GPA 3.9+ · SAT 1550+ · TOEFL 114+ · AP 7+ 门
US Top 50 · Durham, North Carolina · Extreme Reach
Duke University杜克大学
US News 2026 #7 (US News 2026 National Universities)
“Eruditio et Religio”
At a glance
Duke University is a Extreme Reach school on our readiness map — that label describes how demanding the preparation is for international-school applicants, not an admission probability.
Based in Durham, North Carolina (US Top 50, US News 2026 #7 per US News 2026 National Universities), it reviews both AP and A-Level curricula, so the question is not which system you study but how strong your core-subject evidence is.
The benchmarks and admit-case chart below come from anonymized application records of Chinese international-school students, aggregated with percentile ranges to protect every individual case.
Case benchmarks (anonymized aggregate)
Median GPA3.92P25-P75: 3.70 – 3.96
Median SAT1550P25-P75: 1500 – 1600
Median AP count9P25-P75: 5 – 11
Ranges use P25/P75 percentiles instead of extremes so a single outlier cannot skew the picture.
Anonymized admit cases
GPA 3.9+ · SAT 1550+ · TOEFL 114+ · AP 7+ 门
SAT 1550+ · TOEFL 107-113 · AP 5-6 门
Cases never include student names, school names, teachers, essay text or external application ids.