Duke Announces New Record Low Acceptance Rate

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Anonymous wrote:I always think of the Duke kid as a very well rounded nice kid. Ivy kids are maybe smarter but not as well rounded. If my kid got into Duke, I would be thrilled.

When you say well rounded all you really mean is not as smart. It's a very middle-brow take.

I actually mean more well rounded - for example multiple varsity sports, debate, robotics, performing arts and visual arts not just digging in to one area of interest.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I always think of the Duke kid as a very well rounded nice kid. Ivy kids are maybe smarter but not as well rounded. If my kid got into Duke, I would be thrilled.

When you say well rounded all you really mean is not as smart. It's a very middle-brow take.

Wrong. Well-rounded means having some emotional intelligence and not being a pointy headed jerk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always think of the Duke kid as a very well rounded nice kid. Ivy kids are maybe smarter but not as well rounded. If my kid got into Duke, I would be thrilled.

When you say well rounded all you really mean is not as smart. It's a very middle-brow take.

Wrong. Well-rounded means having some emotional intelligence and not being a pointy headed jerk.

Fewer brains doesn't translate into more emotional intelligence, just more middle-brow obsessions like camping outside a basketball arena for days on end.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always think of the Duke kid as a very well rounded nice kid. Ivy kids are maybe smarter but not as well rounded. If my kid got into Duke, I would be thrilled.

When you say well rounded all you really mean is not as smart. It's a very middle-brow take.

Wrong. Well-rounded means having some emotional intelligence and not being a pointy headed jerk.

Fewer brains doesn't translate into more emotional intelligence, just more middle-brow obsessions like camping outside a basketball arena for days on end.

Proving point why kids want Duke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always think of the Duke kid as a very well rounded nice kid. Ivy kids are maybe smarter but not as well rounded. If my kid got into Duke, I would be thrilled.

Kids turn down Penn Dartmouth Cornell and Brown for Duke the majority of the time, so the kids at Duke are just as smart as those kids because they would be at one of those schools if they didn’t get into Duke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always think of the Duke kid as a very well rounded nice kid. Ivy kids are maybe smarter but not as well rounded. If my kid got into Duke, I would be thrilled.

When you say well rounded all you really mean is not as smart. It's a very middle-brow take.

Wrong. Well-rounded means having some emotional intelligence and not being a pointy headed jerk.

Fewer brains doesn't translate into more emotional intelligence, just more middle-brow obsessions like camping outside a basketball arena for days on end.

Proving point why kids want Duke.

No one has ever confused the Cameron Crazies and emotional intelligence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always think of the Duke kid as a very well rounded nice kid. Ivy kids are maybe smarter but not as well rounded. If my kid got into Duke, I would be thrilled.

When you say well rounded all you really mean is not as smart. It's a very middle-brow take.

Wrong. Well-rounded means having some emotional intelligence and not being a pointy headed jerk.

Fewer brains doesn't translate into more emotional intelligence, just more middle-brow obsessions like camping outside a basketball arena for days on end.

That’s not correct. It’s for weeks and sometimes up to 2 months for the UNC game (if the home UNC game is the one in March, like this year).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Duke, Northeastern, why schools have below a 5% acceptance rate. The common app is making joke of the system.

Did you just put Duke and Northeastern in the same sentence? LOL.

Duke and Northeastern and whole bunch of others just game system to get acceptance rate very low. No one believes Duke is harder to get into than Yale or Princeton or Harvard. No one. So these acceptance rates are artificial. The common app makes it too easy to apply. Plus with early decision duke games it. Harvard doesn't have early decision. yale doesn't either. Duke is not in same category as those two schools.

I'm pretty sure Duke does well in what matters, which is student outcomes:

Usual suspects

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always think of the Duke kid as a very well rounded nice kid. Ivy kids are maybe smarter but not as well rounded. If my kid got into Duke, I would be thrilled.

When you say well rounded all you really mean is not as smart. It's a very middle-brow take.

Wrong. Well-rounded means having some emotional intelligence and not being a pointy headed jerk.

Fewer brains doesn't translate into more emotional intelligence, just more middle-brow obsessions like camping outside a basketball arena for days on end.

That’s not correct. It’s for weeks and sometimes up to 2 months for the UNC game (if the home UNC game is the one in March, like this year).

Yeah, I’m not paying for my kid to get an expensive education only for them to take up semi-permanent residency outside a gym for a good chunk of the semester.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Duke, Northeastern, why schools have below a 5% acceptance rate. The common app is making joke of the system.

Did you just put Duke and Northeastern in the same sentence? LOL.

Duke and Northeastern and whole bunch of others just game system to get acceptance rate very low. No one believes Duke is harder to get into than Yale or Princeton or Harvard. No one. So these acceptance rates are artificial. The common app makes it too easy to apply. Plus with early decision duke games it. Harvard doesn't have early decision. yale doesn't either. Duke is not in same category as those two schools.

+1

[Anonymous]

The number of seats doesn’t vary dramatically, so all these record low admissions rates mean is that more kids applied. And that’s a losing game - the lower the acceptance rates, the more schools each kid applies to. The more schools each kid applies to, the more applicants each school receives. The more applicants each school receives, the lower the acceptance rates…

[Anonymous]

The Common App is more responsible for this than Duke’s prestige.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Duke, Northeastern, why schools have below a 5% acceptance rate. The common app is making joke of the system.

Did you just put Duke and Northeastern in the same sentence? LOL.

Duke and Northeastern and whole bunch of others just game system to get acceptance rate very low. No one believes Duke is harder to get into than Yale or Princeton or Harvard. No one. So these acceptance rates are artificial. The common app makes it too easy to apply. Plus with early decision duke games it. Harvard doesn't have early decision. yale doesn't either. Duke is not in same category as those two schools.

I'm pretty sure Duke does well in what matters, which is student outcomes:

With Wharton I would’ve thought Penn is higher