<p>What exactly does a deferred admission mean?</p>
<p>If someone is deferred it means that the admissions office hasn’t made a final decision, but they will at a later date. For example: if someone applies to a college early decision and is deferred then they would be moved to the regular decision applicant pool, their application would be evaluated, and then they would get their final answer when regular decisions are announced.</p>
<p>Basically instead of “yes” or “no”, it means “maybe, but we’ll tell you for sure later”.</p>