<p>Does anyone the percentage of deferred admitted in RD? Thanks.</p>
<p>i think on another board someone mentioned ~14-15%??? not positive</p>
<p>Yeah it's higher than just a normal RDer.</p>
<p>now is this because of a sort of favoritism?
or is it because deferred applicants are self-selectively stronger applicants than the average RD-er?</p>
<p>no idea... it's probably a certain degree of favoritism? only if the applicants are equally qualified maybe?</p>
<p>Yes, there is an advantage to being a deferred candidate in the RD round. Admissions tends to take a closer look at the earlier candidates. </p>
<p>There has been some documentation on that in previous threads/forums, such as for Harvard & possibly Yale.</p>
<p>Of course it's discouraging, but college admissions to any high-profile institution has been, is, will be enormously challenging until at least 2012, if not after. It's a long shot even to be deferred at one of these. So if you've made it to deferral, you're still ahead of the game, numbers wise. It means that they have not disqualified you, and they disqualify thousands of students, and reject others in the ED round for reasons having to do with duplication (nothing unusual in the profile), personality issues, character issues, or clear non-fit.</p>
<p>I know it may sound weird, but if you got a deferral, you should be congratulating yourself for being stand-out enough in a very stand-out pool, to have been granted a second look. So, there, congratulations to you.:)</p>
<p>Is there ANY official stats availabe for this year's deferral rate for early pool? I want to know how many else are in the same boat as I am.</p>
<p>i dont know stats, all i know is that i got deferred and that ive been sobbing since 1 pm. so i feel your pain...</p>
<p>I thought that more than 70% were deferred. They hardly outright reject someone, but they do a ton of "polite" defers (schools would be hurt if you rejected their little-miss-perfect-valedictorian). The only problem for the deferee (like me :( ) is to figure out if he/she is part of the actual defer pool or just a polite defer which would just lead to automatic rejection in RD.</p>
<p>that is completely untrue, epiphany. there are rarely any rejections in ED unless they know you have absolutely no chance in RD. amacing is correct.</p>
<p>Apparently, if you get deferred ED your chances of admittance go down b/c now you're competing w/ a much bigger pool including deferred students from Harvard, etc, plus really qualified students who decided not to apply ED to Princeton. I was one of these deferred then rejected Princeton hopefulls last year, and I don't know of any other ppl who were deferred then accepted (personally). Not trying to be such a downer but basically, get excited about schools that aren't Princeton. Trust me, next year you'll look back on college admissions and wonder what the fuss was about; being at college is just so different. Besides, I hear Princeton is considering allowing transfer admits soon. Hope that's some type of silver lining? So all you deferred ppl totally have the right to be upset right now; I remember being inconsolable for a bit, but just know that,ultimately, this is in no way the end of the world and isn't even a major setback. I think I kinda failed at trying to spread words of wisdom, lol, but hopefully you get what I'm saying!</p>
<p>Well, chances go down from ED to RD, but are certainly higher for people deferred from ED versus those just applying RD, which was the OP's question.</p>
<p>Yeah. BUt, as amacing touky pointed out, deferred does not bring hope....</p>