<p>So...I didn't submit my Duke supplement by the December 10 deadline and thus I won't be having an interview. Will this hurt me at all? I know for some schools like Johns Hopkins, the interview has no effect on admissions at all. But other schools like MIT, it's practically required if you want to have any chance of being accepted. What is the policy for Duke?</p>
<p>While a good interview can potentially help your application, it normally can’t sway your decision in either direction. It won’t hurt if you don’t have an interview, it just won’t help you either. </p>
<p>Also, depending on how many alumni are in your area, you may still get an interview even if you didn’t submit your app before the priority deadline. I applied ED and submitted my app on Nov 1, but still got an interview.</p>
<p>Lacking an interview means you just miss the opportunity for an extra thumbs up on your application. It’s really nothing to get worked up about if your application is strong enough already. It also depends on the person, depending on whether you shine at interview or not.</p>
<p>do you guys know what fraction of the applicants have the interview?</p>
<p>I couldn’t find an exact percentage, but it says that “the majority of applicants find it possible to have an interview in their home region” on this page:
[Duke</a> University Admissions: How to Apply](<a href=“http://admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/apply_interviews.html]Duke”>http://admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/apply_interviews.html)</p>
<p>i never got an interview and i’m in a big city in-state (ie tons of alums). don’t remember if i submitted by that deadline…but i was pretty anal about the college search so i probably did. anyway i’m currently wearing my duke class of 2014 t-shirt, so that should tell you how the lack of interview went for me.</p>
<p>^Haha but you submitted it by the deadline so it wasn’t your fault at all. I just hope the admissions officers won’t view negatively the fact that I failed to submit it by the deadline. :/</p>
<p>Oh and also is it true that it’s easier to get into Pratt as a girl?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t really worry about the interview…for ED I submitted my application in time, but was not offered an interview. I ended up sending in an additional letter of recommendation in lieu of an interview. I was accepted regardless. Goodluck.</p>
<p>hey, I went back and re-read what Duke requires you to submit before December 10th to get that regional interview, and it said you could submit the Duke Supplement OR your portion of the Common App (AP 1- AP 5 including your essay response on the Common App itself…) before December 10th. I believe that your post revolved around submitting the Duke Supplement. Did you get the Common App ‘application’ in on or before December 10th? If so, you’re golden to get an interview based on that I’d think. I do think it’s important to get one if at all possible; I think that any little thing that can go your way should be added in, and clearly the interview is of some some value or Duke wouldn’t be doing them! </p>
<p>Which leads me to what I’ve been gleaning recently: I think Duke puts a tremendous amount of weight and focus on the ‘why Duke’ essay. If you think about it, maybe 1000 kids who apply to Duke can get admitted anywhere, maybe 1000 kids applied simply because Duke is cool and it has a great basketball team and all that, but essentially, the middle 27,000 applicants all look virtually the same, really, when it comes down to it. So I think Duke looks for some really specific information in that essay to help differentiate who makes it and who doesn’t. I just don’t see a lot of difference in most people within that pool, and that goes for test scores (let’s face it, there is little difference between a 2100 sat score and a 2200 test score in the grand scheme of it all) and GPA/class rank. We’re all super students and can do the work basically anywhere out there. </p>
<p>the kitesurfer.</p>
<p>To be clear, RD applicants (who submitted before Dec 10) haven’t been contacted for interviews yet, right?</p>
<p>I know several RD applicants who have already been contacted for interviews.</p>
<p>I visited this thread to determine what, if anything, the interview means for a Duke Applicant. It would seem that the consensus is that it certainly could be helpful. My daughter applied Regular decision in December and has her interview scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.</p>
<p>drewski94: i applied RD and was contacted for my interview yesterday, i would guess you will be soon</p>
<p>I applied on December 31st (both the supplement and the common app), and I have an interview tomorrow. I don’t think that they’re very strict about having the app in by December 10th.</p>
<p>Applied late November and no word on interview. I called and they said it all depends on your region.</p>
<p>I applied the day before the Jan 1st RD deadline and an alumni contacted me for an interview today. I wasn’t even close to the Dec. 10th deadline and still got the interview so you can certainly get one. If you’re not offered an interview (because there not be an alumnus in your area) don’t worry. There’s no way it can harm you. But it is advised to take an offered interview because it can help your app.</p>
<p>Question…if someone is deferred from the ED pool, so their application was in prior to the deadlines for the RD applicants to get interviews…are the deferred people considered for interviews during the RD process automatically, or would that be a question best posed to the regional admissions rep?</p>
<p>^ Deferred ED applicants were already considered for interviews during the ED round. If they didn’t get an interview then, I feel as though it’d be unlikely for them to get an interview now (assuming that they do, in fact, get “reconsidered”).</p>
<p>If there weren’t enough alumni in the area to interview the ED applicants, logically it seems it’d be even more difficult to accommodate all the RD applicants, unless there were fewer applicants or more alumni.</p>
<p>amphoteric, the ED application was in before the cut-off for RD’s to be considered for an interview, but was not in prior to the deadline for the EDs to be considered for an interview. </p>
<p>Of course, goodness knows how much of a percentage of Duke alumni actually are in our area, that would play a part in it as well.</p>
<p>spacecadet, I may be misunderstanding your question, but I was under the impression that ED applicants who submitted their applications after the ED priority deadline still received interviews if there were enough alumni in their area. For example, I applied ED and submitted my app on Nov 1, but was still contacted for an interview since I live near a major city with plenty of alumni. If there were enough alumni, deferred applicants who submitted after the priority deadline likely still received interviews, therefore taking them out of reconsideration in the RD round. </p>
<p>By no means am I sure of the above, so I would still call the admissions office and ask. Best of luck!</p>