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[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]

Another Ivy grad checking in here. I agree that Duke is our peer. There's a LinkedIn group named "Alumni of the Ivy League: Ivy & Oxford Cambridge MIT Stanford [b]Duke[/b] Berkeley Chicago." At the graduate level though, it's debatable. Duke isn't included in the IvyPlus Exchange Scholar Program (Ivy, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Chicago), for example.[/quote]
Why would Berkeley be included in that? [/quote]

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