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Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants!

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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   20 Mar 2009, 15:40
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WOW. I got my admit package in the mail yesterday and was surprised and delighted to find that Duke offered me a very hefty merit scholarship. I'm still in a state of shock :punk



What do you consider "hefty"? I got $8000/yr, and consider that pretty useless given that the education costs almost $130,000.


18,000/year -- 18/50 (tutition only) = 36% savings so I view 36% scholarship as very generous, considering I wasn't expecting a scholarship at all!!! :bouncer


I wonder what it takes to get Duke to give a student the full $135k it costs to go there. These small scholarships barely make a dent in the fees. Even with your $36k, you're still going to pay them almost $100k.
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   20 Mar 2009, 17:36
What do you consider "hefty"? I got $8000/yr, and consider that pretty useless given that the education costs almost $130,000.[/quote]

18,000/year -- 18/50 (tutition only) = 36% savings so I view 36% scholarship as very generous, considering I wasn't expecting a scholarship at all!!! :bouncer[/quote]

I wonder what it takes to get Duke to give a student the full $135k it costs to go there. These small scholarships barely make a dent in the fees. Even with your $36k, you're still going to pay them almost $100k.[/quote]

I'm sorry to hear that 36% off barely makes a dent to you. For me that was great news as I wasn't expecting anything and I'm very appreciative that Duke would be so generous!
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   20 Mar 2009, 18:28
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Regardless of what people say: the $18k is AWESOME, you should be PROUD of it, and it will DEFINITELY help out with your overall finances. Congrats!

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I'm sorry to hear that 36% off barely makes a dent to you. For me that was great news as I wasn't expecting anything and I'm very appreciative that Duke would be so generous!
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   20 Mar 2009, 19:41
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Regardless of what people say: the $18k is AWESOME, you should be PROUD of it, and it will DEFINITELY help out with your overall finances. Congrats!

smokedpotatoes2 wrote:
I'm sorry to hear that 36% off barely makes a dent to you. For me that was great news as I wasn't expecting anything and I'm very appreciative that Duke would be so generous!


I agree - that's awesome!! congrats! :D
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   21 Mar 2009, 04:42
Congrats smokedpotatoes2! 1/3 tuition is a great scholarship to have.
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   22 Mar 2009, 12:04
I (finally) declined the Duke offer of admission.

Congrats to those attending and good luck to those still waiting on decisions!

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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   22 Mar 2009, 14:36
where are you heading, isa?
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   22 Mar 2009, 15:19
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where are you heading, isa?


Still TBD - I'll hopefully know in two weeks :)
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   23 Mar 2009, 08:55
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where are you heading, isa?


Still TBD - I'll hopefully know in two weeks :)


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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   23 Mar 2009, 09:06
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isa wrote:
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where are you heading, isa?


Still TBD - I'll hopefully know in two weeks :)


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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   23 Mar 2009, 10:30
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IHateTheGMAT wrote:
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Still TBD - I'll hopefully know in two weeks :)


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You guys are funny :lol:
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   21 Apr 2009, 19:20
Just wondering... did anyone who got dinged receive a call from admissions asking to consider the cross-continent MBA program?

I got a call from an officer who told me although I was dinged for day-time, they found I am a great fit for cross-continent... and asked me to consider...
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   25 Apr 2009, 15:36
Did anyone waitlisted from round1 and round2 application from Duke hear anything from the admission's office? When will we be able to hear a definite words?
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   27 Apr 2009, 11:56
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Did anyone waitlisted from round1 and round2 application from Duke hear anything from the admission's office? When will we be able to hear a definite words?


I was waitlisted in round 1 and admitted off the waitlist in round 2. They admit people at the next decision date, so you should hear something on the round 3 decision date.
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   27 Apr 2009, 20:13
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Did anyone waitlisted from round1 and round2 application from Duke hear anything from the admission's office? When will we be able to hear a definite words?


I was waitlisted in round 1 and admitted off the waitlist in round 2. They admit people at the next decision date, so you should hear something on the round 3 decision date.


Well, the decision date for round 3 was April 23rd which is already passed. Yet, my status did not change. I guess this probably is equivalent to a rejection.
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   28 Apr 2009, 06:54
I am also in the same boat. However, i know from the BW board that Fuqua did remove people from the WL at the round 3 deadline. however, i don't have a lot of faith in waitlists this year (and this is coming from someone on 3 of them).
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   28 Apr 2009, 07:01
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We have a lot of people on GmatClub who got accepted from a waitlist, myself included. This is a great year to be on waitlists because the application volume has gone down overall (for most schools compared to last year). Be positive! And the fact that you are on 3 waitlists, your chances to get off at least one are pretty good 8-)

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I am also in the same boat. However, i know from the BW board that Fuqua did remove people from the WL at the round 3 deadline. however, i don't have a lot of faith in waitlists this year (and this is coming from someone on 3 of them).
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   04 May 2009, 14:12
Will the school send any notice to the waitlisted student and let them know that at the end they are still getting rejected because no more seats left? I still haven't heard anything from Duke yet for the R2 WL. I know that the deadline for those who want to attend Duke to send in deposit is May 1st. I guess I should still wait a little bit longer? I am thinking maybe they want to know how many people actually send in the deposit and then decide to remove someone from WL? Any thoughts?
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   05 May 2009, 08:09
Did nobody report an admit for Round 3 ? There are no posts on Apr 23-24. Looks like intake in R3 was meager.
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Re: Calling all Duke (Fuqua) Fall 2009 applicants! [#permalink] New post   06 May 2009, 08:18
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Will the school send any notice to the waitlisted student and let them know that at the end they are still getting rejected because no more seats left? I still haven't heard anything from Duke yet for the R2 WL. I know that the deadline for those who want to attend Duke to send in deposit is May 1st. I guess I should still wait a little bit longer? I am thinking maybe they want to know how many people actually send in the deposit and then decide to remove someone from WL? Any thoughts?


I know that they accept deposits as long as they were postmarked by the deposit deadline as opposed to received (per an email I got from their MBA office). So I'm sure it'd be at least a week before they'd say "ok, all these people didn't pay it, lets replace them with these people" etc.
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