<p>When will RD applicants find out? Is it by email or what?</p>
<p>IDK but I hope they send out likely letters soooon/that I get one</p>
<p>The Duke site says you’ll hear in “early April.”</p>
<p>In the days leading up to the release of ED decisions, Admissions emailed each applicant a unique username and password that he or she would use to log onto <a href=“https://app.applyyourself.com/?id=duke-u[/url]”>https://app.applyyourself.com/?id=duke-u</a>, Duke’s decision portal.</p>
<p>last year it was the end of march</p>
<p>you can search late March and find last year’s date via the Postings here from back then.</p>
<p>I’m guessing April 1st. </p>
<p>And before anyone starts grilling me for sources, let me reemphasize - I’m guessing.</p>
<p>I think it was like the 26th or 27th of March last year</p>
<p>^The website specifies early April for this year.</p>
<p>all websites say early April…reality is late March…look up last year’s acceptance date and you may have an estimate of this year’s date…search this forum for March and see last year’s crowd posting decisions plus stats</p>
<p>Ivies generally have the release date of March 31st and Duke is about 2-3 days before (Stanford usually releases around the same time as Duke… but last year if I remember correctly, Stanford also released on March 31).</p>
<p>@eatsalot: Stanford has a confirmed release date (even a time) this year.</p>
<p>And gosh, it’s not like a few days here and there matter that much. You could just hope for an earlier release (late-March) and mentally prepare yourself for a later one (early-April). I know that I won’t be making my decision until at least April 1st (which is when the majority of the schools on my 18-strong list are releasing decisions) so a few days to let whatever news comes first settle in is not a bad thing to me.</p>
<p>You applied to 18 schools??? Wow! What is the average number that kids apply to?</p>
<p>Our Duke grad 09 applied to seven schools…and that was considered very excessive in his hometown…four of his colleges were good match colleges, three were reach colleges.
everyone has different circumstances. He was not admitted to his biggest crush college.</p>
<p>He would have been proud to attend any of them in all honesty. The Duke admission was a total surprise outcome…unexpected. Always best to respect your match college and to picture yourself doing very well there.</p>
<p>that said, I am told that all his children will be Blue Devils 4ever–totally loves his Alma mater and the friends he made at Duke</p>
<p>does Duke send likely letters to non-athletes? if so, when?</p>
<p>^Yes, Duke sends them to about the top 300 applicants or something of that sort. If I remember correctly, they came out late February to early March my year.</p>
<p>@hoping4duke: I have an unusual GPA progression and while I think I can get into at least one or two of my reaches, applying widely was my only way of knowing for sure.</p>
<p>My son applied to 15 colleges … LOL</p>
<p>2-3 were safety, 2-3 good fits, and the rest reach … let’s be realistic: even with an SAT score of 1600/2390 and GPA >4.0 (my son’s grades) you can’t <em>expect</em> to get into the Ivies, Duke, Stanford, etc … so he applied to many ‘dream’ schools. He has no ‘research’ activity in his resume, so CalTech’s denial and MIT’s deferral didn’t come as a huge surprise …
For the interview, I ‘prepared’ him to not mention ALL the schools he applied to - give 4-5, and definitely mention that Duke is one of the top-choices if not THE top-choice … :-)</p>
<p>Yeah I definitely think not mentioning other schools is a good idea 
And I’ve tried to make it clear that whichever school I’m interviewing with is my primary choice.</p>
<p>My son applied to 18 schools. Same concept - 3 safety; 3 good fit and 12 “dream” schools. Got into two of the good fit so we now he waits for the “dream” schools. It’s a win-win - student gives it a shot; top universities get an even lower acceptance rate for their US News ratings.</p>