Anonymous wrote:Too expensive for the degree at a non IVY

But Duke is better than half the ivies...

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Anonymous wrote:Most parents I know feel like no one ever gets in w/o being a recruit, so it's not worth the time to do the application.

Yale just announced a record high applicant pool at nearly 50,000 RD apps, and Duke and Yale have about the same acceptance rate. Wonder why Yale wouldn't have experienced a drop in applicants too.

Because apparently cold, slightly depressing New England towns are the new Southern school!

Too expensive for the degree at a non IVY

Anonymous wrote:Most parents I know feel like no one ever gets in w/o being a recruit, so it's not worth the time to do the application.

Yale just announced a record high applicant pool at nearly 50,000 RD apps, and Duke and Yale have about the same acceptance rate. Wonder why Yale wouldn't have experienced a drop in applicants too.

Most parents I know feel like no one ever gets in w/o being a recruit, so it's not worth the time to do the application.

Anonymous wrote:People know they aren’t getting in?

This. Kids wrote it off at our school the last 2 years.

Anonymous wrote:I honestly think people saw Duke had a 30% increase in ED applicants, got a bit freaked out, and scrubbed their idea of getting in RD.

Agree.

Because they had that huge increase in ED?

They received 6240 ED applications, an increase of over 1000 from the prior cycle. So even with the ED bump they were net net down for the entire cycle. I would doubt anyone is worried there, it is a really hard get.

https://today.duke.edu/2023/12/duke-sees-record-number-applications-early-admission

Also read this, Duke is one of the least economically diverse schools. I wonder if people have wised up to that fact.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/07/magazine/duke-economic-diversity.html

And P.S. rough days for basketball post-Coach K, the bump for sports is well documented in higher ed.

I have no other insight or horse here, just interesting to see.

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I honestly think people saw Duke had a 30% increase in ED applicants, got a bit freaked out, and scrubbed their idea of getting in RD.

That's odd. Penn had a jump from 8,000 to 8,800 ED applicants and overall applications jumped from 59,500 to 65,000.

I thought Duke was the "hot" school.

Didn't they have a big spike in ED applicants? Things even out.

People know they aren’t getting in?

After over 44,000 RD applicants last year, Duke received less than 40,000 this year. Any thoughts?