Deferred Admission?

Transfer Students
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<p>I applied to the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign a while back. I recently found their online system where you can check your application status... So I logged in, and found out it said something like "Not all materials received". So I called them up, talked to an admissions counselor, who promptly told me that they had everything they needed and that I'd get a decision by the end of April.</p>

<p>So, the next day I checked my status and my application status was changed to "Complete ready for review."</p>

<p>And, about a week later, I checked again... And I saw a new field. I'm not sure if this was there or not before, but its there now...
"Decision: Deferred - Manual Review Req"</p>

<p>The application status is still "Complete ready for review." </p>

<p>Now, what I'm wondering is... Does deferred mean that they denied me, or does it mean that they haven't decided yet?</p>

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<p>It appears that you were borderline for their 'auto-admit'/'auto-deny' procedures and so need a human being to determine your fate, but I have no idea how the campus handles decisions.</p>

<p>You should be getting a post letter if it's a deferral (as in, you won't get your decision until our next round), but that seems odd to me. It just looks like you have to wait a little longer for a final decision.</p>

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<p>Yeah, deferred just means that your app has been reviewed, but they're waiting to make a decision. They want to compare all the other borderline apps again to see which ones should be rejected and which should be accepted. Deferrals aren't to be confused with waitlistings.</p>