<p>The letter spelled out 75 picks and about 1000 on the waitlist, which isn’t so great, but, I am choosing to look at it this way:</p>
<p>1) They got 31,500 applications (most in school history).
2) They admitted 11% of those: about 3,400.
3) They put an additional 1,000 on the waitlist.
4) Which means they rejected 27,100 really strong applicants, and fortunately I made the cut and so did you guys if you’re posting up on this particular thread.<br>
5) So, Duke likes me right now but doesn’t LOVE me.</p>
<p>I got into Davidson College and I do believe that the quality of the undergraduate education is at least as good as that at Duke, possibly better, due to the fact that no graduate students teach classes at Davidson. </p>
<p>the kitesurfer.</p>