<p>I was deferred, and I didn’t get anything in the mail. I’m under the assumption that only accepted students received anything.</p>
<p>Deferred applicants only got an online letter. Nothing in the mail.</p>
<p>Sent from my GT-I8150 using CC App</p>
<p>You guys. The best advice I can give (I was deferred also), is to contact your regional officer ASAP. I emailed mine the day after I received my decision, and she told me to call her after the 27th. I called her today, and the Dean of Admissions himself wants me to come up to Durham to meet with him! So I am going next week to meet Dean Guttentag. Just keep in touch with your regional officer and ask if they have any suggestions for you to improve your app!</p>
<p>Hmmm…I e-mailed my regional and heard nothing back (it’s been 2 weeks). I will e-mail again after the 1st. And that is great bamafan12! Good luck to you!</p>
<p>hey guys - just found this
i was deferred too :/</p>
<p>I’m probably not going to email the person in charge of my area since I don’t really have much to ask. I will send additional info (e.g. results of mock exams and maybe an extra rec from my employer), but that’s basically it.</p>
<p>Bamafan12,
What the hell did you say to your regional admissions person to get an invite like that?!</p>
<p>Now, Mr. Guttentag:</p>
<p>The hard truth is that if you applied early decision and were deferred, for most of you, unfortunately, the process is essentially over. Take a look at the defer letter — does it say what the admit percentage is for defers? If it does, take that number seriously. Keep that list of other colleges you’ve applied to close to your heart, because the odds say you’re going to be choosing from among one of them.</p>
<p>Early action is a different story. And — as with many things in the college admissions world — different colleges treat it differently. Many of them admit early action only those students who they see as absolute slam dunk/we’d-admit-them-in-any-pool cases. And since not every admit is a slam dunk for any college — there are always those that need the long discussion around the conference-room table — you still have a chance. And in that case, the competition in the regular-decision pool may actually be more favorable for you.</p>
<p>But if you’ve applied early decision and been deferred, you haven’t been denied, so what should you do? In the crush of reading all those regular-decision applicants, your admissions officer may not remember exactly what he or she liked about you in the first place, and you may want to remind him/her.</p>
<p>So here are some do’s and don’ts:</p>
<p>• Do remind your admissions officer that you exist, and that X really is your first choice. (What? You don’t know who your regional admissions officer is? Find out.) They know this, by the way, since you applied early decision, but do you tell someone, “I love you” only once? Of course not. If your interest in university X has increased over time, it’s O.K. to say that, but be sure to say why. (But don’t say that you’ll enroll if you’re admitted. Most of us know students who said they were absolutely sure they were coming to us and who subsequently changed their minds, so we generally don’t take that definitive a statement very seriously.)</p>
<p>• Don’t be a pest. Write once — some time in February, probably late February is best. Final rounds are about to begin. That’s when your application will bubble up.</p>
<p>• Don’t be cute or clever — unless your whole application tells us you’re cute or clever, in which case it would be consistent. But this is not a time to be something you’re not.</p>
<p>• Don’t come across as bitter, depressed or angry — that’s about as close to the kiss of death as you can get.</p>
<p>• Don’t offer to fly in for an(other) interview.</p>
<p>• Don’t inundate the office with letters from recommenders, and don’t write with every detail of what you’ve done this winter — both of those will make you appear even more anxious.</p>
<p>• Do write. If you’ve accomplished something meaningful, share that. If you’re proud of something, if it’s getting your best report card ever, or doing well in particularly tough courses, or winning (or coming in second) in a tough competition, let us know. Your admissions officer liked you and advocated for you, so here’s something else to put in her hands.</p>
<p>• Do be yourself — be your best self, your most authentic self that comes through in the application. Make your letter personal, not formal. Talk about the things you’re really excited about.</p>
<p>• Do make your letter easy to read. Everyone — including the admissions officer advocating for you — is incredibly busy right now.</p>
<p>• Do show us what an interesting person you are. Show us that you’re the kind of smart, engaged, difference-making student we all love. At this point, we’re really, truly, thinking about people, and we’re always on the lookout for great additions to the student body. Keep in mind that there’s a fine line between being rightfully proud of something and being self-aggrandizing.</p>
<p>• What about your counselor? He or she will send us your midyear grades in any case, and some include a note reiterating your good qualities and love for our college. But if there really is something worth knowing about what you’ve done in the winter, it’s also O.K. for them to share their perspective with us.</p>
<p>You may be asking why, if we all admit so few defers, colleges defer so many in the first place. That’s a fair question. There’s more than one reason why students are deferred:</p>
<p>Some students were close to being admitted, with a lot of appealing qualities, but there was something — some “soft spot” in the application or some uncertainty about how the student would ultimately look in the applicant pool — that kept the admissions committee from saying “yes.”</p>
<p>Some students were solid applicants, but over all, in the sum of their many attributes, just not compelling enough in the applicant pool to be admitted. While the chance of being admitted is low, the strange twists and turns of the admissions process means that occasionally these student become more appealing in April than they were in December.</p>
<p>If things fall your way and you’re admitted, count your blessings and make that college proud it admitted you; that will make it easier for the next student like you who was deferred to be admitted.</p>
<p>[You</a> Got Deferred. Now What? - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/defer/]You”>You Got Deferred. Now What? - The New York Times)</p>
<p>Does anyone still have the link to the FAQ and list of admission reps that came with the online deferral letter? The deferral letter is no longer on my daughter’s Duke application page online and we did not print out the info.</p>
<p>NCGal, go here… [Duke</a> University Admissions: Contact Admissions](<a href=“http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/thed/contact.html]Duke”>http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/thed/contact.html) and look for the rep for NC</p>
<p>Thank you spacecadet. we do have that. But we also wanted to look over the FAQ again.</p>
<p>Bump?</p>
<p>Did anyone send updates yet? :)</p>
<p>Nope, not yet. I think I’m gonna do it closer to late February</p>
<p>I did about 2-3 weeks ago, around the time when the RD applications were due.</p>
<p>I’m planning to send it in with my midyear report.</p>
<p>how many deferred apps will get admitted?
10%???</p>
<p>^ It’s usually about that number, either around or slightly higher than the RD acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Do all your application decision groups still say Early Admissions Decision?</p>
<p>@Shaq395: Yes.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that some people have withdrawn their application after being deferred. Why do people do this? Is it simply because they do not want to end up at a place where they were not initially wanted?</p>