Duke Sees Dramatic Spike for 2028 ED applicants... Yikes!

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Anonymous wrote:The Supreme Court decision has emboldened Whites and Asians to apply to great schools because their race now won’t hurt their admission chances. Also, kids are looking for strong academics, not wokeness gone wrong. That’s why Duke has a surge of ED and Yale doesn’t. Also, folks are tired of NE provincialism.

Wrong. ED was always there for rich white kids. It's not like Duke has a large percentage of URMs anyways.

Duke is a T10 school that top students want as their first choice. Not complicated.

According to Duke for class of 2027 they were 53% white, 35% Asian, 13% black, 13% hispanic, with 7% multiracial (which is why it adds up to over 100%).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Supreme Court decision has emboldened Whites and Asians to apply to great schools because their race now won’t hurt their admission chances. Also, kids are looking for strong academics, not wokeness gone wrong. That’s why Duke has a surge of ED and Yale doesn’t. Also, folks are tired of NE provincialism.

Wrong. ED was always there for rich white kids. It's not like Duke has a large percentage of URMs anyways.

Duke is a T10 school that top students want as their first choice. Not complicated.

According to Duke for class of 2027 they were 53% white, 35% Asian, 13% black, 13% hispanic, with 7% multiracial (which is why it adds up to over 100%).

35% Asian? Wow. Makes sense, in our Indian circles Duke is very popular.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Supreme Court decision has emboldened Whites and Asians to apply to great schools because their race now won’t hurt their admission chances. Also, kids are looking for strong academics, not wokeness gone wrong. That’s why Duke has a surge of ED and Yale doesn’t. Also, folks are tired of NE provincialism.

Wrong. ED was always there for rich white kids. It's not like Duke has a large percentage of URMs anyways.

Duke is a T10 school that top students want as their first choice. Not complicated.

According to Duke for class of 2027 they were 53% white, 35% Asian, 13% black, 13% hispanic, with 7% multiracial (which is why it adds up to over 100%).

35% Asian? Wow. Makes sense, in our Indian circles Duke is very popular.

Same with our Chinese friends. More desirable than many ivies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Supreme Court decision has emboldened Whites and Asians to apply to great schools because their race now won’t hurt their admission chances. Also, kids are looking for strong academics, not wokeness gone wrong. That’s why Duke has a surge of ED and Yale doesn’t. Also, folks are tired of NE provincialism.

Wrong. ED was always there for rich white kids. It's not like Duke has a large percentage of URMs anyways.

Duke is a T10 school that top students want as their first choice. Not complicated.

Other T10s are not seeing similar jumps, so perhaps it is complicated

[Anonymous]

I'm amazed that many families can afford $93K a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed that many families can afford $93K a year.

https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?198419-Duke-University

It says average annual cost = $31,416

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm amazed that many families can afford $93K a year.

Duke is very generous with financial aid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My guess is ED apps are way up for all competitive schools.

+1. ED and EA are up for all the schools I've been looking at.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Are you legacy? Yale has a 3-4% total acceptance rate.

No Yale has generally been 5-6%, but is probably going to be ~4.5% this year, as will Duke.

Yale is known to not refuse a giant donation. HTH.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Are you legacy? Yale has a 3-4% total acceptance rate.

No Yale has generally been 5-6%, but is probably going to be ~4.5% this year, as will Duke.

Yale is known to not refuse a giant donation. HTH.

Would rather buy a spot at Penn than Yale tbh

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Supreme Court decision has emboldened Whites and Asians to apply to great schools because their race now won’t hurt their admission chances. Also, kids are looking for strong academics, not wokeness gone wrong. That’s why Duke has a surge of ED and Yale doesn’t. Also, folks are tired of NE provincialism.

Wrong. ED was always there for rich white kids. It's not like Duke has a large percentage of URMs anyways.

Duke is a T10 school that top students want as their first choice. Not complicated.

According to Duke for class of 2027 they were 53% white, 35% Asian, 13% black, 13% hispanic, with 7% multiracial (which is why it adds up to over 100%).

35% Asian? Wow. Makes sense, in our Indian circles Duke is very popular.

Same with our Chinese friends. More desirable than many ivies

Why is that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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?

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

Duke has always been a high reach school, in my opinion.

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

I think some of is is coming from people being a bit more realistic, but in my circle the fact that you cannot ED to Harvard and EA to any other private schools was a big factor in kids decisions when they know the odds of getting into Harvard are a crap shoot. They figured they had a better shot at Duke and could still apply early to other privates- so increased their chances.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Supreme Court decision has emboldened Whites and Asians to apply to great schools because their race now won’t hurt their admission chances. Also, kids are looking for strong academics, not wokeness gone wrong. That’s why Duke has a surge of ED and Yale doesn’t. Also, folks are tired of NE provincialism.

Wrong. ED was always there for rich white kids. It's not like Duke has a large percentage of URMs anyways.

Duke is a T10 school that top students want as their first choice. Not complicated.

According to Duke for class of 2027 they were 53% white, 35% Asian, 13% black, 13% hispanic, with 7% multiracial (which is why it adds up to over 100%).

35% Asian? Wow. Makes sense, in our Indian circles Duke is very popular.

Same with our Chinese friends. More desirable than many ivies

Why is that?

It's regarded a better schools than lower ivies like Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth in general not just by Asians.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Supreme Court decision has emboldened Whites and Asians to apply to great schools because their race now won’t hurt their admission chances. Also, kids are looking for strong academics, not wokeness gone wrong. That’s why Duke has a surge of ED and Yale doesn’t. Also, folks are tired of NE provincialism.

Wrong. ED was always there for rich white kids. It's not like Duke has a large percentage of URMs anyways.

Duke is a T10 school that top students want as their first choice. Not complicated.

According to Duke for class of 2027 they were 53% white, 35% Asian, 13% black, 13% hispanic, with 7% multiracial (which is why it adds up to over 100%).

35% Asian? Wow. Makes sense, in our Indian circles Duke is very popular.

Same with our Chinese friends. More desirable than many ivies

Why is that?

It's regarded a better schools than lower ivies like Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth in general not just by Asians.

+1 have seen the same among my circles (white).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Supreme Court decision has emboldened Whites and Asians to apply to great schools because their race now won’t hurt their admission chances. Also, kids are looking for strong academics, not wokeness gone wrong. That’s why Duke has a surge of ED and Yale doesn’t. Also, folks are tired of NE provincialism.

Wrong. ED was always there for rich white kids. It's not like Duke has a large percentage of URMs anyways.

Duke is a T10 school that top students want as their first choice. Not complicated.

According to Duke for class of 2027 they were 53% white, 35% Asian, 13% black, 13% hispanic, with 7% multiracial (which is why it adds up to over 100%).

35% Asian? Wow. Makes sense, in our Indian circles Duke is very popular.

Same with our Chinese friends. More desirable than many ivies

Why is that?

It's regarded a better schools than lower ivies like Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth in general not just by Asians.

+1