Hey everyone!
I got deferred from Penn today, and I was wondering: Do deferred applicants compete against other deferred applicants, or are they compared to the RD applicants? Are deferred applicants placed in a separate pool? The acceptance rate for deferred ED applicants last year was 11%, and I was wondering how that was calculated.
Also, does anyone have the percentage or number of apllicants in the pool who were deferred for the class of 2020?
Thanks!
I think deferred students are reconsidered within the regular decision pool.
Hi. I also got deferred. I believe we are reconsidered within the regular decision pool, but they know that we applied ED and conveyed interest earlier (as well as through posted deferral updates), so that is why our percentage tends to be a bit higher. And I tried calculating the percentage of applicants deferred, and I got around 17%, which seems a bit low, but hey, there were ~60% rejected, so let’s just be thankful that we still have another chance even though it is small.