<p>Being new with college admissions, my son applied EA at 5 schools, he has received 1 acceptance and 1 deferal to date. Are the chances of being accepted better when characterized as defered ?? What is the difference between being deffered and waitlisted ??</p>
<p>deferred = no decision EA; moved to the RD round for consideration.
WL = tentative acceptance RD; acceptance depends on the yield of the school (how many spots become open) and other factors the school is concerned about (eg. last year some schools took only full pay students from the WL).</p>
<p>Deferred = what happens when one is neither accepted nor rejected in the EA round
Waitlisted = what happens when one is neither accepted nor rejected in the RD round</p>
<p>In general, when a student is deferred, his/her app is reconsidered in the RD round and the student has as much of a chance, %-wise, of getting in as any other RD applicant.
I don’t know of any school with an official waitlist acceptance %, but the chance of being accepted off the waitlist is usually significantly lower than being accepted in RD itself, because the number of spaces is finite and is decided by how many accepted students choose not to come.</p>