<p>Sorry to hear of your son's deferral. One of my daughter's schoolmates also just got deferred at Yale too. Her older brother who is a senior at Harvard told her that the competition at Yale would be brutal this year since Harvard and some of the other Ivys no longer do ED, and he was right. Everyone was flocking to apply to Yale because of this.
Good luck with the RD process. I will be doing the same waiting game next year with my daughter and I dread it.</p>
<p>aisgzdavinci, what stupidity you display in your comment...
if there were no "slight chance" the college would have flat out rejected these students, obviously the admissions officers must be interested in some aspect of the deferree, and of course there is a possibility of being accepted after reconsideration in the spring.</p>
<p>As far as I know, many colleges tend to select the very top for ED acceptance- leaving the "middle ground" - who are likely "fits," but not standouts in the admissions pool, to wait for regular decision.</p>
<p>It's not a bad idea to think on the pessimistic side (so rejection, if it comes, is not as big of an emotional shock) However, I agree with melissa, that the college must see some quality in your application to not reject you entirely. The most difficult part (as an applicant) is not knowing whether you were on the verge of being acceptance or that of being rejected.</p>
<p>Defer = there's still some value in you? Like to boost diversity... Am I right?</p>