deferred from Yale! what to do?!

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<p>i'm an international student who just got deferred from Yale.
my GPA is a 3.8 (unweighted we don't weight at our school)
my sats are 670 crit 740 math 670 writing
my sat 2 (december scores still havent come out) 670 bio 680 math 1</p>

<p>i know that it seems like my grades are great but not AMAZING, but my extra curriculars are amazing!</p>

<p>I'm lebanese so i made a documentary film about women in the arab world
i've been dance team captain for 4 years
Model United Nations
i teach domestic workers english
i teach kids english and drama and other things (dance, cooking, help with homework)
i was invited to and attended the yale arab alumni conference (a couple of months ago)
i teach kids in UNRWA schools
national honor society
academic excellence award in 11th grade
went to 2 leadership conferences (one of them is very important 'women to women in boston')
JV academic games
organizer of Global Youth Service Days in Lebanon for 2009 and 2010
organizer of the arab world volunteer initiative conference 2010
co-founder of the youth empowerment council
2 theatre plays (you're a good man charlie brown and lend me a tenor)</p>

<p>my essays were personal the commonapp one is about finding my identity during the 2006 war in lebanon and the other one is about me dancing and what i feel doing it.
my recommendations were really good too.</p>

<p>what do you think i should do?! is it hard to get accepted regular decision after you've been deferred? do you have a higher chance of getting in?</p>

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<p>I think the same way as you, you dont have amazing scores but they are ok, you could have maybe improved the subject tests (which I hope will come out better in december for you). I was actually wondering about the same thing I could not find any statistics about how deferrals did in the regular decision process. I guess a deferral means that they did not want to reject you but you weren’t that amazing either that they wanted to compare you with others that will apply. but I dont know now if I should assume myself a regular applicant, or does it make any difference that I had applied early …</p>