Duke University (2024-2025)

[tall plaza]

ngl im fine with another week cuz ill be out of school

no extra stress

[unreal summit]

i think it can still be thursdya lol

theyve released it one day before like someone said

[tall plaza]

yeah 3 days till and shutting down checklist seems absurd

watch the ig post come out tomorrow

[unreal summit]

what sources lol no one knows anything besides speculation

u dont know anything lol

everyone is just guessing

unless you acutally have some concerete proof im gonna say ur guessing like the rest of us

I think thats a really fair assumption to come to

hopefully ur right lol

i hope it comes on thursday

maybe ur right who knows I just know I dont

upenn is delayed to next week apparently since on their website they say they alert 1 week ahead

of decisions

so maybe duke too

ye i

hopefully ur right

i hate waitingf

[buoyant drum]

harvard came out the same day as duke last year

which would be the 12th this year

[pallid fern]

Yeah

Every year could be different

I still think it'll be the 12th

We'll see in a few days lol

[lofty pelican]

Comes out same day or a day after for the last ten years

[buoyant drum]

yeah

[pallid fern]

Since Harvard is releasing on the 12th Duke should too

I'm still betting on the 12th

I've been on Instagram religiously lately waiting for the Duke announcement 😭

Are they gonna send an email too?

All I know for sure is that they definitely do it on Instagram

2019 they announced it on Instagram the day of x_x

Same with 2018 and 2017

No posts before that

So looks like the trend is shifting away from announcing it the day of

Last year they did it on Tuesday

So there's a chance they'll do it tomorrow

I'll start worrying if they don't announce by Wednesday afternoon lol

But again at the very latest it'll be the 15th

[lofty pelican]

they email u

[pallid fern]

Anyone want to volunteer to call them and ask lol

I see Penn ED people freaking out too

On Reddit

[unreal summit]

penn is more weird tho

since they specificall mention releasing 1 week ahead

[quartz bridge]

we’ll find out on wednesday regardless

on that webinar they’ll let the counselors know when they’re releasing decisions

[tall plaza]

im not trusting emails cuz i got my cofc email 4 days after my decision

[tall plaza]

also these are all thursdays

[pallid fern]

Most of those are

Potentially all

Idk

[harsh heath]

seems like if it were 12th they woudlve announced already

one of my firneds who knows someone close to Duke said it would be this week

no clue how reliable that source is but i assumed it was gonna be 12th

[stoic stratus]

friday the 13th 😔

[pallid fern]

I'm still betting on the 12th lol

[quartz bridge]

if i had to bet money i'd say it'll be next week

not because of the email or anything but because of the application checklist

once that goes its countdown time

[vocal harness]

plus the deadline was 3 days later this year…

so it makes sense for decisions to be later too

[harsh heath]

anyone got mail saying it was supposed to come out by the 15th?

[quartz bridge]

it was in the application pamplet they gave on tours

it says ed decisions would be released by the 15th but dates like that are always subjected to change

esp cause those pamphlets were created over the summer

[harsh heath]

oh hm

Thanks

[somber laurel]

Did anyone else get an email that they will be invited to a group interview for Robertson within the next week?

[pallid fern]

Yeah I did

It scared the hell out of me cause I thought it was my decision lol

[somber laurel]

Same I thought it was a rejection lol

[dusky orbit]

Did anyone else get the email to schedule the Robertson group interview? Has anyone scheduled it yet bc for me it says to try again in a few hours since they're adjusting the availability

[pallid fern]

I haven't gotten it yet ;-;

It says it'll be released on a rolling basis and I submitted like a few hours before the deadline so I'll probably get it pretty late

And honestly I'll probably be rejected lol

I screwed up in the interviews so much

[forest cradle]

yo robertson?

when did u guys apply for it

[pallid fern]

Like Oct 15 a few hours before the deadline lol

My parents don't even know I applied lol

idk if I'm gonna tell them if I get in semifinalist

Or if I'll wait until I get the final final decision

Either way I still highly doubt I'll get semifinalist so whatever

[forest cradle]

deadline was november 15 i thought

my parnet dont even know what robertson is lmao

[forest cradle]

u r a semifinalist tho no?

people interviewed are semifinalists i thought

application dedline was november 15 i thought

[pallid fern]

The early deadline was Oct 15

People who submitted by then get decisions soon

[pallid fern]

Idk they haven't told me yet

[pallid fern]

I meant the asynchronous interviews in the original application

[forest cradle]

OHHHHHH

bismallah

was scared and disappointed in myself

[pallid fern]

Yeah dw people who submitted after that deadline (but before Nov 15) will get their decisions in the spring

[forest cradle]

bro vandy scholarship portal still open LOL

i could submit for the other 2 now

i did the cornelius vandy on dec 5 but not the other 2 yet

they said it would be open for a bit after deadline but damn this long lowkey crazy

[somber laurel]

I got declined from Robertson

Which is confusing because I got the email about participating in the interviews earlier today

[pallid fern]

Everyone gets that email I think

[pallid fern]

I'm sorry

[somber laurel]

Ah alright

[pallid fern]

There'll be plenty of other opportunities

[somber laurel]

It’s okay, I didn’t really want to go to Duke, but it does make me nervous for college decisions and other scholarships

So far I’ve only been declined from other programs too

[pallid fern]

Robertson is extremely competitive so it definitely doesn't take you out of the running for other stuff

[somber laurel]

Except one that I could only use in my state

[somber laurel]

Yeah

[pallid fern]

I think I'm driving myself crazy checking my emails for Robertson

Can I ask when you submitted your application?

[pallid fern]

That's still good though

State schools are often underrated

[somber laurel]

Well I’m only applying to one in-state

[somber laurel]

I think it was in October?

Before October 15 I believe because I wanted to hear back earlier

[pallid fern]

Still it'll be a good choice

[pallid fern]

Makes sense

I applied on Oct 15 lol

[somber laurel]

Ohh, I feel like they should still count you for early

Did you get the other email?

