Merit Scholarship Programs

Duke has a variety of merit scholarship programs enrolling a total of 70 incoming students each year. Each of them has distinctive programmatic ideals and looks for different types of students. 

We do not have required applications for any of our programs. We select finalists for each of our programs from among the applicants to Duke each year based on their complete Duke application, including essays, academic work, extracurricular activities and recommendations. Finalists are notified of their status via email each year in March and invited to campus at our expense for an interview in March or April. Our scholarship students are chosen from those interviewed and the winners are notified shortly thereafter. A list of our scholars is publically announced in mid-May.