<p>…the strength of the high school performance record. Period.</p>
<p>Everything else is secondary to: a) did you take the hardest classes available to you? b) how did you DO in those classes? c) did you gain mastery in a particular subject? (ie, did you exhaust all possible years taken of a foreign language? </p>
<p>What can you do to improve your weighted average? That weighted score is a bit low in my opinion. </p>
<p>Certainly, I don’t think you need to really ‘improve’ anything outside of that. If you can. </p>
<p>And in the end, at Duke it’s really a numbers game; they get about 26,000 apps per year and it’s always refreshing to think of it this way: you’re an elite student and you’re going to shine wherever you land. That’s the truth looking at your profile!</p>
<p>Instead, spend some time before high school gets cranked back up thinking about a way to cure cancer! You can learn to work on this in college and you don’t have to be at Duke to do that. Good luck bro, just go for it. </p>
<p>the kitesurfer.</p>