Chance Me!! (Duke Legacy)

Houston1021
Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:11:36 +0000

My daughter had very similar stats to yours and a very similar list of schools. If your school has Naviance, it will be a very good predictor of your chances at these schools. All of the schools you list are extremely hard admits, with Emory perhaps being the easiest. Make sure you have a safety. Most of these schools, with the exception of Harvard and Yale, fill a large portion of the class with ED admits. in the past Rice did not fill as large a portion of its class ED as some of the other schools on your list, but the percentage went up to about 40% this year.

Legacies get extra consideration at Duke, but the value of the legacy card is in the ED round.https://alumni.duke.edu/benefits/admissions. If a legacy doesn’t ED, Duke assumes the legacy is unlikely to attend even if admitted. My daughter was a very strong legacy at Duke Her grandparents are big donors, named Duke in their estate, are Iron Dukes, have funded 2 named scholarships, live in Durham, etc. My husband is also a Duke graduate school alum. Duke was not my daughter’s first choice, but she applied RD. Perhaps her lack of enthusiasm and fit were apparent. She applied SCEA at Yale and was deferred. She was waitlisted at Duke. Other Duke legacy students in her high school class who did not have as high grades and scores as she did were admitted to Duke ED.

The same thing happened at Vanderbilt where she was also a legacy, although not as strong as at Duke. She applied RD to Vandy and was also waitlisted. Other Vandy legacy students in her class who did not have as high grades and scores as she did were admitted to Vandy ED. Vandy fills a very large part of its class ED1 and ED2. Brown, Northwestern and Emory do as well. Brown and NW have ED. Emory has ED1 and ED2 and the option of Emory College in Atlanta or the Oxford campus. You only have one early card so play it wisely.

She was admitted RD to Rice and Emory College. She enrolled in Rice and is very happy there.