Duke experiences large drop in RD applicants

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote: My first thought was the Dobbs decision and abortion access.

This year many Girls might have though no thanks to going to restrictive North Carolina. Duke is private and demands high stats so the girls who qualify have plenty of other options.

+1. My 17 year old ruled out states where she can’t get an abortion. Which sadly meant no Rice and no Georgia Tech.

You raised a very intelligent human.
+1 as well.

It is not just about abortion people. Wake up. Go read project 2025 and decide whether a red state is even remotely a good idea for any human.

Texas had the most in-migration of ANY state last year. I would venture that at least some of these hundreds of thousands of people have a uterus and are not MAGA. Maybe they're moving to Texas because it has the most Fortune 500 companies of any state?

-- no ties to TX but so sick of the virtual signalling 17 yr olds on TikTok

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/05/the-no-1-state-americans-moved-to-in-2023-its-not-florida.html#:~:text=Texas%20ranked%20as%20the%20No,%2C%20according%20to%20U%2DHaul.&text=The%20Southern%20state%20has%20become,the%20most%20Fortune%20500%20companies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke is more of a graduate/professional school than an undergrad school.

Absolute opposite, Duke is one of the few schools that prioritizes undergrads. They have strong professional schools too though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: My first thought was the Dobbs decision and abortion access.

This year many Girls might have though no thanks to going to restrictive North Carolina. Duke is private and demands high stats so the girls who qualify have plenty of other options.

+1. My 17 year old ruled out states where she can’t get an abortion. Which sadly meant no Rice and no Georgia Tech.

Imagine sending Ms. Snowflake off to college, assured that she can get an abortion without driving more than 2 hours. Man that would make me sleep well at night.

It’s about more than this one procedure, although that is important in and of itself. It also says a lot about how women are treated/valued/respected in that state. In some extreme cases, like Texas, it’s about whether they’d let you bleed out in the parking lot to avoid prosecution. Young women have to pay attention to these thing since getting home to a more rational state in time might not be an option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: My first thought was the Dobbs decision and abortion access.

This year many Girls might have though no thanks to going to restrictive North Carolina. Duke is private and demands high stats so the girls who qualify have plenty of other options.

+1. My 17 year old ruled out states where she can’t get an abortion. Which sadly meant no Rice and no Georgia Tech.

Troll

Not a troll. Real mom of a real kid. Yes, she could fly home but would live in a city full
Of girls who could not. In a state with affordable housing shortages and no paid family leave, forced birth is not an acceptable policy and she would prefer not to turn a blind eye when there are other places she can spend four years. I have no idea if this is affecting applications at Duke, she is just one example.

Virtual signaling at its finest! What a bunch of drivel. Any intelligent person would ignore this post!

Yup, totally virtue signaling because she’s told this to exactly no one but me. And I shared only because this is completely anonymous and I thought it relevant to the topic at hand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They received 6240 ED applications, an increase of over 1000 from the prior cycle. So even with the ED bump they were net net down for the entire cycle. I would doubt anyone is worried there, it is a really hard get.

https://today.duke.edu/2023/12/duke-sees-record-number-applications-early-admission

Also read this, Duke is one of the least economically diverse schools. I wonder if people have wised up to that fact.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/07/magazine/duke-economic-diversity.html

And P.S. rough days for basketball post-Coach K, the bump for sports is well documented in higher ed.

I have no other insight or horse here, just interesting to see.

I also have no insight or horse here, but do think that some may be deterred when they see stellar applicants who are their peers rejected in RD.

Also, Duke being one of the least economically diverse schools has been a thing forever. Think WSJ wrote a story on this a couple decades ago and am confident that there have been many similar stories in the interim. And there are enough parking lots there - unlike Harvard, Yale, etc - that there are just rows and rows of BMWs, Broncos, Mercedes, Range Rovers, etc. That's a little more figurative, but with the proliferation of parking in a suburban setting, luxury cars are pretty much everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Can anyone comment on how legacy kids did in applying (mom went undergrad at Duke). Did it help some?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone comment on how legacy kids did in applying (mom went undergrad at Duke). Did it help some?

TBH, nearly all the folks I've known who've gotten in in recent years are not legacy (nor URM, athletes, etc). The one legacy who did get in was probably miserable but didn't fully realize it until after the fact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone comment on how legacy kids did in applying (mom went undergrad at Duke). Did it help some?

YES! Preference is given to legacy applicants during the ED round only.