<p>It has some cross-admit state vis a vis other schools in it.</p>
<p>An exerpt:</p>
<p>"Based on acceptance rates, Duke continues to fall behind a few choice schools in terms of selectivity. Against five of those schools in particular, Duke faces substantial recruiting obstacles. According to matriculation data, Duke is successful in wooing to campus only about 15 percent of those admitted students who are also accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, or Stanford. Against the next group–Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Penn–Duke does better, enrolling about 50 percent. In recruiting battles against the third five–Georgetown, Chicago, Washington University, Northwestern, and Cornell–Duke is successful about 80 percent of the time.</p>
<p>Those percentages, Lange and Guttentag say, have not changed much over the years. Guttentag explains that although some of the numbers against individual competitors vary year to year, it is tough to make significant progress because the rest of the schools are all getting better, too. “There are few schools,” he says, “that recruit more aggressively than Harvard.”</p>