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UndergraduatesDuke’s impressive Class of 2009 began with 1,375 Trinity College students and 353 Pratt Engineering students selected from a record pool of 18,089 applicants. More than half of the applicants were top 10 students in their secondary schools and 1,473 were valedictorians. By the numbersStudents of color make up more than one-third of the class, which was 21.5 percent Asian, 9 percent African-American and 6.5 percent Hispanic/Latino. On the SAT, 50 percent of the class scored between 1380 and 1560 out of 1600, with a quarter of the class doing even better than 1560. Thirteen percent of students are from North Carolina, with Florida, New York, Texas and California rounding out the top five states. The class includes 134 students from 45 foreign countries. Selected highlightsFour undergraduates won $7,500-per-year Goldwater Scholarships, recognizing their excellence in science, math or engineering:
Three Duke seniors were among the 32 recipients of Rhodes Scholarships in 2005: Adam Chandler, who worked in applied computational mathematics; William Hwang, who helped develop electrical chips to perform chemical analyses; and Rahul Satija, who researched questions in bioinformatics, were chosen from among 903 applicants at 333 colleges and universities throughout the country. They will spend the next several years studying at Oxford University in England. William Hwang and Jacqueline Ou were named first team members of USA Today’s All-USA Academic Team and Adam Chandler was named to the second team. Andrew Cunningham, a sophomore from Rutland, Vt., was recently selected as one of only 16 undergraduates from the United States to be honored as a Goldman Sachs Global Leader. Twelve Duke undergraduates received 2006-2007 Fulbright Scholarships for post-graduate study and teaching fellowships:
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