For the fourth year in a row, Duke has broken its record for number of applications received with 37,302, an eight percent increase from the previous year.
This year marked record-setting application numbers for some of Duke’s peer institutions as well. Harvard College matched Duke’s eight percent growth with 42,742 applicants for the class of 2022. Yale College saw a seven percent increase with 35,305 applicants, while Northwestern University had 40,418 applicants, up 8.5 percent from the previous year.