What does it take to get into Duke?

Applying to College
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<p>I was just wondering.</p>

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<p>Very wealthy parents, in the cases I know of.</p>

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<p>yea, huge boost if parents are actors because they tend to raise up duke’s alumni donation count but good grades and ecs work also =D
edit: just some rumor that duke at some time heavily admitted actor’s offsprings</p>

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<p>Different for every school. At S’s high school it takes a 4.4 weighted GPA and 2300 SAT scores.</p>

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<p>At my S’s school you have just have to be a top athlete with an 89/100 GPA and 1300 SATs. (Oh, but that’s right, he flunked out.)</p>

<p>But seriously, here are the stats they report:</p>

<p>SAT scores (25/75 percentile):
Verbal:
670 – 760
Math:
690 – 780
Combined:
1360 – 1540 </p>

<p>ACT scores (25/75 percentile):
English:
N/A
Math:
N/A
Composite:
29 – 33</p>

<p>Top 10 percent of high school class:
88%
Top 25 percent of high school class:
97%
Top 50 percent of high school class:
99%</p>

<p>(No GPA reported.)</p>

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<p>Do you play lacrosse?</p>

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<p>babar, darkhope, suppasonic- Y’all are just a wealth of information, aren’t you?</p>

<p>CaveMan, there was an excellent Chronicle article outlining Duke admission last year- well worth a read. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.dukechronicle.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&uStory_id=c5931986-d830-4039-b727-e7f47a6ac061#more[/url]”>http://www.dukechronicle.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&uStory_id=c5931986-d830-4039-b727-e7f47a6ac061#more&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>cheer duke =D !</p>

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<p>ok ok ok ok darkhope what are you doing</p>

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<p>Duke’s the BEST, seriously.</p>

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<p>I don’t have great SAT scores (1300) or a great GPA 3.7 but I have pretty interesting story and when the Dean of Duke Medical School read one of those stories he decided to write me a letter of reccomendation to Duke and Princeton where he went to school for Undergrad and where his children go now.</p>

<p>Now I wait.</p>