<p>O______O;--- Wow, I got one!! From PA.</p>
<p>Arrived in Oklahoma too! :) Congratulations everyone!</p>
<p>Got the likely letter in the mail today! It was dated 2/12.
I am looking forward to the trip to Duke, checking out Pratt and
more importantly meeting some lemurs in the primate center.</p>
<p>:)
Since some of you may be curious about my stats :)</p>
<p>College Class Year: 2012</p>
<p>ACADEMICS
High School: Top 100 US Public High Schools<br>
GPA: UW: 4.00 W: 4.80
Class Rank: top 5 students
AP [5's]: CALC BC, CHEM, PHY C MECH, ENG LANG, USH
SR YR AP: BIO, ENG LIT, FR LANG, PHY C E&M, G&P, STAT
SAT I: 2340 (CR 740)
SAT IIs: IIC: 800 CHEM: 760 BIO/M:760 USH: 790
OTHER: EPGY Computer Science, Math, Physics, English Courses</p>
<p>EC
Key ECs:Research, Running, Ultimate, Publishing; Author of Science Puzzle Book</p>
<p>Leadership positions: President Math Club, Editor-in-chief School
Magazine, President Chess club</p>
<p>Athletic Status: Non-varsity, 5K average 6:25 mile running pace </p>
<p>Volunteer/Service Work: Fund raising (~ 80 hours) through performances</p>
<p>HONORS AND AWARDS
Intel STS, Siemens, Bausch & Lomb, Intel ISEF *
*Multi-time AIME qualifier and school top scorer,
* AP Scholar with Distinction, Numerous[5] State/Reg Science Fair Awards,*
National Chess Championship (2nd Place), Numerous [12+] top student Course Awards </p>
<p>APP </p>
<p>Essays: Light tone+self depreciative humor (essentially my voice)
followed Geraldine Woods' and Harry Bauld's advice for college essay writing</p>
<p>Reccs: Probably one outstanding, one somewhat critical; The GCs recc would have been decent</p>
<p>Hooks: Sent in my Intel STS nomination update end of January</p>
<p>OTHER: Supplementary material of my performane on stage sent on DVD</p>
<p>Someone should start a chatroom so we can talk about how exciting this is. Is there a facebook group? Im too lazy to look.</p>
<p>EDIT: I'm in a chatroom called "DUKE12" if anyone wants to talk.</p>
<p>Likely letters for EA, ED, or RD? (Only applied RD to all schools so don't know when EA and ED decisions come out)</p>
<p>caffinefree826 - Haha, thanks for your confidence. I knew the mail hadnt come at the time though since we had put mail into it in the morning and the flag was still up, but it worked out in the end. Sorry you didnt get one. Good luck to you in march!</p>
<p>I didn't get one.</p>
<p>cjm, Early decisions came out a while ago. These likely letters are for RD</p>
<p>does anyone know what % of eventually admitted people get LLs?</p>
<p>Arwen, those stats are amazing by the way. you have so many uber-prestigious awards!</p>
<p>Did anyone from New York get a letter today?</p>
<p>Hey, I just got one!</p>
<p>(I live in Madison, WI btw)</p>
<p>did you guys apply to engineering or trinity?</p>
<p>Did you have to have an interview in order to get one??</p>
<p>does anyone know when bn duke/and the other scholarship finalists are published?</p>
<p>Arwen15, what an amazing set of accomplishments! Congratulations!</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone who got Likely Letters!
If you keep up whatever it is you are doing, you are most definitely in Duke.
I would encourage you to go to Up Close and see what sort of feeling you get for the school. I've heard mostly great things about Up Close. It helped many decide on Duke and even had a few reluctantly turn it down for HYPSM later on..</p>
<p>I applied for engineering. Is Up Close the thing only for likelies? I like how they are like only a small group of you 350 will be scholarship finalists haha.</p>
<p>Who else got letters today.... anyone besides these 5 or 6? any from NY?? and anyone who applied to Trinity?</p>
<p>yeah, did any of you liklies apply to Trinity?</p>
<p>well, it sounds like 350 ppl get likely letters from duke a year, and last year duke admitted 3770 students. therefore, only about 9.3% of duke admits get likely letters- meaning that if you don't get a likely letter, your chances are still not half bad (except that duke only accepts about 20%, so...)</p>
<p>still wish i had gotten one, though.</p>
<p>Got mine today (Cali)</p>
<p>did ALL of the letters come out today? seems like only 6-7 people on CC have confirmed getting one.</p>
<p>caffinefree thanks for the stats. those are somewhat consoling.</p>