<p>As a deferred Yale candidate, I am curious as to what some of the tricks are for snagging that acceptance come April. Can anyone of experience with a Yale deferral provide some stories, advice or insight? Thanks!</p>
<p>Ah yes, success stories...I'd like to hear these too :)</p>
<p>bump, please answer yay</p>
<p>crud, maybe there aren't any. (kidding!)</p>
<p>Oh wait, I remember someone told me about a thread in the parent forum that's all about deferrals and results. I'll bet if you ask around there you'll find people who can help us.</p>
<p>A student from my school last year was accepted after being deferred</p>
<p>bump, please. And do you have any advice for us deferrees?</p>
<p>My sympathies to everyone who's in this boat; my daughter went through a deferral from Yale last year, and the wait until April seemed very long. I posted about her experiences in an earlier thread about "what do do if you're deferred": <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=19355%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=19355</a>. Basically, she kept her grades really high, asked her GC to call her regional admissions officer, then followed up with her own letter to the officer. This has become pretty standard procedure, and if Yale remains your clear first choice, it couldn't hurt to say so. But do I think such efforts really turn things around? Not so much. Yale obviously thinks you're highly qualified--or they would have rejected rather than deferred you in the first round. In the end, I believe their final decision will probably come down to the way you fit into the total applicant pool. </p>
<p>Either way, there is definitely life after deferral. As it happens, my daughter was one of the "success stories"--she was admitted RD, and has met other Yale freshmen who were deferred too. But other deferred applicants are equally happy now at places like Harvard, Brown, Wesleyan, Princeton, Williams, the University of Chicago, etc. There's a very heartening thread on the Parents Forum on "outcomes after EA/ED rejection last year" (which also applies to deferrals): <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=15378%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=15378</a>.</p>
<p>Good luck to all.</p>
<p>my friend was deferred last year and was accepted RD instead.
he attends Yale now and I'm pretty sure he didn't do anything special after he applied ED/EA and was deferred. he just put it in the back of his mind not expecting anything. he applied to liike 10 other colleges and 6-8 6yr med programs. he got into all of them, was accepted to Yale RD, so then dropped everything for Yale.</p>