[pallid fern]

Yeah I am early

But it might take until dec 15 to get my decision

[frail sluice]

istg i want my decision rn

[somber laurel]

Well that’s still pretty soon

I’m glad I know though, it makes me consider Duke a lot less

[frail sluice]

also why arent they annoucning it like i cant stop ranting

[somber laurel]

Well I still have to see how my EA results look

[pallid fern]

Yeah same

[somber laurel]

I got mine today, maybe it’s by region?

[pallid fern]

Yeah it's good to know early

[somber laurel]

I’m in Ohio for context

[pallid fern]

I think they're talking about Duke decisions lol

Not Robertson

[somber laurel]

Ohhhh okay

[frail sluice]

im intl so thats that too

[somber laurel]

When does Duke release their decision?

[frail sluice]

ya

[somber laurel]

I haven’t applied yet, it just depends on whether my EA goes well

[frail sluice]

what majors do you wanna do undergad in tho

[somber laurel]

Political Science

So Yale is my number one, I hear about them next week

[frail sluice]

hopefully you get in

[crimson mortar]

Omg (def have not been just lurking duke lmao)

[somber laurel]

Thanks!

[somber laurel]

Oh, hey lol

One week from today

[pallid fern]

Not sure, they haven't announced it

[crimson mortar]

I think I lurk duke more than I lurk Yale ngl

[pallid fern]

But a lot are speculating 12th

[somber laurel]

I’m so nervous I kept waking up in the middle of the night thinking about it

[opal tendon]

anyone ED 'ed to Pratt for Engg here?

[somber laurel]

But it is what it is I guess

[pallid fern]

Cause we're better lol

[somber laurel]

I’ve been hearing that for a lot of schools

I think Johns Hopkins is the 12th, right?

[pallid fern]

I think so

!jhu

[pallid fern]

Gl!

[somber laurel]

I would apply there but I don’t want to live in Baltimore

[somber laurel]

Thanks!

[crimson mortar]

Help 😭

[pallid fern]

LOL same reasoning my friend has

[somber laurel]

The Yale chat has seen a lot of doom recently

[pallid fern]

She used to be premed (switched to business) and even though JHU is THE premed school she refused to apply there cause Baltimore

[pallid fern]

What doom?

[somber laurel]

About decisions

[eternal mauve]

jhu's environment is also something

[somber laurel]

Alright I’m gonna go do my AP Art History the Robertson email distracted me

[pallid fern]

Fair

We're freaking out here too lol

[pallid fern]

Gl!

[pallid fern]

Yeah definitely

Duke for the win imo lol

[crimson mortar]

Yeah it is not as fun to lurk

[cursive ferry]

My HS counselor just confirmed that Duke decisions are next week not this week!!!

[pallid fern]

NOOOOOO

NO

NO

NO

NO

NO

[pallid fern]

did they say which day?

[cursive ferry]

No - they don’t know yet

[fallow otter]

are you deadass

how does he know

[pallid fern]

I thought the counselors don't know until wednesday??

I'm actually going to cry

UGH

I CAN'T WAIT ANYMORE

plus it was my excuse for procrastinating on RD apps even more ;-;

[tame viper]

damn

[crimson mortar]

Pls start working on those asap

Sincerely someone who was literally writing apps at Christmas dinner

[pallid fern]

I have like some done

And I can probably finish next week if I grind

But I'm lazy ;-;

plus I got finals to study for

[tame viper]

i need to but i’m so checked out

[sly stream]

my counselor just confirmed that they won’t know anything until tomorrow’s meeting

[pallid fern]

same 😭

I need someonen to keep me accountable

[pallid fern]

if you find out any info please please please please tell me I'm begging you

[sly stream]

She’s gonna tell me what they say so we’ll see tm 🙏

[pallid fern]

fingers crossed for results released on thursday I will cry if I have to wait even longer

[cursive ferry]

Please keep all of us posted. I am hoping my counselor is wrong 😉

[pallid fern]

in the meanwhile I guess this is my sign to start rd apps ;-;

tbh I'm not sure what link you clicked but you'll be fine lol

I've been logging onto the normal portal daily lately

[regal lark]

😭

yeah it was just the one on their class of 28 accepted page

[crimson mortar]

You’re fine

[regal lark]

also did ur guys’ interviewers know ur major and other specifics?

[pallid fern]

I had to tell her

She started with a quick tell me about yourself so I just told her all the basics

[regal lark]

I think we had a long conversation about this already and like how we got the interview really late 😭

[regal lark]

ah cool

[pallid fern]

When's your interview?

[regal lark]

mine was a while back

this is for ed not robertson if that’s what ur asking

[pallid fern]

ooh nvm I thought you were the one who got it really late lol

[pallid fern]

yeah

[regal lark]

i think i talked about it that day and then got it

[pallid fern]

lol hopefully you get in!

[regal lark]

😭

i wish u the best as well

i’m not very hopeful

[pallid fern]

honestly same I just wrote two supps for Rice + Yale

very proud of myself lol

All I had to do was change a few words

Butttt still progress

[regal lark]

yes that’s good I just wonder if they took longer to give me an interview cause i submitted an optional rec

but i’m sure a lot of other people do as well

[pallid fern]

I submitted one too

I submitted two optional recs lol

[regal lark]

oh that’s interesting

[pallid fern]

I submitted one through common app, and my school counselor submitted the other for me

[regal lark]

i think mostly people don’t so they likely prioritize the ones without one for an interview

[pallid fern]

maybe I'm not sure

I got my interview request pretty on time though

[regal lark]

anyway i got really lucky and my guy had a similar background to me but he had mentioned it was a late appointment

[pallid fern]

Like early-mid november and I had the actual interview mid-late nov

[regal lark]

yeah i think around the same for me

[pallid fern]

oh that's nice

My interviewer was super nice but I didn't have that "omg she loved me" vibe

Then again over the years I've done a lot of interviews and I've only gotten that feeling from one interview, the others were all kinda meh

at least it didn't go badly lol

[regal lark]

i’m sure it’ll be fine yeah

i don’t think it weighs much anyway

[pallid fern]

Yeah from what I've heard unless you do something actually terrible, the interview doesn't matter much

on the reddit I think I saw someone say that someone they know thought it would be a good idea to belittle the interviewer so the uni ended up contacting their school counselor x_x

[regal lark]

oh damn

so i mean they at least look at it then 😭

[pallid fern]

no way the duke instagram posted the RD deadline date and I got so excited thinking it was the ED notification date 😭

[regal lark]

all me delusional but i think they’ll release the date tn

if they have posted something on insta at least they’re working on that stuff 😭

[harsh heath]

How did they find out already? Inside info?

