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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's an inside look from Selingo in New York Magazine of Duke's process, where the admissions dean says you have to go beyond the high school curriculum: When Guttentag at Duke reviews applications, he orders them by high school so that he understands the curriculum available to a particular group of students. The majority of applicants have competitive transcripts, he said, but one consequence of the huge increase in applications is that far fewer of them “knock your socks off.”

A decade ago, admissions officers at Duke regularly talked about a “wall of 5s” among applicants on Advanced Placement tests — the top score. “You’d just see this long list of eight or ten or 12 5s on AP scores,” Guttentag recalled. “That’s the sort of thing that would by itself have moved the needle and now doesn’t.”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/inside-the-craziest-college-admissions-season-ever.html
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So then, what exactly does work for Duke?
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