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Duke Former Admissions Officer
Matt
Positioning Your Talent on the Activities List for Elite Admissions
August 11th
8 PM ET
Live on Zoom
What You’ll Learn:
Perfect grades are now the baseline. Your talent is the hook that gets you in, if you know how to position it. Join a Duke Former Admissions Officer for the strategy.
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The Evaluation Process: How committees actually score artistic, athletic, and musical talent.
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Strategic Placement: Where your talent belongs across the activities list, essays, and portfolio.
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The "Talent Hook": Turning skill into proof you'll strengthen a campus.
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eal Case Studies: Specialists who earned Top 30 offers.
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2025–2026 Trends: What top schools are rewarding this cycle, and what no longer moves the needle.
MEET YOUR HOST
Matt
Duke Former Admissions Officer
Matt has reviewed thousands of applications across undergraduate and graduate admissions, admitting students to schools ranging from Duke and Harvard to the Manhattan School of Music. That range gives him a firsthand read on how committees evaluate high-caliber talent across disciplines and which applicants rise to the top of a competitive pool.
Where Matt's Students Have Been Admitted:
Harvard · Penn · Columbia · Brown · Northwestern · Rice · Georgetown · Emory · NYU · Michigan
Our Results | 2025–2026 Admissions Results
Ivy League + Top 10 Offers
201
Top 20 Offers
384
Higher Ivy+ Acceptance Rate vs. National Average
12.5x
Top 30 Acceptance Rate
87%
Elite Offers Per Student
4.37
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