SkyHighway

Hey guys! Just wanted you to know that I reached Duke`s Stat Sci department and they said that Duke will not do any waitlist call this year. I was pretty sad, given that Duke was my priority, but I am also happy that I managed to be accepted at UT Austin. I wish you the best! I hope you all end up being accepted!

So sorry for your case... The application is so crazy this year.

Hey guys! Just wanted you to know that I reached Duke`s Stat Sci department and they said that Duke will not do any waitlist call this year. I was pretty sad, given that Duke was my priority, but I am also happy that I managed to be accepted at UT Austin. I wish you the best! I hope you all end up being accepted!

Hey guys! Just wanted you to know that I reached Duke`s Stat Sci department and they said that Duke will not do any waitlist call this year. I was pretty sad, given that Duke was my priority, but I am also happy that I managed to be accepted at UT Austin. I wish you the best! I hope you all end up being accepted!

Tomorrow I am turning down UCSC, FSU, UF, VT and ASU.
I will wait until  April 10 for any response of Duke's waitlist. Anyone turning down Duke?

I just turned down NCSU, UCLA, and UC Irvine. Hope that helps any of you that are on their waitlists! Good luck

@Geococcyx Thank you for sharing your experience! You just got my hopes up!
By the way, got a rejection letter from Berkeley today.

@Bayequentist As an applicant, I'd consider it a waitlisting, and probably move on if I had solid offers of similar stature.  One of my professors mentioned that it's not all that rare for departments to throw a few unfunded offers out, although I gather from the forums that becomes more common as you go down the rankings.  It's hard to guess the applicant and admit pools without knowing the school, though, considering its location (e.g. if it was UC Santa Barbara vs. Indiana) and its research/professor profile.
@SkyHighway It's hard for me to know about how waitlists work with international vs. domestic students, but I got into Duke on Feb 7, which seems to be a week+ later than anyone else who got accepted, and perhaps not-so-coincidentally is a couple days after both Stanford and Cal statistics released.  As such, I'm guessing I was on the waitlist, and just got accepted since they hadn't decided to release waitlistings yet.  If so, that'd suggest both that several students may have already declined Duke, and that Duke might be pulling from the waitlist now.  It's hard to know how much that would help your odds, though.  Also, this is pure, pure conjecture, so on the whole I'd trust the actual veteran posters' comments about the likelihood (or lack thereof) of getting off waitlists.

@Monte Carlo That tends to happen on Duke's admissions page when you have issues with the cookies in your browser.  Try a different browser (e.g. Microsoft Edge if you've abandoned it), I think it'll work.