
<p>me dos ...10char</p>
<p>:) Duke knows how to make someone feel happy....first the likely letter,
now this......</p>
<p>Guess there must be a bunch of folks who have heard just like me that
they are ABDuke finalists....Here is a part of what I recived on e-mail....</p>
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<p>Congratulations! </p>
<p>It gives me great pleasure to inform you that, from over 20,000 applicants for admission to Duke University, you have been accepted to join the class of 2012. Better yet, you are one of only forty-two students selected as finalists for our prestigious Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship.</p>
<p>The A.B. Duke Scholarship, Duke's flagship merit award, covers 100% of tuition, mandatory fees, and room and board for four years (eight semesters), a six-week summer program at Oxford University, and access to ABD-specific research/special project funding. The program is designed to support and enrich your intellectual ambitions, your individual talents, and your particular interests-from mathematical research to global health, from theater to public policy, from philosophy to genetics, and so much else. ............and so on............
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<p>arwen15, congrats!!! Good luck and have fun with you scholarship weekend interview and hope you become one of those 10-15 people among the 42 who actually win it.</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity. You do qualify for need-based, too, right? How much difference would ABD really make (in terms of numbers in money, not the honor part)? </p>
<p>I somehow felt that even someone is really outstanding, but if your parents can afford, Duke may only give you likelier letter, but you still end up paying anyway. It is just a little theory.</p>
<p>Thank you Susan4 :) I actually know for a fact financial status has
not been factored into the merit award since the financial aid office
has been sending e-mails in parallel asking for stuff and are quite unaware I
have a likely letter. Their letters usually start like this:</p>
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"...We are in the process of reviewing your application for financial aid.<br>
Our review in no way indicates or anticipates any admissions decision.
We are simply trying to ensure that we will have all the necessary
information in your file to perform the needs analysis should you be
admitted to Duke University...etc...
;)and some cool question like ....we want to know how come
you are looking to adopt lemurs given that....:p
...you cannot afford a pizza every week ;)</p>
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<p>For me the difference would be ~$3,000 to $6,000 per year (ABD V Need-based) that I
would not be paying - the difference betwee a free ride and
paying basically plus of course the summer at Oxford and ~upto $5K in
research allocation?</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>so...can someone tell me for a fact...are all the duke likely letters out...</p>
<p>arwen15, what are your stats?</p>
<p>mahavir10, go to page 6, post #83 of this thread. arwen15 is outstanding.</p>
<p>hey, congrats Arwen!!!</p>
<p>It looks like there are likely letters,which are different scholarship letters, which are different from finalist letters, which are different from Duke Up Close letters(what is an Up Close letter?). Do they all go to the same 350? Can anyone please clarify.......</p>
<p>Ok so the 350 likely letter people get likely letters. Of them some are chosen for a scholarship and so they get finalist letters to go interview. The other likely letter people get invitations to Close Up, a special event just for people with likely letters to get to visit Duke. The scholarship finalist likely letter people get to see Duke anyway because they are going for interviews.</p>