<p>Thanks for the story and the ray of hope NYSkins1. I’m really dead set on going to Rice and I did every possible thing to show interest. Hopefully an admissions officer will see this on a second or third read of my application.</p>
<p>travistag: I really don’t understand why you were deferred. i would love to have your stats.</p>
<p>Im his twin with nearly identical stats. Also deferred. And perplexed :/</p>
<p>Wow, I completely agree with jchartier, I don’t understand why you guys were deferred. Espeically since my stats are not nearly as great when compared next to them. Which is why I am about to go sign up for the January SAT.</p>
<p>It is so difficult to not leech on to every last ray of hope. Rice is pretty much everything I have ever dreamed about, but now, my hope is dying pretty quickly.
I was holding onto the thought that maybe I was deferred because I live in houston, but than I found out someone else from my school got accepted today.
I kind of feel like that if I didn’t get accepted with early decision, why would they accept me for regular decision?</p>
<p>Oh how I wish there were stats to show the percentage of people who were deferred and than got accepted/declined… :P</p>
<p>right there with you meroko. already signed up for the january SAT tonight. although i don’t live in houston or texas for that matter, i know several kids with more impressive stats than I who are applying RD. im really scared now.</p>
<p>@travistag</p>
<p>Look, college admissions is a crapshoot. Something like 70 percent or more of the people who apply to Rice would make great Rice students, but they can only take 20 percent of them. There’s maybe somewhere between two and five percent that they say, “Great, these people are definitely in,” then another ten percent where they say, “Okay, these people are out,” and then they have 85 percent of the applicant pool from which to take the remaining 15 percent. A deferral (or even a rejection) is a judgement, but it’s not a judgement of you as a person; it’s a judgement of some numbers that are attached to your name. There’s hope for you yet (look at my story), and there are other great schools out there.</p>
<p>There’s nothing you can do about it right now, so don’t worry about it until April.</p>
<p>Just to add, when I was applying last year I was dead set on University of Chicago. I applied EA, was deferred, and ultimately rejected in RD. I was pretty crushed. But then I was accepted at Rice, and honestly, I couldn’t imagine being at U of C now. In other words, like NYSkins said, there’s more than one school out there that you would be happy at, so while it may seem devastating now, trust me everything will turn out ok in the long run. Besides, there’s always the RD round! All is not lost, believe me.</p>
<p>thanks, guys. i’ll start other apps and keep hope alive for rice:)</p>