<p>Do I still have a chance for admission as a deferred applicant? Does anyone know how many applicants from the SCEA pool got deferred (percentage)?</p>
<p>i know of 6 kids who have been deferred over the last few years...5 eventually got in. I'm sure statistically that is not the pattern, but you should know deferred studens do get in.</p>
<p>A couple things you can do to help yourself: If you have new test scores, make sure they get sent in; study your butt off for semester finals...mid-year report counts; see if you can get another letter of recommendation for your file; send Stanfod a letter letting them know that you are still interested. All or some of these things have been known to help.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Deferred students do get in sometimes, but don't count on it now. Apply to other schools as if Stanford was not an option.</p>
<p>After you are done with all that, send Stanford all the updates and love letters you want, and hope for the best.</p>
<p>Someone said the accept/defer/reject ratio was about 20/30/50; in another post, it said they accepted 16% this year, but didn't say how many were deferred. I got a deferral too...I'm looking for ways to increase my chances</p>
<p>I've heard that from Stanford, the majority aren't deferred but straight-up rejected from the SCEA pool. They wouldn't defer you unless they thought there was a point evaluating your application in the RD pool. If they didn't think you had a chance, they'd have rejected you.</p>
<p>^ Can anyone else verify what Musaki has heard?</p>
<p>I can, but it was just hearsay from a college counselor.</p>
<p>me too. i'm not 100% sure, but they defer much fewer people than harvard/yale</p>
<p>Yes that's true.</p>
<p>They only reject people they're sure they won't accept later, so likewise, if you were deferred, they think they might accept you RD. I guess Stanford is less whimsical about their decisions than the Ivy League.</p>
<p>meh i got deferred too; im thinking if they defer 30% and accept 10% of that, and early apps=around 4650? this year, so 1550ish got deferred, only 155 will get in
=T and alot of the people who got deferred here seem to have better stats than me so...blah</p>
<p>10% of deferred get in regular. its tough. and no, being deferred is not a polite rejection, it means you're stanford quality, but they want to see how you compare with the regular pool too (there ARE 19000 more applicants). stanford doesnt defer many (i dont know the percentage)</p>
<p>i think the worst is being waitlisted. what a rare breed.</p>
<p>What's waitlisted mean? And btw, to OP, a deferral is not a polite rejection, but rather an unorthodox acceptance.</p>
<p>Around 10% accepted early, 10% deferred, and 80% rejected. I went to the Stanford Summer College and heard it directly from one of the admission officer that was giving a lecture. So, if you do get deferred, you still have a good chance getting accepted. Good luck.</p>
<p>so if 10% get deferred, and 10% of the 10% who get deferred get in regular, that makes it... 1% of the original early applicants that will get in regular.. comforting :) but good luck to all us deferees.. another three more months of waiting.. <em>sigh</em> 1.5 months was already bad..</p>
<p>Waitlisted can mean different things at different schools. Usually it means you're good, but just didn't quite make the cut. Some schools use it more politically. They'll put legacies on the waitlist whom they have no intention of ever taking off the list. (I don't think this is that common or the majority of the cases, even in schools that have done this is the past.) You should feel good about the deferrals, even though your chances are probably no better than they ever were for getting in.</p>
<p>Parent here---how/what do you say to child who has been deferred-and they feel like what more can they possibly do to get into a "good" school. They have THE class rank/grades/SAT scores/ECs/President of this/that---you get my drift. Suggestions?</p>
<p>Well first of all, stress that it's not over, and that a deferral is NOT a rejection, or even close. </p>
<p>Second of all, Stanford isn't the only good school on the planet. Remember that, because it's true. In most cases, thinking that only the best brand name schools are "good" is setting up for some kind of jolt.</p>
<p>Thirdly, it sounds like a useless placating statement, but admissions really are absurdly competitive now. We're still in the stage where the number of applicants is going way up, and the quality of applicant is going up, but we're still left with the vestiges of the culture that only valued a brand name education. So the brand name schools are getting unbelievably amounts of applications. In that environment, sometimes your best just doesn't stand out quite enough from the masses. It's not a mark of shame, or means you're any worse a person, it's just a fact of life today.</p>
<p>That's what I'd say - stressing the "it's not a rejection" part. :P</p>
<p>What do you think can be done to go from "deferred" to "accepted?" It appears it is too late to sign up to retake SAT's. Is that true? And I was already straight A's and continue to get them. DFid anyone call admissions to get suggestions?</p>
<p>Make sure to send the mid-year report and updates on any major awards. There isn't much you can do other then that. Apply to other (safer) schools, and remember that your worth as a person does not depend on your acceptance to Stanford.</p>