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%).

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

Same with our Chinese friends. More desirable than many ivies

Interesting! In my circle, it’s almost universally Asians and others of color who attend Ivies. The white kids go to Duke.

A PP said Duke is 35% Asian so there are definitely Asians attending in droves

[Anonymous]

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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%).

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?

There must be a Duke intern spamming this board. No one refers to Duke as T10. Many Asians prefer Cornell or Brown to Duke. Both have a better CS programs. Cornell also has better engineering and business programs. Duke is not particularly strong in any subjects. It is in the same league of Vandy and Emory.

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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%).

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?

There must be a Duke intern spamming this board. No one refers to Duke as T10. Many Asians prefer Cornell or Brown to Duke. Both have a better CS programs. Cornell also has better engineering and business programs. Duke is not particularly strong in any subjects. It is in the same league of Vandy and Emory.

The entire OP has to be from Duke intern. We’re really supposed to believe that “our counselor” received an email from Duke admissions who shared application numbers, and then that counselor called up OP.

Sounds like some kids are home from college and bored.

[Anonymous]

Anecdotally, every man I’ve ever met that is a Duke alum is an obnoxious, arrogant, dbag. I can’t stand this dad on my kid’s sport team who outright said he knows more than the coach and is always running his mouth- last week he was wearing a Duke hat. Go figure.

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All of this speculation because OPs kid’s counselor got an email??

[Anonymous]

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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%).

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?

There must be a Duke intern spamming this board. No one refers to Duke as T10. Many Asians prefer Cornell or Brown to Duke. Both have a better CS programs. Cornell also has better engineering and business programs. Duke is not particularly strong in any subjects. It is in the same league of Vandy and Emory.

You sound very bitter

[Anonymous]

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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%).

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

Same with our Chinese friends. More desirable than many ivies

Interesting! In my circle, it’s almost universally Asians and others of color who attend Ivies. The white kids go to Duke.

Historically duke didn’t sandbag Asian applicants as much as ivies did

Duke had higher Asian percentages than even UPenn 20 years ago

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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%).

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?

There must be a Duke intern spamming this board. No one refers to Duke as T10. Many Asians prefer Cornell or Brown to Duke. Both have a better CS programs. Cornell also has better engineering and business programs. Duke is not particularly strong in any subjects. It is in the same league of Vandy and Emory.

The entire OP has to be from Duke intern. We’re really supposed to believe that “our counselor” received an email from Duke admissions who shared application numbers, and then that counselor called up OP.

Sounds like some kids are home from college and bored.

What’re you on about? It’s pretty obvious that the counselor told the kid who then told OP. And apparently it’s been confirmed on Reddit

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anecdotally, every man I’ve ever met that is a Duke alum is an obnoxious, arrogant, dbag. I can’t stand this dad on my kid’s sport team who outright said he knows more than the coach and is always running his mouth- last week he was wearing a Duke hat. Go figure.

Think that's on point for Duke grads

But also think there's a possibility that this generation of Duke students aren't total dbags. But being a country club dbag is Duke. It's always been their thing

[Anonymous]

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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%).

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

Same with our Chinese friends. More desirable than many ivies

Interesting! In my circle, it’s almost universally Asians and others of color who attend Ivies. The white kids go to Duke.

Historically duke didn’t sandbag Asian applicants as much as ivies did

Duke had higher Asian percentages than even UPenn 20 years ago

Duke accepts all the Asians rejected from HYP. Not that hard to understand.

[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.

Same with our Chinese friends. More desirable than many ivies

Interesting! In my circle, it’s almost universally Asians and others of color who attend Ivies. The white kids go to Duke.

Historically duke didn’t sandbag Asian applicants as much as ivies did

Duke had higher Asian percentages than even UPenn 20 years ago

Duke accepts all the Asians rejected from HYP. Not that hard to understand.

Yale accepts all the Asians that rejected from HPSM so Duke is in good company then

[Anonymous]

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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.

ED schools will likely see more of a boost than REA schools. That is a big difference between Duke and Yale.

Why? There's no specific reason for ED over REA, and historically REA has been a much more popular option due to the nonbinding nature.

I would assume ED in general (not for PP's reason) will continue to grow in popularity because the standard for admission is perceived to be lower than for EA or RD. If you think your only chance of getting into a group of schools is ED, then having the optionality from REA is pointless

There's no reason for that to happen this year only and not in previous years, ED and REA have been the same for decades. The more I'm searching online, the more I believe this is largely specific to Duke this year. I don't believe any other ivy will be posting a 30% increase in early applicants, especially given Yale only had a 1% increase.

There's a possibility that Penn or Brown get close to that level of a surge in ED applicants, but I agree the rest won't. Maybe Cornell too as an option that people feel are "attainable."

Brown had a huge surge 2 years ago. Maybe these things go in clumps, and now Duke is getting a surge. I'd be surprised if Brown was up by that much again.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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

Anonymous wrote:
Same with our Chinese friends. More desirable than many ivies

Anonymous wrote:
Why is that?

Anonymous wrote:
There must be a Duke intern spamming this board. No one refers to Duke as T10. Many Asians prefer Cornell or Brown to Duke. Both have a better CS programs. Cornell also has better engineering and business programs. Duke is not particularly strong in any subjects. It is in the same league of Vandy and Emory.

Cornell and Brown have les than 20% Asians, Duke has 35%….

[Anonymous]

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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%).

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?

There must be a Duke intern spamming this board. No one refers to Duke as T10. Many Asians prefer Cornell or Brown to Duke. Both have a better CS programs. Cornell also has better engineering and business programs. Duke is not particularly strong in any subjects. It is in the same league of Vandy and Emory.

The entire OP has to be from Duke intern. We’re really supposed to believe that “our counselor” received an email from Duke admissions who shared application numbers, and then that counselor called up OP.

Sounds like some kids are home from college and bored.

What’re you on about? It’s pretty obvious that the counselor told the kid who then told OP. And apparently it’s been confirmed on Reddit

Yeah, no. And that same person came here to DCUM to post the same thing???

All will be revealed when Duke publishes their numbers. Until then, this is all fiction.

[Anonymous]

Duke was a safety school for the ivies back in my day (90s). Took my kid to visit and they were meh. They really liked both MIT and Princeton though. Surprised me because although Princeton is strong in STEM, the schools have very different campuses and settings.