Duke overall acceptance rate?

bluedog
Wed, 24 Apr 2019 13:54:45 +0000

Let’s do some math…According to the linked article, 41,600 students applied overall. 882 were accepted early. Duke accepted 2101 students regular: https://today.duke.edu/2019/03/welcoming-dukes-class-2023-and-its-record-engagement-and-results

So, 2101+882 = 2983 students accepted overall divided by 41,600 total applications = 7.2% overall admission rate!

However, there is something inconsistent with the figures provided by the Chronicle. They state there were 41,600 overall applicants, but the ED article says 4852 applicants and the RD article says “37,761 applying under the Regular Decision program,” so that would indicate 42,613 total applicants. Not sure why the difference…They probably forgot to subtract out the deferred applicants in some capacity, not sure. If there were 42,613 total applicants and 2983 acceptances, that would lead to an acceptance rate of 7.0%.

Of course, some students were/will be accepted on the waitlist so those figures could change a bit.