2008-2009 Duke Secondary Application Thread

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It seems to me that they are trying to time the reception of the snail-mail acceptances with their release of the rejection/waitlist emails. I would think that acceptees who live in Durham will receive their acceptances tomorrow, so if they're timing it according to that, I would expect everything else to go out tomorrow. If they're timing it for more distant places, then it should go out Saturday (probably when they will get to California). My guess is that everything will be released tomorrow, though, since they probably place more importance on their undergraduates receiving news. Also, didn't someone say that they would also send out emails inviting acceptees to second-look? So that, effectively, everyone finds out at the same time (and fear of losing your letter in the mail is unwarranted)?
 
oh my gosh i love duke, and I am scared of what will be coming up in the next few days....
 
If we're gonna be on here, we might as well be entertained, right? What else is Youtube for if not killing time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY9iRRNvZfs

(surprisingly good)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiol3BhyGgI&feature=related

(pretty painful at times)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcv34mnNjUE&feature=related

(can’t really understand the words)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y8G4s1yxi0&feature=related

(favorite)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8QZwqhax9o&feature=related
(be glad you’re not this guy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS3Joy1rd3o&feature=related
(informative)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiLtuzJuit4&feature=related
(only one that required actual talent)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7oqrvZ3we0&feature=related
(somewhat embarrassed that I liked this)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50BcHxPKT2A&feature=related
(cojones muy grande for doing this live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZkllM8znx4
(Because it needed to be done)
 
Jack28 said:
It seems to me that they are trying to time the reception of the snail-mail acceptances with their release of the rejection/waitlist emails. I would think that acceptees who live in Durham will receive their acceptances tomorrow, so if they're timing it according to that, I would expect everything else to go out tomorrow. If they're timing it for more distant places, then it should go out Saturday (probably when they will get to California). My guess is that everything will be released tomorrow, though, since they probably place more importance on their undergraduates receiving news. Also, didn't someone say that they would also send out emails inviting acceptees to second-look? So that, effectively, everyone finds out at the same time (and fear of losing your letter in the mail is unwarranted)?
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It would seem that's the case and that my guess that everything would be gotten out at once was completely wrong. See what you get for listening to me, all you who listened to me? 😛
 
did someone check last year's thread?
i couldn't find it.
 
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hellosc said:
how did you find out? did they tell u during the interviews?
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Well, it's this really cool formula.

31.5% interview
14.8% EC's
25.4% GPA
30.3% MCAT

As you can see, the interview is very important.

Interview is scored on a 0-10 scale for
Personality
Compassion
Confidence
Personal Appearance
Quality of Responses
Degree of Preparation
General Impression

This is then scaled to 100 points (multiplied by 10/7)

EC's are 5 groups of activities that are scored out of 10
Leadership
Research
Medical Exposure
Volunteering
Other (music, sports etc)
This score is doubled to be out of 100

GPA is scaled from 4.0 to a 100 point scale (multiplied by 25)

MCAT +writing score is out of 50 by making the letter grade a score out of 5. This is multiplied by 2 to get a score out of 100

Then the percentages above are applied and they find a cutoff line using excel or some other mathematical software.

The wait is usually due to the fact that EC's and interviews are difficult to score.
 
dmargul said:
Well, it's this really cool formula.

31.5% interview
14.8% EC's
25.4% GPA
30.3% MCAT

As you can see, the interview is very important.

Interview is scored on a 0-10 scale for
Personality
Compassion
Confidence
Personal Appearance
Quality of Responses
Degree of Preparation
General Impression

This is then scaled to 100 points (multiplied by 10/7)

EC's are 5 groups of activities that are scored out of 10
Leadership
Research
Medical Exposure
Volunteering
Other (music, sports etc)
This score is doubled to be out of 100

GPA is scaled from 4.0 to a 100 point scale (multiplied by 25)

MCAT +writing score is out of 50 by making the letter grade a score out of 5. This is multiplied by 2 to get a score out of 100

Then the percentages above are applied and they find a cutoff line using excel or some other mathematical software.

The wait is usually due to the fact that EC's and interviews are difficult to score.
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You were totally selling it until those percentages added to 102%, not 100%. Sad. Besides, the GPA counts 5% MORE than the MCAT in the real formula.
 
nevercold said:
You were totally selling it until those percentages added to 102%, not 100%. Sad. Besides, the GPA counts 5% MORE than the MCAT in the real formula.
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OMG DOES IT REALLY COUNT FOR 5% MORE???!?!! HOW DO YOU KNOW?!?!?!?

I was hoping nobody caught the 102%, so then I could go back to it and make more fun of them 😛.

And hellosc...did you seriously believe me? 😛

You all need to learn how to relax a bit, seriously. Wasn't there an essay about dealing with stressful situations for Duke? Did you make up your answers? lololol 😛
 
Jack28 said:
If we're gonna be on here, we might as well be entertained, right? What else is Youtube for if not killing time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY9iRRNvZfs

(surprisingly good)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiol3BhyGgI&feature=related

(pretty painful at times)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcv34mnNjUE&feature=related

(can’t really understand the words)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y8G4s1yxi0&feature=related

(favorite)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8QZwqhax9o&feature=related
(be glad you’re not this guy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS3Joy1rd3o&feature=related
(informative)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiLtuzJuit4&feature=related
(only one that required actual talent)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7oqrvZ3we0&feature=related
(somewhat embarrassed that I liked this)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50BcHxPKT2A&feature=related
(cojones muy grande for doing this live)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZkllM8znx4
(Because it needed to be done)
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jack28, whoever you are.....i think i love you.
europe made my night....
 
