Duke Sees Dramatic Spike for 2028 ED applicants... Yikes!
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Anonymous
| DD's counselor got an email from Duke, they received a ~30% increase in ED applicants this year, and are projecting an ED acceptance rate below 13%... This has not helped DD's confidence for her ED chances. On a lighter note, has anyone else seen the applicant numbers for their kid's early school yet? |
Anonymous
| My guess is ED apps are way up for all competitive schools. |
Anonymous
| What about Duke stood out to make it her ED choice? I'd clearly be thinking more seriously about applying to Duke if I were from NC now! |
Anonymous
I wonder if that 30% jump means that people are getting realistic about the highest reach schools or if Duke has become one of those schools. I'd assume that everyone who can afford to apply ED applies somewhere ED, so the bump has to come from somewhere |
Anonymous
| Wow, my DS applied to Yale early and they only saw a 1% increase in early applicants this year. Duke is seriously getting popular, my DS is definitely applying RD even if Yale comes back with an acceptance. |
Anonymous
Duke has always been a high reach school, in my opinion. |
Anonymous
Yep, Duke is really breaking through right now. My daughter said a slew of some of the best kids in her grade ED'ed to Duke this year... and the sad part is based on history, only a few of them will get in. But that's the game, and you have to at least do yourself the courtesy of trying to get in. My daughter will also be going for RD. |
Anonymous
+1, we've only seen very high achieving kids get in from our circles. |
Anonymous
| Decent success in football over the past few years. |
Anonymous
Every prep school counselor and private consultant is pushing the early option now even though they really don't know how things will shake out this year. When in doubt, go with the option that makes the decision to admit you as easy as possible from the school's perspective I guess. People do get a little too hung up on the early acceptance rates though. As Dartmouth has pointed out publicly, recruited athletes already pre-screened and committed to the school skew the numbers. Several schools have much higher percentages of applicants with the legacy connections applying early as well. More people see the %s admitted early though and figure they need to do it too and the wheel continues to turn driving #s up! Schools with ED love it too because it makes planning and filling their classes much easier. |
Anonymous
That can be smart in the best case scenario too because Duke will play ball $$ wise with a Yale acceptance. I know someone who was pretty close to going to Duke over Stanford under similar circumstances with a large amount of $$. |
Anonymous
There are levels of high reach. Everyone EDs and has for a few years now. Is that 30% coming from kids trying to be 'realistic' and choosing Duke over Princeton or is it coming from kids reaching higher and choosing Duke over Emory? I really doubt it's coming from kids who otherwise wouldn't have applied anywhere ED last year |
Anonymous
It really was a serendipitous combination sort of deal, DD loved the academic offerings, heavy focus on undergrads, balance between fun and rigorous academics, and the overall campus. And other small things, like when we visited the food was seriously the best we've had at a college visit without a close second. It really is her dream school so we let her ED and if she gets a fortunate acceptance, we're more than happy to pay for a Duke education. |
Anonymous
| It seems that climate change has somehow made for truly miserable weather in the spring term for a number of years, as far south as Philly at a minimum. With so many of the most selective schools in the bad-spring-weather belt, is it any surprise that Duke is soaring? |
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