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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, daughter was deferred. She’s now going to be applying to several peer schools like Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia, but her heart was with Duke. She’s doing alright though![/quote]

Your DD sounds great, I wouldn’t worry too much. Duke is just too competitive, apparently their acceptance rate completely plummeted this year, moreso than the ivies. Duke is better than many of the ivies anyways so your daughter still has a chance at a great school, don’t read too much into it! My son is applying RD to Duke but we know not to expect anything, but we’d regret not throwing our ring in the hat![/quote]

Son deferred 1580 on track to be salutatorian. Duke was really competitive this year.[/quote]

Sorry.  My DS was deferred in Dec 2020 and rejected in RD the following spring.  Went through the whole merry-go-round “end of first semester senior year update” of additional recommendations, three calls to regional AO, prestigious merit-based language scholarship for summer abroad, straight As on first semester transcript…still got rejected.  It became apparent that DS wasn’t what they were looking for.  Shrug.  
DS wasn’t a legacy, I know that they get a boost.  ED admissions rate was closer to 20% or so back then, it’s obviously dropped.
I’m sure your child will do well with other admissions, GL![/quote]

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