[crimson mortar]

Can confirm I flopped my Duke interview so hard

[pallid fern]

hopefully

a few years ago they released the date right before the decisions

As in the day of/the day before

[harsh heath]

The ig post is so bait

Makes me think they know people are expecting one

But they can’t post that it’s out this week

[pallid fern]

or maybe they just want to watch us suffer 😭

[regal lark]

they definitely are done with looking over everything

[pallid fern]

yeah there's no way they aren't done

At this point it's just admin stuff

[harsh heath]

They actually toying with us

So messed up

[narrow raft]

That was just rough. Totally toying!

[drowsy torrent]

bum

[narrow raft]

What time is the meeting tomorrow? I forgot to ask when she told me today

Huge congrats if u got the Robertson interview btw didn’t apply but that has to be a good sign?

[quartz bridge]

pretty sure that was me. i ended up getting my interview a couple days after you😭

and the insta dates aren’t reliable. last year they emailed a couple days before the date was posted on insta

it’s pretty clear it’s not coming out this week atp

[cinder berry]

im not eding to duke but stay strong duke people id hate to still be wondering about the date rn 😭🙏

[narrow raft]

Fair. I need to be so realistic atp. Need to adjust my brain for not-Thursday

[harsh heath]

Anyone know what time the counselor meeting is?

And what they talk about

[pallid fern]

Tomorrow, but not sure what time

I would assume before 4 pm EST though

[dusty ibex]

Has anyone received any information from Duke on which date ED comes out

[dapper willow]

!whoknows

[flat junco]

Who knows!

We don’t know when the decision date for the school(s) you specified are. If you’d like to be notified as soon as we find out, here’s what you can do:

• Check our website’s decision dates calendar
• Keep an eye on the #📆-decision-dates channel
• Join any school you’re applying to’s #1050620654485000213 so you receive pings about their decision dates

[narrow raft]

Think is around noon since my counselor rescheduled our group meeting so she could watch.

Think they go over the numbers, and new data teens, etc. also the date

[pallid fern]

If you get any info from your counselor please tell us 😭

[untold flume]

so it’s possible it won’t be this week????

[narrow raft]

Ofc

[untold flume]

i can’t do this waiting anymore 😭

[dapper solar]

Alright

[vocal harness]

Monday 💀💀

[dapper solar]

So it’s settled

[azure sun]

Monday :)

[tame viper]

yay:3

[drowsy bolt]

typeshit

[unreal summit]

lol

[azure sun]

Duke Early Decision comes out Monday, December 16th, at 7pm EST.
This is <t:1734393600:R>.

[quartz bridge]

yuppp

next week mondayu

!duke

[unreal summit]

ED*

[azure sun]

i literally read it and wrote EA anyways too lol

[unreal summit]

ur good lol thx for clarifying for the channel

[quartz bridge]

time to start preparing for rejection now

im going to decompress over the weekend

and work on rd apps lol

[tall plaza]

i have work 😞

!duke

damn.

[untold flume]

I wish nothing but the best of luck for all of us in here! It’s weird to think that we all might be together next year!!

Monday could not come any sooner 😭😭

[tall plaza]

god work on sunday is gonna be dreadful

[pallid fern]

NOOOOO

I don't wanna wait that long

[tall plaza]

ELLIE STAY ALIVE

[pallid fern]

I won't be able to concentrate on my finals on monday

[azure sun]

so many decision days all bunched together

[pallid fern]

I have an easy final on monday so that's good

!duke

no way I'll be getting robertson decision before duke

hopefully I get robertson semifinalist

[quartz bridge]

i have a lit test on monday

smh

AND i don't have early release that day SMH

this is so upsetting

[pallid fern]

I know they say getting robertson semifinalist doesn't mean you get in duke/unc but if still robertson must have reasonable belief that you'll get in duke/unc in order to let you advance to semifinalist status

[pallid fern]

ouch that actually sucks

I have an engineering "final" which is really just a chill presentation

Lit is on tuesday

[quartz bridge]

i really need duke to pull through

i really dont want to write 30 more essays

[pallid fern]

Same 😭

Robertson and duke both in the next week

[tame viper]

idk what i want anymore

[pallid fern]

the two decisions I care about the most

[quartz bridge]

hopefully my common app essay really connected with them

and if not

oh well

[pallid fern]

robertson please accept me

[quartz bridge]

i started freaking out and re reading my duke essays

[pallid fern]

SAME

wait do you wanna share essays in dms? just for fun/curiosity

I need something to help me cope 😭

[narrow raft]

don’t think I can lock in for 30 more supp essays this weekend.

[quartz bridge]

im afraid i cannot that pull up that google doc again

it will traumatize me

[pallid fern]

LOL so fair

[pallid fern]

same 😭

it's okay we got this guys

[regal lark]

im just scared i applied for the wrong major or i did something stupid

[pallid fern]

a mall I'm near has a bomb x_x

sorry that was random but I just found out

[quartz bridge]

i just hope my interviewer wrote a fire report about me

pls pls pls

he talked about the most random stuff too

and i could tell he was lazy and just didnt reach out until right before the deadlien LMAO

[pallid fern]

well they aren't sure if it's a bomb but they're investigating

[pallid fern]

I'm sure you did great

plus interviews don't matter that much

wait nvm they just said they just found out recently that there's no bomb but it was just very suspicious

thank god I love that mall

[quartz bridge]

im doing my ap lit satire play about the unh ceo pew pew er

[pallid fern]

LOL my parents just found out about that

[quartz bridge]

its funny cause one of the kids in our group ed to upenn engineering for cs

so if he gets in we're making him the pew pew

[pallid fern]

future murderer right there

get his signature before he becomes famous

[quartz bridge]

im going to be the old lady who reported him at mcdonalds

[pallid fern]

I thought it was an employee?