31.5% haha followed by that monster post... this tread is getting heated.. that mixed with the fact that a few of us are on here at 3am says we really need to just hear already!
 
mmagnett said:
31.5% haha followed by that monster post... this tread is getting heated.. that mixed with the fact that a few of us are on here at 3am says we really need to just hear already!
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4:08am where i am...still cant sleep, too anxious...this is the forth night in a row that i've inexplicably woken up at an ungodly hour....
while it is good prep for med school, i agree that we all DEFINITELY need to hear soon...
 
who's right?
who's calling tomorrow if we don't hear?
 
Any news on when the e-mail will go out -- Today or Monday?
 
I thought the admissions office said they would email out by the end of this week???
 
called the admissions office to see if there was a point to updating my snail mail address since I am on SB next week.. to quote the person who answered "all admissions decisions have already been sent"

thats it. no elaboration. i diddn't want to pester so i just said thnx and hung up.
 
I just called the Office of Admissions. They said that all letters of acceptance were mailed yesterday by standard USPS. All notifications of denials and waitlists were emailed earlier today.

I asked her to confirm that if I have not yet received an email does that mean I should be expecting an letter in the mail. She said yes.

SO, if you don't have anything in your inbox, look forward to checking your mail in the next couple of days...
 
aquamarine said:
can that be true? no one on SDN has received any emails...?

glitch in the system perhaps?
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Yeah...I'd concur with the latter.

Edit: I wouldn't be surprised if there is a delay from when Duke sends the emails to when its recipients get them consider that the interview invites often came during very weird times (mine was early morning on a Saturday).
 
irishpc said:
I just called the Office of Admissions. They said that all letters of acceptance were mailed yesterday by standard USPS. All notifications of denials and waitlists were emailed earlier today.

I asked her to confirm that if I have not yet received an email does that mean I should be expecting an letter in the mail. She said yes.

SO, if you don't have anything in your inbox, look forward to checking your mail in the next couple of days...
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lol this better not be some joke ...
 
You gotta be kidding me - it seems that none of us have receiving e-mails yet.
 
Well if there were a delay or quarantine then it wouldn't effect Duke undergraduates who have a Duke account.

linguini said:
Yeah...I'd concur with the latter.

Edit: I wouldn't be surprised if there is a delay from when Duke sends the emails to when its recipients get them consider that the interview invites often came during very weird times (mine was early morning on a Saturday).
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I agree with "glitch in the system."

As fantastic as SDN-ers are, I don't think ALL of us were accepted at Duke. Maybe there's some delay in the e-mail servers ...
 
Someone should call and confirm the above...just to make sure it's not a joke. 🙂
 
irishpc said:
I just called the Office of Admissions. They said that all letters of acceptance were mailed yesterday by standard USPS. All notifications of denials and waitlists were emailed earlier today.

I asked her to confirm that if I have not yet received an email does that mean I should be expecting an letter in the mail. She said yes.

SO, if you don't have anything in your inbox, look forward to checking your mail in the next couple of days...
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Could somebody call and confirm this? LET? Shemarty?
 
I'm gonna call BS magazine on the above post.


AtG
 
well, i guess they took aamc's words to heart and decided to increase their class size to 800. Proactive way to tackle that physician shortage!!
 
i just called and talked to janeen in admissions. emails were just sent out. letters were mailed yesterday. it may take the servers some time to get everything out, so don't freak out if you haven't gotten an email...it may still be coming. instead, do what i'm doing and frantically refresh gmail until the mailman comes
 
Sorry, didn't mean to get everyone into a fit about that. Just wanted to share what I heard.
 
Yeah, i'm going to need confirmation by someone with demonstrated neuroses before I believe this. Get to work, people, you know who you are.
 
its the truth. call them yourself 🙂 this is to stressful to screw around with
 
Maybe it takes time for them to personalize the letters?
 
irishtackle66 said:
its the truth. call them yourself 🙂 this is to stressful to screw around with
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Not true. I thought about reporting a rejection since last Friday just to annoy people, but decided against it because it would completely undermine my reason for being here. Even if I did confirm it, no one here would believe me because I've been posting for all of 4 days (which is the same reason they shouldn't believe you).
 
well for the sake of everyone's sanity on this forum, i wish someone who people know would get brave and call. they were actually very nice about it! though i suppose thinking this is a joke would probably be less stressful, since you wouldn't be sure decisions have been made and sent.

in any case, good luck everyone!
 
to all you potential firsties.. i'm a 4th year Duke Med student and just wanted to wish you all the best..
 
irishtackle66 said:
well for the sake of everyone's sanity on this forum, i wish someone who people know would get brave and call. they were actually very nice about it! though i suppose thinking this is a joke would probably be less stressful, since you wouldn't be sure decisions have been made and sent.

in any case, good luck everyone!
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I didn't believe it either, but it's true. I just called and said "I'm trying to find out when and how we would be notified about acceptances" and a very friendly woman replied "Acceptances have been mailed out. Rejections and waitlists have been emailed out." I said "HAVE BEEN??" and she said "yes, have been sent."

I know I'm not that credible a source either, since I'm not a regular poster here. I recommend calling. 919-684-2985.

Good luck everyone!!!
 
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