<p>A kid at my school says he got into Duke a month and a half ago. He is just an average student, parents aren’t legacy, no sports or anything like that.</p>
<p>Can there be any merit to this claim?</p>
<p>Yeah, he’s claiming that a girl he works with has a sister in the admissions office too.</p>
<p>There are a couple of reasons why an applicant may have heard back a while ago. If he’s Black, he may have been invited to the BSAI weekend. He may have been invited to Duke Up-Close (but that’s unlikely if he’s not a stand-out student). He also may have been a finalist for any of the scholarships.</p>
<p>recruited athlete?</p>
<p>Not black, not an athlete. Just an average (way below average for Duke) white male. Not even rich or anything like that.</p>
<p>His entire claim is that he got in because a girl he works with has a sister in the admissions office. Even if that was true, I don’t see how it would get him in 6 weeks before anyone else got a decision.</p>
<p>Maybe he is the relative of a development alum.</p>
<p>Hush, hazmat, that wouldn’t explain the fact that he got his decision early and I’m pretty sure you know it. (It would, however, explain a strange decision at the normal time.)</p>
<p>No, I don’t think there’s merit to the claim.</p>
<p>Duq(uesne)</p>