[quartz bridge]

yeah

[pallid fern]

well I guess the employee could be an old lady

[quartz bridge]

she was still old

[pallid fern]

ah

[quartz bridge]

and my other friend is the CEO

and the other friend is the head of the NYPD

[regal lark]

will the counselor meeting tmr give any meaningful info

[pallid fern]

maybe some but idk

[quartz bridge]

well know that we alrdy know the date pro not

maybe like how many they accepted

and deffered

like 99% of our decisions are final ATP

i could be setting in the rejection pile right this second

LOL

[pallid fern]

no trust acceptances for us all

I wonder if the shooter planned to get caught

like he had all the stuff on him

eh either way

you put me down a rabbit hole of checking for the most recent news on him 😭

[regal lark]

also something interesting from here

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/e8glqs/ama_with_duke_admissions_1211_at_7_pm/?sort=confidence

[pallid fern]

ooh interesting

[pallid fern]

then there's me who submitted 2 extra recs x_x

this year they didn't accept visual art portfolios so RIP me

though then again I don't think my portfolio is very strong LOL

[regal lark]

im sure its fine

[regal lark]

was it something they just changed i didnt know

i literally applied with a visual studies minor 😭

[pallid fern]

they accept performance art or music portfolios

But this year and last year (dunno before that) they had some trouble with the visual art professors so no visual art portfolios

[regal lark]

oh shoot okayk

thats lowkey good for me ngl

[pallid fern]

I'm both happy and sad cause on one hand I'm too lazy to compile it neatly and my thing sucks, on the other hand it might have helped me

But idk

It might have hurt me too

who knows

[dapper willow]

Duke University ED Date

<t:1734393600:F> in your local time
@everyone

!duke

[flat junco]

Duke ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734393600:F> in your local time
5 days, 22 hours and 50 minutes until the decision date

[thorn sinew]

lelelel

[quartz bridge]

!duke

[flat junco]

Duke ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734393600:F> in your local time
5 days, 22 hours and 48 minutes until the decision date

[quartz bridge]

AHHH

thank god it comes out after my dance comp lowkey

could not handle that stress

[hushed ice]

Lol

This is interesting

[harsh heath]

Monday?

Ugh

Gotta wait a whole weekend bro

[drowsy torrent]

Ya imagine 😂😂😂

[harsh heath]

Bro just gon get rejected earlier😭

[drowsy torrent]

Yuhhhh

[narrow raft]

Probably lots of percentages, I heard about 500 more people applied this year than last year so the accept % is a little lower. Think that kind of stuff

[pallid fern]

At least we get closure

[quartz bridge]

i wanna get rejected now though

so i can lock in for RD

[pallid fern]

Same 😭

[tall plaza]

i wanna get in so i can get everything ready

💩

[harsh heath]

I’m interested to hear what reasoning they give for the increase

I’m sure it’s a lot of reasons but I wonder what their perspective is

[pallid fern]

this was from the duke ama reddit post

Epic response

links to the Tomorrow song in Annie

[kindred sparrow]

who runs their reddit loll

[frail sluice]

hmmmmm this server is more active than the reddit

[eternal mauve]

If y’all have questions @bright prawn is a great person to ask

[merry harbor]

they are SAT optional, that's why
most people ran away from SAT requuired schools
for example, Yale reduced by 14%, you can expect the same for Harvard and others.
So test optional schools most likely recieved a lot of applications this cycle.
Liberal Arts College in particular.
most of them haven't even released decisions yet or they are releasing it along with ivies like Williams

[pallid fern]

plus with the carolina promise more established now, more people from the carolinas are gonna apply

Plus a rise in US news rankings = more applications

[dapper willow]

It was multiple people

The IW is the initials of the person responding

[dapper willow]

Lol

[merry harbor]

ohhh, has Duke also done something like UNC

[bright prawn]

around 10% of incoming class

is from nc

[regal lark]

so if there’s 600 or so spots for ed (excluding qb and athletes), around 60 people will be from nc?

that’s lowkey not that many people if you think about the fact that countless high schools in nc have more than 60 people eding to duke

[hushed ice]

Huh?

Sorry the math twisting me up

Just grabbed

[tall plaza]

what about sc?

[tall plaza]

ME

[tame viper]

i would also like to know

[harsh heath]

I think it’s including both Carolina’s

They’re increasing across both

[bright prawn]

No idea

[bright prawn]

Yes

It’s a Carolina’s initiative

[bright prawn]

Ik a lot of kids from sc tho

[eternal mauve]

Fake

Wait

Nvm

You’re not fake

I am

[bright prawn]

What

[eternal mauve]

Dw about it 😇

I take back my comment

[wanton sun]

Do you think I know you irl

[eternal mauve]

You guys prob follow each other and have no idea

[bright prawn]

Are you a duke freshman

Probably

[wanton sun]

Yeah

[eternal mauve]

Didn’t you follow the whole Duke class

[wanton sun]

What dorm

[bright prawn]

Yeah

WH

[eternal mauve]

fan behavior

[bright prawn]

@wanton sun did you go to midnight breakfast and see the band

[wanton sun]

Oh alr I prob dont know you, im randolph

[wanton sun]

I went to midnight breakfast

[bright prawn]

I’m in Randolph every other day

[wanton sun]

Didnt see the band

[bright prawn]

What a shame

[wanton sun]

Left or right common room

[bright prawn]

Right

Always

Left common room is for Blackwell

[wanton sun]

Oh I’m always left

[bright prawn]

Dms

[eternal mauve]

Smooth

[regal lark]

did the counselor meeting just talk about the same numbers u guys said before

[quartz bridge]

yeah does anyone know what happened in the counselor webinar

[regal lark]

just out of curiosity does duke consider a letter of rec from duke faculty and an experience with them especially if it’s a local school to be “more” valuable

[tame viper]

depends on a variety of factors

[bright prawn]

Wdym

[quartz bridge]

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1244708.page any truth to this?

also warning this sub is extremely toxic and full of rich bitchy moms 😭

[tame viper]

if there was i imagine it would be disseminated at the counselor’s webinar today

[quartz bridge]

has anyone actually heard what down at the counselor's meeting though?

