@mjut02 @DrSenioritis When I first read your post, I thought, hmmm … no. But then I remembered, I did get such a letter regarding my DD’s RD application. I do not know if the other legacies in our family received them, as well. I did not read anything into it regarding my daughter individually. We met with the alumni contact in the admissions office (Carole Levine) who was in the process (last April) of calling all the legacy families who didn’t get an acceptance. I think the letter was just a form letter to ALL relavent families to not assume admissions based on legacy.
Oops … clarification in my post above … She was not calling all the legacy families!! She was returning calls from many disappointed legacy families whose kid had not been accepted.
@lifeguard77 I’m not sure much is a deal breaker, but we were told that the SAT subject tests were very important, especially if you didn’t take the ACT with Writing. My daughter did the latter (ACT w writing) and those results were better thanthe subject tests, so she did not submit the subject test scores.
Received an email this afternoon stating decisions were coming out March 26th.
“I want to let you know that Regular Decision applicants to Duke University will be able to view their admissions decisions online beginning 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday, March 26, 2020. Financial Aid decisions will also be available online at that time for those whose applications were complete.”
Well… its going to be a long 4 days…
@kisauren I did not receive that email. Is it a sign or what?
Not a sign at all. Same thing has happened with other schools like uchicago where some kids received emails before decisions were released and others didn’t. It had no correlation with acceptances. You probably haven’t received one yet due to the magnitude of emails sent.
My son too has not received the email.
It definitely does not mean anything. People were speculating about this in the UChicago thread and it meant nothing. Do not worry if you did not get the email.
Don’t read anything into that at all. They send it to every alum who has a relative applying. My kids are both current Duke students and we got that letter for both of them. The acceptance rate for legacies is steadily decreasing, so they don’t want anyone to overestimate their chances of admission.
I took the ACT with writing and got a 31 (pretty decent in my book) because I took the SAT and only got a 1280 (1310 superscored). I also took the SAT subject tests because some of my schools required them or strongly recommended them, but I didn’t do too well (540 on lit and 600 on math). I sent them to the schools who required them obviously, but I also sent them to every school I applied to because I figured it would look good that I took them at all even if I didn’t get a highish score. Was that a mistake? At the time of applying I thought that showing the schools that I took the tests at all would be better but now I’m having second thoughts. Obviously I can’t do anything at this point but I just wanted to know what you guys thought about it.
Definitely freaking out rn. I was reading some info on Duke tonight, and it is predicted that Duke is going to have an acceptance rate of around 5% since they accepted 51% of the incoming freshman class for 2024 through ED. Good luck to everyone though 
I don’t understand why they can’t accept us all…
Did anyone get the Duke TIP email? If so, do you know what it means/what’s it’s for? I don’t remember signing up for anything special so I don’t know why I got the email?
@sassycassie5896 I got that email too, but I don’t think it means anything
@krazykittykat
That’s bad. Not everyone can afford Duke to apply ED. I guess I have to take a rejection this time. But I would be really grateful if I get in.
It’s possible that some of the students who were accepted ED back in December won’t be in the same financial situation now and may not be in a position financially to enroll at Duke. There could also be some attrition at all colleges if some students may not be able to afford to return. Maybe a lot of schools, including Duke, will waitlist more than usual?
What is a TIP email?
It’s Duke’s Talent Identification Program. Summer program for 4th - 7th graders. My daughter received this email. Obviously a mistake by Duke to send these out to college applicants.
@krazykittykat I think that 51% may have been a typo?? I got this about early decision from Duke Chronicle…
Duke accepted 21% of the Early Decision applicants to the Class of 2024, offering admission to only 887 high school seniors out of the 4,300 that applied. This marks the first time since the Class of 2021 that the acceptance rate has increased from year-to-year.Jan 20, 2020
It still puts those of us who found it too much of a risk to commit without know having financial aid information at a disadvantage for sure, but it was actually 21% compared to 51% that you stated. Good luck to everyone tomorrow!
Not a typo. My rough estimate is about 50% of the class of 2024 will be coming from ED. That leaves half the class to be filled by RD. Since the yield for Duke in RD is about 50%, they will only be accepting about 2,100 applicants of which about 1,050 will matriculate (50% yield). 2,100 / 37,000 RD applicants = 5.6% RD acceptance rate. The overall acceptance rate for ED+RD is approximately 9.7% (887+2,100/41,000).