Duke’s Acceptance Rate Completely Plummeted This Year - What Happened?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They didn't get enough good applicants.

+1

This, or they are making up for taking too many kids after the covid deferral influx, like any schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too many URMs, athletes, legacies and donors' kids to accept.

Sure. URMs are about 17% of the class. But you won’t be happy until they’re at 0

Stop saying that

[Anonymous]

Duke is the school that graduated Stephen Miller.

Who cares about acceptance...

Seriously Duke is way way over rated.

[Anonymous]

Hope I don't have typos here, but this is what I found:

Class of 2027, ED apps 4855, accepted 800, rate 16.5%
Class of 2026, ED apps 4015, accepted 855, rate 21%
Class of 2025, ED apps 5036, accepted 840, rate 16.7%

Pre-test optional:
Class of 2024, ED apps 4300, accepted 887, rate 20.6%
Class of 2023, ED apps 4678, accepted 882, rate 18%
Class of 2022, ED apps 4090, accepted 875, rate 21%
Class of 2021, ED apps 3516, accepted 881, rate 24.5%

So, apps increased, but did not hit the record from two years ago. However, Duke chose to admit fewer ED, so naturally the rate is lower.

The record low ED rate is essentially a mere artifact of Duke's enrollment management choices.

[Anonymous]

The athletes who got a 5th year of eligibility are now gone, so had to bring in more athletes to fill rosters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They didn't get enough good applicants.

Probably not true. Daughters friend with perfect scores and stats was deferred. Not sure what happened at Duke this year

1600/36, 4.7+??

36 and perfect GPA, good extracurriculars. Duke is harder than many ivies though so I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hope I don't have typos here, but this is what I found:

Class of 2027, ED apps 4855, accepted 800, rate 16.5%
Class of 2026, ED apps 4015, accepted 855, rate 21%
Class of 2025, ED apps 5036, accepted 840, rate 16.7%

Pre-test optional:
Class of 2024, ED apps 4300, accepted 887, rate 20.6%
Class of 2023, ED apps 4678, accepted 882, rate 18%
Class of 2022, ED apps 4090, accepted 875, rate 21%
Class of 2021, ED apps 3516, accepted 881, rate 24.5%

So, apps increased, but did not hit the record from two years ago. However, Duke chose to admit fewer ED, so naturally the rate is lower.

The record low ED rate is essentially a mere artifact of Duke's enrollment management choices.

Duke was 15.3% this year not 16.5%. Duke actually makes their own acceptance rate look higher than it is by including Questbridge admits which no other school does when they report early acceptance rate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke is the school that graduated Stephen Miller.

Who cares about acceptance...

Seriously Duke is way way over rated.

Princeton graduated Ted Cruz, Harvard graduated Jared Kushner, UPenn graduated Trump… seeing a trend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They didn't get enough good applicants.

+1

This, or they are making up for taking too many kids after the covid deferral influx, like any schools.

Duke got plenty of good applicants this year. Seeing many kids with 35/1550+ and top GPA getting rejected/deferred.

[Anonymous]

OP - there are several other colleges that saw a 5-6% drop in acceptance rates for ED.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP - there are several other colleges that saw a 5-6% drop in acceptance rates for ED.

Curious about this too, which ones?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke ED last year was ~20% while this year it was ~15% acceptance rate. No other school experienced a drop like this, does anyone know why this might have happened?

Lots of schools have had record numbers of apps this year, I think Vandy saw a very similar drop in ED acceptance rate. Look at Clemson as well, it’s acceptance rate has dropped by 10 plus points each of the past two years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either the application numbers increased, or Duke decided to accept fewer in the ED round compared to last year, or both.

The question was likely more about why Duke’s rise in applicants was so high this year relative to other schools. Dartmouth announced need blind for internationals this year and they increased by 14% (biggest increase in Ivy League). Duke made no new policy changes and they increased in early apps by 20% compared to last year

See UVA and GA Tech’s numbers for early action and early decision and report back. The short answer is that many schools saw an increase of 15 to 20 percent in early apps, probably a response to the last two years of big drops in RD numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Either the application numbers increased, or Duke decided to accept fewer in the ED round compared to last year, or both.

The question was likely more about why Duke’s rise in applicants was so high this year relative to other schools. Dartmouth announced need blind for internationals this year and they increased by 14% (biggest increase in Ivy League). Duke made no new policy changes and they increased in early apps by 20% compared to last year

Agree that the question is what prompted the increase in apps.

In addition, Duke decided to admit fewer ED this year than last year (800 vs 855), but that factor was completely in Duke's control.

Many top schools (including Harvard) decided to admit less kids in the early round this year, but I’m not sure why

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They didn't get enough good applicants.

Probably not true. Daughters friend with perfect scores and stats was deferred. Not sure what happened at Duke this year

I was kidding.