I checked reddit and there was nothing

[tame viper]

personally i would happily welcome a two day delay for decisions

[bright prawn]

I can go ask Vincent price for you

[narrow raft]

Only saw min for a second, will see her tomorrow. She said blah blah very competitive, more applied this year than last (and that was like 2000 more than the year before), and that 113 QB (about double two years ago). ED rate will be lower.

Basically, “you have a great application, now go work on your RD essays” lol

[tame viper]

thanks for the update, appreciate it greatly

[quartz bridge]

see who tommorow?

[buoyant drum]

can't wait to be rejected

[regal lark]

my bad but basically I was wondering if having a lor and experience with duke looks more enticing to admissions instead of an experience and rec of the same level from somewhere else

[quartz bridge]

i think whoever can speak to your abilities the best will be the better lor. just my opinion though 🤷‍♀️

[unreal summit]

^

having someone with connections almost never outweights a geniune letter that speaks to ur strengths after knowing u for a long period of time

[quartz bridge]

did anyone get an email about a virtual admissions session?

someone on reddit did but I can't tell if they're BSing

[bright prawn]

If the letter is of equal quality

Yes

But if the non duke person can speak more to your qualiry(what matters more), then go with them

[narrow raft]

My school counselor.

[pallid fern]

2000 more ED applicants this year than last year?!

cause if so that's actually crazy

[pallid fern]

agreed

[pallid fern]

I didn't

[eternal mauve]

2k more is insane

Gl gang

[teal basalt]

gl ❤️

[lofty pelican]

pretty sure it’s last year was an increase of 2k

[teal basalt]

if anyone wants to chance eachother dms

[pallid fern]

wdym? like last year ED had ~6000, so this year is ~8000?

[unreal summit]

its a 2k increase from 2 years ago

[lofty pelican]

nah like year before 4000 then 6000

[pallid fern]

Ooh

[unreal summit]

so not ness this year

[pallid fern]

Nvm then

[unreal summit]

i think

[lofty pelican]

Like two years

[short zenith]

!duke

[flat junco]

Duke ED Decision Date

The decision date is <t:1734393600:F> in your local time
4 days, 22 hours and 16 minutes until the decision date

[lofty pelican]

It was like 500-600 increase this year

[pallid fern]

24% is crazy

if only I were born a few years earlier

[lofty pelican]

It’s cuz test optional

[pallid fern]

yeah

and a rise in rankings

plus more fin aid

[lofty pelican]

yeah

I wanna know legacy admit %

[pallid fern]

Also can I say how dead the emory channel is even though ED decisions got released today for them

like I was expecting so much more activity

Gtech for ea1 had more activity

[pallid fern]

same

Just the number of hooked applicants in general

[short zenith]

what are yall planning on studying in the future

[pallid fern]

I wanna create my own major at duke

UX design

[lofty pelican]

yeah I’m legacy so wanna see my odds

[pallid fern]

Though if I can create my own major I might want to do something a bit more broad like human centered design

[lofty pelican]

CS/Econ or smth

[pallid fern]

But for most schools I'm applying info sci + ux design concentration (or equivalent)

[pallid fern]

lucky duck

Either way you'll have a better chance of getting in

not sure by how much though

[lofty pelican]

yeah part of why I applied

[pallid fern]

me when I only have legacy to international unis aka unis that don't consider legacy + I have no interest in attending ;-;

I legitimately don't know what I'll do if I get rejected

rn I'm focusing on robertson lol

[eternal mauve]

You’ll go to another school

[pallid fern]

robertson please accept me

[pallid fern]

okay true but I will need a LOT of time to recover

[eternal mauve]

Emory is more popular as an ed2 school

[pallid fern]

makes sense tbh

[bright prawn]

Damn bruh

I be applying to Robertson as a first year

[eternal mauve]

And thats ok you might be upset till you get to your college

But it’ll be pk

[eternal mauve]

You should share your thoughts on Duke here bro

[pallid fern]

the robertson semifinalist decisions come out before duke and if I get accepted as a semifinalist that means they must have reasonable belief that I'm good enough for duke so hopefully they accept me

[pallid fern]

yes definitely

[pallid fern]

yeah thanks

Cornell + Umich are tied for my second choice

so hopefully one of them will clutch up

[eternal mauve]

Do you live in Mich?

[pallid fern]

Nope lol

WA

Udub is top 5 for me though

[eternal mauve]

Dang you must be rich asf

[pallid fern]

so I'm glad I have a good state school

x_x

[eternal mauve]

Yeah UW is great

[pallid fern]

I'm lucky enough that I can afford oos

[eternal mauve]

Lots of ca people go to uw

[lofty pelican]

yeah if I get rejected I’ll just go to my state flagship w most of my friends and I got a lot of friends there

[eternal mauve]

Yeah rich asf bro

Umich oos is like what 80k?

[pallid fern]

but I still want to get robertson so I can save up for grad school cause my parents aren't paying for that

[pallid fern]

yeah something like that

[quartz bridge]

i heard someone say 1/4 legacies got accepted last year ed but that was a random ass redit user

[pallid fern]

makes sense

[eternal mauve]

Lowkey I would avoid oos publics

[quartz bridge]

so no base

[eternal mauve]

It’s really not worth it

[unreal summit]

lol ytea im not appling to a singel oos public

even tho i can pay for it

the roi is just so bad

u dont even get small class sizes

[eternal mauve]

Many of the oos people ik at my Publix regret it

[lofty pelican]

Yeah same

[pallid fern]

The main thing is that Umich is one of the best schools for my major (ux design)

[unreal summit]

im only applying to ucs + publics

[pallid fern]

But yeah publics aren't my first choices either

[quartz bridge]

umich is like the only oos public i applied to

[bright prawn]

What questions y’all have

[pallid fern]

The only thing is that uw is too close to home and I have people I wanna avoid there x_x

[bright prawn]

But someone keep telling me to go to ucla

[quartz bridge]

howd u get in

jk

[eternal mauve]

Idk even then if you’re planning on going to grad school there’s no point paying 80k+ for 500+ people lecture halls

[pallid fern]

I love asking this question to people: what's your least favorite thing about duke

[eternal mauve]

Ofc cause I’m here

That should be enough reason

[eternal mauve]

He’s cracked asf

[bright prawn]

Frat culture

[pallid fern]

the info sci dep at umich has smaller classes and those are the main things I care about

[bright prawn]

Being so dominant

[pallid fern]

huh I thought greek life isn't as dominant anymore after duke banned them from greek houses?

