<p>So in the wake of all the results, I've noticed that some people have claimed that at least some of the deferrals were the result of the admissions officers simply not being able to evaluate all the applications to meet the deadline. I don't particularly believe this notion, but I thought it would be interesting to see if a higher proportion of people who applied very near the deadline were deferred compared to those who applied significantly in advance.</p>
<p>I realize that assigning any significance to any findings would likely require several significant assumptions (e.g. the adcoms read the applications in the order that they were received), but I think it could be interesting to look at.</p>
<p>So if you submitted your supplement/common app on November 1, and you were accepted, could you sound off here?</p>
<p>A friend who applied this year submitted on Oct. 31st or Nov. 1st (I’m not sure which, but he asked me to read his essays on Halloween night), and he got accepted.</p>
<p>silverturtle, I was deferred as well, and I submitted at about 8:00 PM on 11/1, hence my curiosity (and to some degree my grasping at any possible excuse ).</p>
<p>This could also depend on the number of applications that each regional officer received. I suppose it’s possible that they got to all the applications from the areas that had fewer applicants, but they didn’t get to all of them from the more populated areas. </p>
<p>Overall, however, I feel that this is very unlikely, but if it is true, I think it would be rather irresponsible, especially considering the fact that they received roughly the same number of applications as last year.</p>
<p>But oh well, nothing we can do about it now :)</p>
<p>Wouldn’t it also depend on the region from which you applied, as they have your regional rep read your application before it is discussed before the entire admissions committee? If a certain reader was inundated with apps they might not have had a chance to discuss them fully in front of the whole committee, thus resulting in a deferral. </p>
<p>I don’t necessarily believe that, it’s just a thought. I applied Nov. 1st and was deferred.</p>
<p>Right, that’s what I was thinking too. That could partially explain why they might get to some that were submitted on 11/1, but others were just deferred automatically.</p>
<p>But realistically, this is all probably just hopeful speculation, and we simply didn’t make whatever their cut was</p>
<p>In fact, a friend of mine submitted a few hours into November 2 and got in. Apparently Yale emailed him and said there’s a 72 hour leeway for submitting, past the Nov 1 deadline (so even Nov 4 would work). There you go. :/</p>
<p>Not look at them? No way. The SCEA process is designed to give Yale an edge at yielding the most amazing students. It’s not a matter of failing in some duty owed to applicants – it’s a matter of failing to fulfill their main objective in offering SCEA.</p>
<p>Now…that said…it’s possible that, given the time constraint, they only gave the full in-depth review to applicants whose jacket files contained one, two or more “flags” – like URM, legacy, recruited athlete, Intel, etc. But they definitely looked at all the files and got to the ones that they felt they needed to get to at this stage of the game.</p>
<p>Pretty much every time management and organizational manifesto says that you should touch paper only once (this rule is so important that it typically comes right behind “You should not spend time on College Confidential”) so I don’t see how they can look at the entire SCEA pool completely and thoroughly in November and then give ithe 3,000 deferrals from that pool the same attention once again in the RD round. </p>
<p>That would mean effectively increasing their workload by 3,000 applications.</p>
<p>I can’t fathom that being the case. So they either give them all a full reading in November and have a good idea where they stack up going into the RD round OR they only made a quick check of many of the deferrals in November and read only enough to decide that they’ll defer the full reading until, well, starting now I suppose. Maybe there are other options. Maybe Jeffrey Brenzel has explained the process in excruciating detail and it’s none of the above. I’m simply suggesting that there is some germ of truthiness to the idea that the deferred applications might not have gotten a full read-through at this point even though I’m convinced that they got enough of a review for Yale to have made an informed, intentional choice when they put them in the deferred pile.</p>
<p>I turned mine in about two weeks early and was deferred. If they read mine and had time to defer me then I guess I don’t have too much of a chance in the regular pool.</p>
<p>If you’re concerned that deferrals were the result of apps not being read (which I don’t believe), then the true culprit will be forms not submitted by the high schools in the weeks after 11/1, not how close the app was submitted to Nov 1.</p>
<p>Haha this is totally untrue. I submitted my app two days after 11/1 to Yale since I procrastinated till the last week to write my commonapp essay and the supplement, and I was accepted to Yale EA.</p>
<p>App submitted on 11/1 and they still do not have my school forms from this year (they said they just used the forms from last year when I applied RD) and accepted.</p>
(Assuming, of course, that applications are read in the order in which they are received.)</p>
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