Duke Deferral

sheldoncooperII
Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:46:22 +0000

Duke has been my dream school for ages, and I applied ED to Duke for the class of 2019, but got deferred. My stats are below. How is this possible?

ACT: 34 Composite: 34(34 M, 33R, 35S, 34E, 9 on essay)
SAT II: Chemistry: 780, US History: 800
UW GPA: 4.0 (All A’s since 9th grade)
10 AP’s by the end of High School (I’m counting Macro and Micro as one because they each only take up a semester).
AP Scores were: 5: bio, lang., calc AB, physics B 4:chemistry,us hist. .
Senior AP’s: Stats, Econ (Micro/Macro), Literature, French. Also taking introductory spanish (for fun) and astronomy
Extracurriculars:
4 years of Track and Field (not very good)
4 years of Cross Country
4 years in key Club
4 years in Student government (treasurer for the past three)
3 years in Model United Nations
2 years in Math Honor Society
Awards: National Merit Semifinalist
My only disciplinary infraction was a detention sophomore year for chewing gum. Could that be a reason?
Average suburban public school (really not much to say about it)
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