<p>Do you suppose the odds are really the same for deferred EA applicants as they are for the enormous pool of RD applicants? After all, the deferreds already made it through one level of screening. But the official website says the odds are similar. That makes no sense to me.</p>
<p>According to a friend of mine who got in EA, her admission officer told her that EA defers have roughly 20% higher chance of admission. She said that because it shows that the student really wants to come.</p>
<p>^Plus unlike Yale or Chicago, doesn’t Stanford rarely defer anyone unless they really can’t draw a conclusion?</p>
<p>who knows, but i got deferred. i feel that the common application is not all that great-- it doesn’t provide enough room to list everything you did in one single place, even though it does have an additional comments section.</p>
<p>I sure hope so, but I think a main reason for our higher acceptance rate is that there aren’t any automatic rejects in the deferred pile</p>
<p>I wish they would just send us a note saying what they can’t decide on. If there really are not that many deferreds, it woud be good to know what the heck they couldn’t tell. If your GPA is good the whole way through, what does another semester’s grades tell them? If you pursued a passionate interest for the last few years, are they waiting to see if you drop it as soon as you finish the application? What could we possibly have added in the update that would have made a difference anyway? If they told us the darn question, we could give a more on point update instead of playing this guessing game. Grrrr… Okay, I have to admit the waiting is getting to me.</p>
<p>It’s frustrating, right? I was deferred EA as well. But something very interesting happened to me a while ago…</p>
<p>I was at a Starbucks for my Princeton interview, and after the interviewer left and as I was getting ready to leave myself, a woman sitting at the table next to us leaned over to me and said “I couldn’t help but overhear that you were talking about Princeton. I’m guessing that was the interview? I didn’t want to interrupt you guys, but I actually used to work at Stanford admissions if you want any pointers!”</p>
<p>I just stood there in shock. What an impossible synchronicity, right? So, the very first question I asked her was, ‘Are you serious,’ and she responded in the affirmative, so my next question was ‘I was deferred from Stanford during the early action round. What does that mean, exactly?’ And she just sort of giggled to herself and basically said that they just want to see how you do your senior year, that you would have been accepted had you had a hook, and as long as you maintain your current level of achievement and win some awards, your chances of admission are well above the 10% quote they give you in the letter.</p>
<p>Interesting that she would share that with you. That would be a nice bit of encouragement if I had won some awards. With a graduating class size of 80, there aren’t so many awards to be won. 
At least the grades held up, but some of my classmates really pulled themselves together and I slipped class rank from first to fourth place. I was actually pretty surprised to even make it onto the deferred list. With the EA and early RD admissions already done, and the reduced class size to compensate for an over-yeald the last two years, there can’t be than many more spaces left to distribute among our record mumber of applicants. Ah well, UCSD here I come.</p>
<p>^^wow, that’s not cool. i didn’t turn in the optional update. however, my grades HAVE remained on track… i’m hoping that’s helpful?</p>
<p>Either they deferred more people than usual or more deferred people are on these boards than would be statistically expected. I wondered if the economy tanking changed the tuition waiver policy and maybe they used deferrals to get more time to figure out what they could actually offer in financial aid. Maybe?</p>
<p>i didn’t apply for need based aid. shooot.</p>
<p>i really hope what she said still holds true… the weakest thing for me prior was a substandard SAT writing and i raised that 110 points… lets hope…</p>