Editing Duke University (section)

=== Undergraduate admissions ===

{{Infobox U.S. college admissions|year=2028|ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=https://finance.provost.duke.edu/sites/default/files/u21/CDS_2020-2021.pdf |title=Common Data Set 2020–2021 |publisher=Duke University |access-date=March 18, 2022}}</ref>
|change ref=<ref>{{cite web |url=https://finance.provost.duke.edu/sites/default/files/u24/CDS_2015-2016.pdf |title=Common Data Set 2015–2016 |publisher=Duke University |access-date=March 31, 2025}}</ref>
|admit rate=5.1%
|admit rate change=-1.2
|yield rate=59.4%
|yield rate change=+9.2
|SAT Total=1520–1570
|SAT Total change=+20
|ACT=34–35
|ACT change=+1.0|float=right}}

Admission to Duke is defined by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' as "most selective." Duke received nearly 55,000 applications for the Class of 2028, with an overall acceptance rate of 5.1%.<ref name="2028 stats">{{cite web |title=Duke admits record-low 4.1% of RD applicants to Class of 2028, overall acceptance rate 5.1% |url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/03/duke-university-admissions-admits-record-low-4-1-regular-decision-applicants-class-of-2028-overall-acceptance-rate-5-1-early-decision-supreme-court-ruling-undergraduates|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519052913/https://today.duke.edu/2021/04/duke-university-sees-record-increase-undergraduate-applications |archive-date=May 19, 2021 |access-date=May 19, 2021 |website=Duke Today}}</ref> The [[Yield (college admissions)|yield rate]] (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend) for the Class of 2023 was 54%.<ref name="Admissions">{{cite web|url=http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/02/duke-breaks-its-record-for-number-of-applications-received-staying-on-par-with-peer-schools|title=Duke Breaks its Record for Number of Applications Received|first=Jake|last=Satisky|work=Duke Chronicle|access-date=February 22, 2018|archive-date=February 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223075726/http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2018/02/duke-breaks-its-record-for-number-of-applications-received-staying-on-par-with-peer-schools|url-status=live}}</ref> The Class of 2024 had a median ACT range of 34–35 and an SAT range of 1500–1570.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://admissions.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2024-Class-Profile.pdf |title=Data |website=admissions.duke.edu |access-date=April 2, 2021 |archive-date=April 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415084338/https://admissions.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2024-Class-Profile.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> (Test score ranges account for the 25th–75th percentile of accepted students.) During the 2020-21 academic year, Duke began adopting a test-optional policy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://today.duke.edu/2020/06/statement-duke-going-test-optional-admissions-2021|title=Statement on Duke Going Test Optional for Admissions in 2021|date=June 17, 2020|website=Duke Today|publisher=Duke University|access-date=April 18, 2025}}</ref>

[[File:Divinitychapelduke.jpg|left|thumb|alt=Cathedral-sized arched and intricate windows on chapel are displayed prominently in the foreground with larger soaring chapel peaking out at the top|Part of the Divinity School addition, Goodson Chapel]]

From 2001 to 2011, Duke has had the sixth highest number of [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright]], [[Rhodes Scholarship|Rhodes]], [[Truman Scholars|Truman]], and [[Barry Goldwater#Goldwater Scholarship|Goldwater]] scholarships in the nation among private universities.<ref>[http://www.rhodesscholar.org/ Recently Elected U.S. Rhodes Scholars] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081127023641/http://www.rhodesscholar.org/ |date=November 27, 2008}}. The Rhodes Trust. Retrieved January 12, 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gatesscholar.org/our-scholars/Profile.aspx?ScholarID=5086|title=Duke Gates Scholar 2007|publisher=The Gates Cambridge Scholarship|access-date=July 4, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003064959/http://www.gatesscholar.org/our-scholars/Profile.aspx?ScholarID=5086|archive-date=October 3, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051019074617/http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2005/09/fulbright05.html Twenty-two Duke Graduates, Grad Students Receive Fulbright Scholarships]. ''Duke News & Communications'', September 26, 2005. Retrieved January 12, 2011.</ref><ref>
Dunning, Denise. [http://dukechronicle.com/node/108607 Trinity Juniors receive Truman scholarships.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305233647/http://dukechronicle.com/node/108607 |date=March 5, 2011}} ''The Chronicle'', March 22, 1996. Retrieved May 23, 2011.
</ref> The university practices [[need-blind admission]]s and meets 100% of admitted students' demonstrated needs. About 50 percent of all Duke students receive some form of financial aid, which includes need-based aid, athletic aid, and merit aid. The average need-based grant for the 2019–20 academic year was $54,255.<ref name=Facts/> In 2020, a study by the [[Chronicle of Higher Education]] ranked Duke first on its list of "Colleges That Are the Most Generous to the Financially Neediest Students."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Colleges-That-Are-the-Most/247915|title=Colleges That Are the Most Generous to the Financially Neediest Students|website=The Chronicle of Higher Education|date=January 26, 2020 |access-date=February 14, 2020|archive-date=March 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200317154048/https://www.chronicle.com/article/colleges-that-are-the-most/247915|url-status=live}}</ref>

Roughly 60 merit-based full-tuition scholarships are offered, including the Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship awarded for academic excellence, the Benjamin N. Duke Scholarship awarded for community service, and the [[Robertson Scholars Program|Robertson Scholars Leadership Program]], a joint scholarship and leadership development program granting full student privileges at both Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. Other scholarships are geared toward students in North Carolina, African-American students, children of alumni, and high-achieving students requiring financial aid.<ref name="finaidstats">[http://dukefinancialaid.duke.edu/undergraduate/stats/index.html Financial Aid Statistics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110506215247/http://dukefinancialaid.duke.edu/undergraduate/stats/index.html |date=May 6, 2011}}. Duke Financial Aid. Retrieved May 3, 2011.</ref>

Duke's president, [[Vincent Price (educator)|Vincent Price]], has described efforts to ban [[Legacy preferences|legacy admissions]] as "troublesome".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Saul |first=Stephanie |date=July 13, 2022 |title=The Quiet Fight to Keep Legacy Admissions |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/us/legacy-admissions-colleges-universities.html |access-date=July 13, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=President Price discusses Duke's centennial, legacy admissions, DKU in annual address to Academic Council |url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2022/03/duke-university-academic-council-centennial-2024-legacy-admissions-early-decision-russia-ukraine-sciences-humanities |access-date=July 13, 2022 |website=The Chronicle}}</ref> A 2022 survey by [[Duke Chronicle|The Chronicle]] found about 22% of first-year students were the child or sibling of a Duke alumnus.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Class of 2025's paths to Duke based on family background, type of high school, among other factors |url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2022/01/duke-university-class-of-2025-first-year-survey-paths-to-duke-chronicle |access-date=July 13, 2022 |website=The Chronicle}}</ref>