<p>^Lol I was freaking out yesterday, but I guess I'm alright with it now.</p>
<p>I think it's because my grades were so bad in freshman and sophomore year and my rank isn't that good. Hopefully if I do good this semester I'll have a better chance.</p>
<p>Edit:
I just read your chance thread....I'm Nigerian too lol</p>
<p>Naija all the way!!!!</p>
<p>im actually part naija part ghanaian</p>
<p>If you are deferred, do they let you resubmit essays?</p>
<p>^no, you don't resubmit them. they just read those ones again.</p>
<p>I think someone in a thread from an earlier year said that deferred applicants had higher chances than regular regular decision applicants.</p>
<p>Also I got a B first quarter. Am I finished? I also have an additional subject test in physics (had only math--800 and world history--800 at time of application). I don't know my score yet (but I'd guess that I have a considerable chance for an 800, but possibly 760-790). Do you think it'd help?</p>
<p>Yeah, sure it could. Send it in.</p>
<p>Well, I guess if 10%>9.5% or whatever, then there is a higher chance? Haha.</p>
<p>--TennisChick, I was also deferred and I think it was for a very similar reason.</p>
<p>I had a huge jump in GPA from 10th to 11th grade. I am also a URM, 2160, 800, 800.</p>
<p>I guess one of the factors that killed me was
my low SAT score. I got just below 2100.
I retook the December SAT, and hoping for a higher score...
but apparently the CR section was really really hard.</p>
<p>If I raise my superscore by about 100 pts, will that help a lot?</p>
<p>Deferred students have almost double the chance than RD students. Math...</p>
<p>Stanford will accept about 9% of ALL applicants, including SCEA. So it has already accepted 700 from SCEA out of an expected total of 27000 applicants. </p>
<p>27000*0.09 is 2430, or 2430 total acceptances. 2430 (total) - 700 (early) = 1730 (regular). 1730/27000=about 6% average admit rate for RD, while deferred students have 10% rate. </p>
<p>Uh...did that make any sense.</p>
<p>~hmg, hopefully.</p>
<p>To get RD rate you should do 1730/27000-(Total Early Applicants)</p>
<p>I'm not going to lie, the more I think about it, the better I feel about being deferred. I had a total SAT1 of ~2100 with a writing score of 580 :/ which would put me in the very very very bottom percentiles of stanford students. at least now i get to retake the SAT and take another shot at it</p>
<p>Is it just me, or does it make no sense that deferral has about the same chance as other RD applications. We ALREADY made it past a first cut, and are in the top 30% of the EA applicant pool, which is stronger than the RD pool in the first place. How is it possible that only 10% of us get accepted.</p>
<p>haha... I wonder why.</p>
<p>I'm wondering the same thing, SamuraiBoy...perhaps the "polite rejections" given to legacies/feeder schools are skewing this number to the low end?</p>
<p>that seems to be the exact opposite of their policy though. They say they try not to string people for the ride for a "polite rejection"</p>
<p>Well, I read somewhere on here that it's different for legacies.</p>
<p>yea I read something like that too</p>