Dartmouth College Class of 2022 ED Discussion!

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deferred :-/ I’m just bummed I have to wait even longer considering a month and a half felt like a million years

Deferred and honestly might as well be a rejection Bc only 10% of deferrals get accepted. So can I just say screw Dartmouth and adiós

For those who got deferred/rejected:

Guys, I got deferred too, and this really bums me out. What hurts even more is that deferred gives me a sense of false hope, and I hate being in uncertain gray areas. However, consider this: one school may value what you have more than others. I read a book called “The Overachievers” that featured a senior who got rejected from Swarthmore ED but got into Yale RD. These results are independent from one another, so please don’t fret over one decision. I guarantee that you have a more-than-great shot, so please don’t waste so much time worrying and pick yourself up for somewhere where you might even thrive more.

I got in!! so happy

Denied. Unfortunate to see that so many people got deferred, but I got an outright rejection. Oh well. Quite honestly, I think a rejection might be more valuable mentally, because now I can completely stop worrying/hoping and move on to other applications. Congrats to everyone who was accepted! To those who were rejected/deferred, this isn’t over for us! Life goes on. We are all amazing applicants who can achieve whatever we want if we focus our heart and grind to it. I am confident in all of our futures, whether they are at Dartmouth or not.

I’m kind of glad I decided to apply RD because I would have probably had to wait anyways…

I will try and write as humbly as possible since my kid was one of the lucky few acceptances today. A rejection and even a deferral stings. So much hard work done and so much more to do . . . not to mention the stress of waiting. But as the mom of three superstar kids who have all had MANY more academic and artistic rejections than acceptances over the years, there is generally a happy ending, albeit often with a twist you never expected. This includes my daughter getting deferred ED to Brown, rejected by several “safety” schools and then accepted RD to Dartmouth. Go figure. Give yourself 24 hours to mourn and eat chocolate. Then pick yourself up and move on. As a former ivy admissions officer once told me, we could accept two full classes of valedictorians and still have to reject more (and who the hell wants to go to a college with all valedictorians anyway?). The bottom line is there are a LOT of people applying to the same handful of schools designated as the top 100 by US News & World Report etc and they all struggle to put together a great, interesting and diverse class in every sense of the word. But the truth is there are MANY more great colleges. The biggest mistake we made the first time thru the college application process was applying only to these popular schools. I encourage all the other superstars on this thread to think more broadly and you will find a dream school for you. And thank you to everyone for your support and guidance and camaraderie along the way. It is a stressful process for sure and having this little neighborhood of supportive and knowledgeable students and parents makes it slightly easier.

Deferred as well

Does anyone know if being denied indicates that you were a less-competitive candidate compared to those who were deferred? Is there any thread/post that discusses this?