<p>Guttentag from Duke, said in regards to submitting a letter after an ED applicant is deferred:
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<p>Why wouldn’t the ED applicant want to send in a letter saying they’ll enroll after being deferred? And why wouldn’t you take it as a “definitive statement” when the individual actually applied ED (a binding decision)? If the applicant applied ED, they obviously wanted to go to Duke! So a letter saying they’ll enroll if admitted seems pretty definitive to me, when they knew Duke was their top choice all along!</p>