[quartz bridge]

really? i heard greek life isn't really that big there

[bright prawn]

My dad made a billion dollar donation

[pallid fern]

x_x

[quartz bridge]

because it's detached from campus

[pallid fern]

Yeah

[bright prawn]

We take buses to random fields in the middle of nowhere

[pallid fern]

And you have to live on campus 3 years

[bright prawn]

Each Saturday

For darties

[bright prawn]

They’re bringing it up

[pallid fern]

I think I vaguely heard about that

[bright prawn]

There’s been 3 on campus so far

[quartz bridge]

i saw my friends admission file from duke ed a month ago

it had like barely any comments on it

[eternal mauve]

I see I mean if you think it’s worth 🤷‍♀️

[pallid fern]

Honestly I'm more of a hang out with a few friends and play board games kinda gal

[bright prawn]

Hate

[bright prawn]

There’s room for that

[eternal mauve]

The hate u give

[bright prawn]

A decent space

[bright prawn]

That’s my line

[bright prawn]

I got in first read

Because of one ec

[eternal mauve]

I’m a lover not a hater

[pallid fern]

Yeah I'll visit if I have to choose between umich and cornell (or any other school really) but my parents kinda hate cornell cause of the suicide school reputation lol

[bright prawn]

D1 hater

[quartz bridge]

oh

my friend had 2 reads

[eternal mauve]

Yeah my parents wouldnt let me apply lol

[bright prawn]

My boy at umich sounds hella fun

[pallid fern]

what ec?

[eternal mauve]

That’s you

[quartz bridge]

i think they give 2 reads for everyone in ED

but idk

[bright prawn]

🤫

[eternal mauve]

Did you see your file

[quartz bridge]

its boys nation

he said it yesterday

[bright prawn]

Everyone gets two reads

[pallid fern]

If I get in duke (or honestly whatever college) I will definitely request my file

[bright prawn]

I got in on the first

[bright prawn]

Yes

[pallid fern]

huh interesting

[eternal mauve]

That’s so cool what did it say

[eternal mauve]

Bro doxxed himself

Nice one

[quartz bridge]

wait so you just didn't get a second read

[bright prawn]

Any student from the Bay Area who is pre med is banned

[bright prawn]

I did

[eternal mauve]

…

[bright prawn]

I got in on the first

[eternal mauve]

Clearly not

Too many Bay Area premeds there

Also I applied for Marine bio to Duke 😭

[quartz bridge]

wait im confused why did they even read ur app a second time then lmao

[pallid fern]

probably to confirm that the first reader didn't make any big mistakes

[pallid fern]

huh I didn't even know they had that as a major lol

[bright prawn]

What’s the Nuevo school

[bright prawn]

Ask vinnie p

[quartz bridge]

my friend applied marine bio. the person i saw the admissions file for

[pallid fern]

ooh interesting

[quartz bridge]

her first major was the same as mine though

[bright prawn]

There’s 2 billionaires on my dorm floor

[eternal mauve]

They have a great lab for marine bio research

[quartz bridge]

she had 4s on everything except a 5 on test and a 3 on EC

[pallid fern]

oh yeah I know about that

[eternal mauve]

Feeder in the bay

It’s very good

[teal basalt]

does anyone know the acceptance rate between trinity vs pratt.. and like the amount of people that applied early to both

[eternal mauve]

The Nueva school

[bright prawn]

They do‼️

People are doing a semester there

[quartz bridge]

nicholas schoolllll

[pallid fern]

should be the same or at least very similar

[eternal mauve]

Dang really

So cool

[quartz bridge]

their focus programs sound so cool

[bright prawn]

Damn barely scraped by

[pallid fern]

I dont' think I wanna do focus but maybe an llc

[bright prawn]

That’s grad

[quartz bridge]

i wrote about the one im interested in for my why duke

[quartz bridge]

i don't think so

[bright prawn]

Pratt is 10% of incoming class

[pallid fern]

the focus groups change every year though

[eternal mauve]

Can you show me your file I’m very curious

[quartz bridge]

they said she wasn't an over the top candidate but definitely in the mix

[pallid fern]

wait same if you're willing to share I'd love to see a file especially since you're class of 28 so duke probably hasn't changed much of their criteria if anything

[bright prawn]

4+4+5+3=16, there’s two readers so it becomes 32

You get through if ur like

30

31

[quartz bridge]

they didn't count tests in the equation last year

[bright prawn]

I’ll dm it

[quartz bridge]

so she had like a 15/20

[pallid fern]

They're not counting essays this year either I don't think

[pallid fern]

can you dm it to me too if that's okay?

[bright prawn]

They don’t count essays this year

[quartz bridge]

because it was rigor, grades, ec, and rec

[eternal mauve]

If you’re like 29 do you get wl then

[bright prawn]

Sorry too personal

[quartz bridge]

yeah they didn't last year either

[pallid fern]

My score for grades is going to be so low lol

[bright prawn]

It is

[pallid fern]

no problem

[bright prawn]

I had a thanksgiving party at my professors house

For focus

[quartz bridge]

dangggg

[bright prawn]

@eternal mauve check insta

[pallid fern]

The new duke curriculum means we kinda have to do something similar to focus

[eternal mauve]

Ok

[quartz bridge]

i literally wrote about the village they the kids to in the focus cluster im interested in

[pallid fern]

or at least we have to take a few courses in the same subject

[quartz bridge]

historic native american villages>>

[pallid fern]

ooh that's really cool

[quartz bridge]

wait taco

[bright prawn]

Probably

[quartz bridge]

are you more compared to with kids in ur school or region

[bright prawn]

Which one is that

I don’t remember hearing that

American experience?

