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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can we stop shaming the Aspies already?

Because essentially that's what they're saying. Technically-focused neurodivergent students who may or may not be diagnosed are very valuable. Our global economy depends on innovation, and this is the cohort that drives it. The emotionally and socially connected are the glue that holds our society together, and they will always tend to be more successful in their lives, due to their superior social skills... so I don't know why we're attacking the ones that contribute to progress and are less social. On the contrary, we should be supporting them!

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A school filled with them is a nightmare.[/quote]
Does anyone seriously believe that duke is filled with neurodivergent students. Its reputation alone is enough to drive many away.[/quote]

Its definitely gotten nerdy, which its clear they don't necessarily like. Read a bunch of the interim AO interviews in various Duke publications. Or listen to her speak. They've identified some issues to appease other constituent groups inside the university.[/quote]

Duke is "nerdier" than it used to be but so are most top schools! Look at the data. The SAT percentiles from the 1990 had less than 1/4 of students with 98-99th percentile scores, 2020 they had 3/4(pre-test optional). A couple of ivies were 50% 98-99th %ile in 1990 but all have become skewed to the top end. Hence the grade inflation they all started around the 2010s. Anytime you have a student population with 3/4 in the top 1-2% and a significant subset of them the top 0.1%, neurodivergence will be higher than at a school with a distribution like UNC or NCSU.
Duke is no nerdier or more intense/driven than most of the ivies, and in fact is less than at least 5 of them. Duke is not trying to be less stem they are trying to expand the engineering and stem, and have emphasized science in particular in the current fundraising campaign! 
They are trying to ensure they have true humanities kids , most recently by targeting them for transfer spots, and they are separately trying to ensure that a large portion of the stem students they get have interests outside of stem, such as community volunteering, arts, etcetera.  In other words, Duke is playing catchup to the game the ivies have been playing for a few years. Unidimensional stem kids are not typically a good fit for Duke or ivies!
Duke 100% wants to continue to get the intellectually curious kids, they want the subset with multifaceted interests.
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