<p>IDK why, but I read the deferral and opened up my genetics book to study!</p>
<p>I've already gotten a deferral from another school a few days ago, so I wasn't crying my eyes out (already done that before!).</p>
<p>Stay positive!</p>
<p>Tomorrow will be a good day.</p>
<p>hi5 fellow deferee</p>
<p>hello. what’s up.</p>
<p>hello… boo… oh well, christmas is around the corner.</p>
<p>Matt (or somebody) will probably have a blog entry up for you soon, but in the meantime you can peruse his entry for deferred students from last year: [MIT</a> Admissions | Blog Entry: “For EA Deferred Students”](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/misc/miscellaneous/for_ea_deferred_students_1.shtml]MIT”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/misc/miscellaneous/for_ea_deferred_students_1.shtml)</p>
<p>Jmanx, you mean RD essay-writing time is around the corner.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>I guess it’s Chicago for me… unless Emory has a good scholarship offer. If I can’t get into MIT with an 18% acceptance rate, I know I certainly can’t get into princeton or stanford, and those were my only ones besides MIT that were better than Chicago.</p>
<p>Whoa we didn’t get rejected. This is awesome.</p>
<p>Yeah, not being rejected is great. It’s the whole waiting thing that sucks.</p>
<p>@kitkatkatie:
I don’t know ur from Colorado. I live in Aurora. Where do you live?</p>
<p>@Code H:
Hey my fellow QB! I’m deferred, too.</p>
<p>Deferees,</p>
<p>We are still who we were 25 minutes ago. The same athlete. The same brainiac. The same quirky guy/girl. The same over-achiever (hehe).</p>
<p>Nothing has changed.</p>
<p>Have confidence in WHO YOU ARE. </p>
<p>Derive your self-esteem from what you know about yourself, not from what others think about you. </p>
<p>This is by far the biggest thing that I have learned as a person over the last few weeks.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
<p>@kitkatkatie - </p>
<p>Don’t be so sure about other schools. We all look for different things in different applicants. If you’re already in at Chicago, and you could see yourself going there, feel free to apply wherever else, and remember you’ll get looked at again in RA for us!</p>
<p>hello fellow deferees…glad to be among such exceptional (but obviously not exceptional enough) people…</p>
<p>hey pnp. I have to say that I think QB hurt more than helped.</p>
<p>But eh.</p>
<p>Life blows at times, what can we do. :D</p>
<p>Seems like very few people got rejected. Is it always like this?</p>
<p>(Deferred!)</p>
<p>I just want to remind you all that deferees DO get in! A lot of my friends (and me, too!) here were deferred and then accepted. :)</p>
<p>@Code H:
QB actually helps me a lot because it’s really hard for me to get letters of rec this year as I transferred to a new school for my senior year.
(The recommendations I submitted to QB come from teachers at the old school.) </p>
<p>And now, when the National College Match ended already, I dont think that QB can hurt us in the admission process because we’re considered normal applicants now, and MIT is need-blind.
Let’s hope that QB finalist status will at least get us to somewhere.</p>
<p>Questbridge never hurts.</p>
<p>Hey, got deferred just like everyone else. So what’s the next step? Anything else besides the midyear report?</p>