[bright prawn]

Both

[quartz bridge]

occaneechi

[pallid fern]

my school is full of try hards x_x

[bright prawn]

No

Is that the focus clusters name

[narrow raft]

2,000 more last year. Plus about 500 more this year lucky us!

[quartz bridge]

ok cause most of the other kids in my region are applying from a magnet school that did lottery admissions my year because of covid

and i wasn't sure how to explain that...

[bright prawn]

Wait

You’re looking at to build a better world

I’m in that rn

[quartz bridge]

OMG

is it fun

[bright prawn]

It’s fun

But you get the worst dorm

[pallid fern]

which dorm?

[quartz bridge]

wait they assign you dorms based on focus programsw

[bright prawn]

West house

[bright prawn]

Yes

[pallid fern]

Also if you do study abroads you have to take a language course based on what country you're going to right?

[quartz bridge]

....I thought it was just completley randomized like u get paired with people with different majors

[pallid fern]

Cause I feel like if that's the case I gotta figure out what study abroad I wanna do so I can choose the right language my first year x_x

[pallid fern]

nope

Not if you do focus

Or llc

[bright prawn]

All the focus students in a cluster live together

[bright prawn]

You don’t need to worry about that

That’s my problem this year

[bright prawn]

Nope

[pallid fern]

really? huh

[narrow raft]

Applied to Pratt but would be so up for UX design with you!

[quartz bridge]

do you think they'll let more test optional kids this year

[pallid fern]

AHHH omg someone who knows what UX design is

What major in pratt?

[quartz bridge]

because duke probably got more TO apps because of other schools going test required

[pallid fern]

I dunno, probably similar to last year if I had to guess

[pallid fern]

oh true

idk then

[bright prawn]

No idea

[quartz bridge]

ik so many kids who went TO

like the other kid from my school

[pallid fern]

Honestly I think the new trinity curriculum is chill but I don't wanna take two foreign languages, I suck at them 😭

[bright prawn]

Duke has study abroad in Singapore but what language would they make you take

[pallid fern]

Mandarin I guess

[bright prawn]

I’m lucky that I don’t have to

[quartz bridge]

im already fluent in 5 languages, what's another (sigh im gonna crash)

[bright prawn]

2028 is last class exempt

[pallid fern]

jeez that's crazy

[bright prawn]

Which one’s

[narrow raft]

I applied Nov 14 so will be waiting forever. Sending you good Robertson vibes

[pallid fern]

lucky duck

[quartz bridge]

3 indian languages, english, and french

[pallid fern]

thank you 😭

[pallid fern]

I studied french in middle school and quit because I could not get it x_x

[quartz bridge]

my bestie is french

like lives in lyon and everything

[pallid fern]

I'm probably going to just take Chinese because even though I'm chinese I do not know it well enough 😭

[bright prawn]

3 Indian languages is crazy

I only know one

Calm lug

Luh

[quartz bridge]

one of them wasn't even on the common app

Lol

[bright prawn]

Terrible city

[pallid fern]

Plus I don't wanna take 3 semesters of a new language because I heard the first few classes are very workload heavy

[quartz bridge]

theres like over a 140 though so it makes sense

[narrow raft]

Those are on my list too - which programs?

[pallid fern]

I can understand 2 other chinese dialects, wish that counted

[pallid fern]

what are you talking about?

[bright prawn]

For languages

?

[pallid fern]

yeah

[quartz bridge]

ill prob just continuing to take french

[pallid fern]

Plus foreign languages are NOT my forte

[bright prawn]

Depends

[quartz bridge]

i already have DE credit but idk if it'll work OOS

[pallid fern]

duke doesn't accept many DE or AP credits

[bright prawn]

There’s MASSIVE variance in professors

Are any of you eng

Or pre med

[narrow raft]

Never trust the random ass Reddit user. Probably higher a little for hooked because parents are well educated and they def should be able to answer why Duke?

[pallid fern]

makes sense but my brain just doesn't do foreign languages so I wanna spend my time taking other funner classes so chinese for the win lol

[quartz bridge]

nope, envi sci, gender studies, and econ

[bright prawn]

Why triple major

That’s hard

[pallid fern]

Plus I'm embarrassed that I don't know chinese as well as I should so it might be a good idea to brush up on it x_x

[quartz bridge]

1/4 is still 25% which is a lot higher than the effective acceptance rate of 10% last year

it seems believable

[pallid fern]

I thought you could only do 2 majors max

[bright prawn]

You can do a combo of 3

[quartz bridge]

2 of them are minors

[bright prawn]

Major minor certificate

[pallid fern]

Yeah so 2 majors + 1 minor/concentration

[quartz bridge]

so i forgot to qualify

clarify

envi sci is the major

[bright prawn]

Dukes cutting down on legacy

It’s getting hard

[pallid fern]

If I do program II I can combine the I&E certificate and psychology into one human-centered design major, then do PPE + M&M certificates

[quartz bridge]

yeah a lot of UMC parents are getting distressed because their legacy kids aren't getting in

[pallid fern]

and probably add a bunch of decision sciences and pub pol classes into program 2 as well

[narrow raft]

I heard it was big like 20 years ago but not so much now.

[quartz bridge]

if u ever wanna be traumatized go check out dc urban moms

[pallid fern]

I love program 2 so much

[quartz bridge]

they're actually scary

[quartz bridge]

an unqualified legacy is not getting in

like u still need to have a duke worthy application

[pallid fern]

I just heard my mom talking downstairs about duke 😭

[narrow raft]

Me too!

