financial aid statistics

mom2collegekids
Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:55:44 +0000

does anyone know what the past amount of finanical aid students were getting at Duke University? And the percent of students who got financial aid.

Those numbers don’t mean anything to you. Duke is a full need school for domestic students. The amounts that anyone gets depends on **their **financial situation - not yours.

You have to “demonstrate need.” Duke could be the most generous school on the planet, but if they look at your family’s income and assets and determine that you don’t need much aid or don’t need any aid, then you won’t get much or any.

As for SAT and GPA req’ts…looking at Collegeboard should give you that info. However, those stats are no guarantees for admission, since those schools reject a lot of qualified applicants.

For instance…at Duke

Test Scores Middle 50% of First-Year Students Percent Who Submitted Scores

SAT Critical Reading: 660 - 750
SAT Math: 680 - 780
SAT Writing: 660 - 760
ACT Composite: 30 - 34

The students who fall below those numbers are usually special admits…athletes, students from unusual states or countries, URMs, etc

It helps to have stats above these numbers - then you’re in the upper quartile.