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Anonymous wrote:I don't know what you guys are smoking but Duke is statistically nearly as as much of a lottery as Harvard and Princeton- in fact more of one from certain schools. They don't like Sidwell for some reason. Duke does favor legacies in ED. Our kids are at a Big 3 school and we saw kids with the exact same stats as the OP's son getting rejected from HYPSM AND Duke and Northwestern. This kid seems like average supersmart kid- a dime a dozen in the DMV. And unless I missed something and the EC's are SUPER SUPER unique or the kid is URM/first gen which was not mentioned, all 3 are a crap shoot and it's ridiculous to try to game this.
Have to agree with the part about Duke having feeder schools. My child is at a T3 equivalent in another city and the have only gotten 3 kids into Duke in the past five years or so and all are recruited athletes. Acceptance rates to H/Y/P are definitely notably. higher from our school.
+1 the only school I've seen consistently get kids into Duke from DMV is TJHSST and maybe Gilman/Chevy Chase.
It may feel like that, but Duke gets applications from more than 13,000 schools, and they admit about 3,000 students. That means there are at least 10,000 schools where they admit no one.
That’s true, but I was specifically referring to the DMV area. Of course other schools around the country and even the world will send more, especially NCSSM.
This year, 3 TJ graduates went to Duke (1 AB Duke, 1 Robertson). In the summer, they had parties for the DMV students headed to Duke, and we saw at least 40 students there (from various DMV schools).
Wow so few, must be one of the lowest in years. Out of curiosity how do you know this level of detail, are you the parent of a Duke student who was at these parties?
Yes, I’m the parent of the TJ graduate who is now at Duke, and we were at the parties. They said that last year, about 6 TJ graduates went to Duke. My child greatly enjoys Duke so far, joined several clubs, published an article in their Chronicle newspaper, and got a part-time job on campus building some websites.
That is great, I am glad to hear your DC is enjoying Duke and taking advantage of its offerings! Out of curiosity, was your DC one of the scholarship winners or were those just the classmates who won the scholarships? And even if your DC wasn't one of the winners, do you know what helped the other two with winning a scholarship to Duke? Even just getting into Duke is so competitive, I can't imagine how hard winning a scholarship is.
Yes, she is an AB Duke scholar. For Robertson, students need to apply, while we had no idea that Duke even offers any merit-based scholarships. For AB Duke and several others, every applicant is considered automatically. DD applied RD and received an email from Duke in March saying she is a finalist for the scholarship. Her first thought was it's a scam. They gave her a week to write several more essays and scheduled an interview which turned out to be very difficult with a bunch of technical questions. Then they called her on April 1 to tell her she is the winner, and she thought they are joking. The professor had to repeat about 3 times that she is not joking. AB Duke scholarship is for self-motivated students, and DD has always been extremely driven (participated in and won various tournaments; if she didn't participate, then volunteered as a judge; co-authored a CS textbook; was a co-captain of 2 school clubs, had a part-time teaching job since the age of 14, even during the school year, and much more). High stats, most rigorous workload, NMS, all her own accomplishments, we've never checked her homework or reminded her about it.