[quartz bridge]

i want to get the sustainability engagement certificate

my interviewer has that so we were talking about it

[bright prawn]

You can help me lobby duke into divestment

[pallid fern]

ayyeee if we both get in duke we should play some games together

[bright prawn]

they’re kinda strict ab program 2

[quartz bridge]

lol one of my ec's is literally lobbying

how funny

[bright prawn]

They gatekeep their financial portfolio

Dukes being a pain an it

[pallid fern]

I know, my second choice is computational media but I want to try program II

[bright prawn]

About it

[quartz bridge]

i know dukes need blind for domestics but im scared they're going to reject me bc i basically need close to a full ride

and i'm not NC + SC

[narrow raft]

My mom was not feeling that gorge when we visited

[lofty pelican]

Hopefully I’m qualified

[pallid fern]

you'll be fine, duke is really good with fin aid

[bright prawn]

Lies

Hahahahahahahaha

[narrow raft]

How did you see it?

[quartz bridge]

cause she sent it to me

[bright prawn]

Dukes one of the worst with fin aid

[pallid fern]

really? I mean they're need blind and they have a huge fin aid endowment

[quartz bridge]

are you middle class?

[bright prawn]

1. They’re not need blind, got sued for it

[pallid fern]

Yeah middle class people are kinda screwed

[quartz bridge]

no private uni is kind to the middle class sigh

[bright prawn]

One of my friends earns 120k, duke charged them significantly more than the estimator

And they had to fight a lot

To get it lowered

[pallid fern]

ouch

[quartz bridge]

they did take a lot more questbridge this past 2 years

maybe theyre in their change arc

[narrow raft]

She got it? That’s hopeful.

[dapper solar]

Duke is edging me frfr

[quartz bridge]

oh my family makes a lot lower than that...

[unreal summit]

why is that hopeful ap scores dont mean shit lol

[narrow raft]

That’s a good question. Would love to know.

[unreal summit]

esp 4's

[quartz bridge]

that's not AP scores lol

[unreal summit]

oh

[quartz bridge]

it was her rating on sections out of 5

[bright prawn]

Nope

[unreal summit]

i read that wrong

oops

[bright prawn]

Colleges love to admit extremely yooor

Poor

And wealthy

[unreal summit]

ye middle class gets fucked

unlucky

[bright prawn]

Full pay troll

[unreal summit]

i wonder how much full pay is this year

i wouldnt be surpised if i aws paying 100k

for school next year

[pallid fern]

like 90k including everything I think

[quartz bridge]

i shouldve done questbridge but i didnt want to match to a school besides duke and if i only ranked duke i would be competing against like 5000 other kids who ranked them

sigh

[bright prawn]

92k

[pallid fern]

Can't you match only duke? And apply duke ED/RD if you get rejected from questbridge

[bright prawn]

Full pay

[quartz bridge]

you can't ed to duke if you don't match

unfortunately

[pallid fern]

ouch

[quartz bridge]

they're like one of the few school who don't do it

[bright prawn]

Duke has a lot of qb kids should’ve went for it

[quartz bridge]

eh it's alright

[pallid fern]

plus honestly I need that duke CAPS, they have one of the best mental health services in a college and I will be using that 😭

[quartz bridge]

i think my stats and ec's are still in range so I can live without the questbridge benefit of doubt (even though all of them are super qualified and deserving)

[pallid fern]

I'm just worried about my grades

That's the main thing I'm worried about

I have a good number of Bs x_x

And all of them in core classes

STEM classes lol

[quartz bridge]

oh

wait whats ur major again

[pallid fern]

program 2, UX design

computational media as a second choice major if I get rejected from program 2

[quartz bridge]

i can't really tell if that's stem or not

[pallid fern]

it kinda is but kinda isn't

Really depends on the school

CMAC is STEM though

Like 50% STEM

50% cs

[quartz bridge]

if ur school is like grade deflating u have ur ACT to back you up

[bright prawn]

Duke caps is very good

And they connect you with external services if they’re full

[pallid fern]

like some schools have my major under the engineering department, some under CS, some under info sci, some under cog sci, etc

[pallid fern]

yeah we have some classes where it's definitely hard to get an A in

[narrow raft]

ME but was thinking about designing an engineering major. They have the new masters in game design too.

[bright prawn]

@pallid fern duke is a petty mfer with grades

[pallid fern]

wdym?

[bright prawn]

They noted I got a b+ in calc ab

[pallid fern]

ooh I didn't even know you could design your own major in pratt

[quartz bridge]

i have a few A-'s they'll prob doc me for that too

[pallid fern]

Yeah which is a huge draw cause I need those services 😭

[pallid fern]

I have that too x_x

[unreal summit]

lol im ngl i saw someone who got noted down for an A- in their whole highschool transcript

[quartz bridge]

although like 50% of the A-'s were in the AP history classes

i hate apush

and apwh left me traumatized

[pallid fern]

I have:

B+ both semesters in biochem 2 honors (grade deflating class though)
B 1 semester ap calc ab
B+ physics honors

And I have a few A-

one in precalc honors

one in english 10 I think

[bright prawn]

Are you a stem major

[pallid fern]

And in ap lang

[quartz bridge]

i took calc ab sophomore year and got an A- too...

[pallid fern]

program 2 in ux design or computational media as a backup

[pallid fern]

better than me x_x

[bright prawn]

[pallid fern]

but hopefully my ap test score will back me up

[quartz bridge]

that class was such a reality check lol

esp coming straight from alg 2

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Jeez skipping precalc is kinda crazy

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I applied to Pratt

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i took it over the summer

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ooh makes more sense then

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so i didn't exactly skip it

but it felt like it

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still A- is better than my B+ x_x

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i did get an A in Calc BC though

yayyyyy

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Ayyyee nice

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Calc bc was so much nicer to me

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I got an A in my first quarter report in calc bc so hopefully duke considers that

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we do NOT talk about what happened during the exam though...

most traumatizing experience of my life

i think my counselor mentioned it in her report too LOL

it went in my additional info and everything

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yeahhhh I don't want to even think about having to take ap tests next spring

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the exam was easy it was NOT about the content

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last year I self studied one semester worth of ap stats in like a few weeks lol

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You get to sue 2

Use

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Still kinda proud that I got a 4 considering how little I studied LOL

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Unless ur Pratt

Then you get 30099

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I definitely should've studied more though but I was severely burnt out x_x