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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven’t heard of a school that didn’t have a 15% increase in early apps.[/quote]

Most of Duke’s peer schools did not, only Dartmouth was close to having that level of increase.

Harvard - 2% increase

UPenn - 3% increase

Columbia - 9% decrease (shocking)

Dartmouth - 14% increase (they went need-blind for internationals)

Yale - 6% increase

Duke - 20% increase[/quote]

This is your proof that you are not correctly classifying it’s peer schools.   Most of these schools already had an ED/REA acceptance rate lower than Duke’s this year.  Vanderbilt, Emory, Rice are way closer to a peer schools.

Also, Duke chose to take fewer kids ED this year, so that’s part of the reason for the decline.[/quote]

Emory? Lol. Duke and UPenn had the same ED acceptance rate this year (15%). Columbia just trended in the wrong direction (probably due to their admissions reporting scandal). Dartmouth accepted ~19% this year. Of course you can’t compare the early rates at Harvard and Yale because those are not binding. As an Ivy grad, Duke is absolutely our peer for undergrad, and it’s more selective than several of them. I wouldn’t really consider Emory a peer at all. Vanderbilt and Rice are great but I believe Duke stands above both quite comfortably[/quote]

Of course you can compare the early rates at Harvard and Yale, that’s a ridiculous rationalization.  MIT, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal tech and Princeton are the top tier.  Duke is with the lower Ivies, Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Chicago.  I think Rice is in this second tier as well.

5 year old, self reported cross admit victories are pretty meaningless.[/quote]

“Lower ivies” :roll: Vanderbilt and Hopkins are great but they’re not quite there. Maybe Chicago is[/quote]

Just your weekly reminder than Hopkins passed Duke in the US News rankings this year.    Also ranked higher than Duke in the Times global rankings.  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2023/world-ranking[/quote]

My DS likes JHU a lot but it’s kind of disingenuous to go the rankings route as your only point. If you look at 9/10 undergraduate rankings Duke is much higher than JHU. Once JHU falls behind Duke again in US News (US News keeps shifting things for views and clicks) your statement won’t hold unfortunately. Also Times Higher Education has an undergrad ranking which is the relevant one here: Duke is #5 and ahead of JHU. I tend to not like that one because my alma mater does worse on it than US News though :D [/quote]

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