<p>and what do you think accounted for the positive outcome?</p>
<p>OMG, pleaseadvise! How about YOU tell us what you’ve done so far?</p>
<p>contacted regional reps for the colleges at which deferred (indicating continued interest in the schools), updated Adcoms w/interim achievements, and have an interview w/one school. Trying to maintain first semester grades at a good level and have contacted professors at 3 schools in department of interest. Not sure any of it will make a difference, but at least giving it the “old college try” (pun intended). Any other suggestions?</p>
<p>Sorry, but when you contacted the regional rep, what did you say exactly? I need some serious help! Please and thank you. Also how did you the contact the professors and what did you ask them? Did you knoww them personally or professionally before?</p>
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<p>only updating the Admissions Committees of new, recently earned achievements of which they were previously unaware, and only contacting them once on an interim basis. Will let the chips fall where they may from that point. Likewise only planning to reach out to the regional rep once.</p>
<p>Thanks! I’m sending the adcoms a letter of continued interest and my updated grades/achievements. Hopefully it’s enough to get me in.</p>
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<p>I am very interested in this thread, as I have yet to hear of a student who was deferred and then accepted. I wonder which colleges really mean “deferred” and will seriously reconsider the candidate in the RD round, which are using that term as a more polite rejection (similar to putting too many students on a huge waiting list).</p>
<p>DS e-mailed the reg. rep., indicated his continuing interest in the college, introduced himself, updated on a couple of recent achievements he thought were important—two short paragraphs. He contacted the professors to express an interest in a program at the school asking how he might coordinate it with his other interests in the Liberal Arts, and how he might best prepare over the remainder of H.S. and summer. He may have been familiar w/the work of the faculty at large, but did not know them personally or professionally.</p>
<p>TheGFG, why would a school bother to defer a student if they weren’t interested in considering him/her in the RD round? Same thing with the wait list, there’s no need to do that unless the student is a serious contender. Other than a handful of kids, what is there to gain for the college? Many kids are admitted after deferral and being waitlisted. You haven’t yet heard for this round because most schools don’t send admissions notices until March. BTW, my daughter was admitted from a waitlist at Northwestern 3 years ago.</p>
<p>The GFG, it does happen, but not that often. I would guess one maybe has a 10-20% chance at the top universities. I suspect some deferrals are indeed polite rejections. But I also suspect some get a real second chance review at the time the RD pool is considered.</p>
<p>I believe it was also mentioned to you, in past posts, to have your son’s guidance counselor make a call to the schools. Right after sending first semester’s grades might be a good time for this call. Many people are accepted after being deferred, but it usually isn’t until March or April. I know it’s hard to wait, but try to stay calm.</p>
<p>“Many kids are admitted after deferral and being waitlisted. You haven’t yet heard for this round because most schools don’t send admissions notices until March. BTW, my daughter was admitted from a waitlist at Northwestern 3 years ago.”</p>
<p>The daughter of a friend of mine was admitted in June off a Northwestern waitlist 3 years ago as well. She was a double legacy, from a part of the country that is likely underrepresented, and had applied RD.</p>
<p>I know a person who was deferred ED at UPenn and got accepted RD. After getting deferred, that person sent in an additional rec, a letter of interest and an updated transcript.</p>
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Happens all the time (and has been posted often). My d. was deferred from U of Chicago EA, accepted in the spring, as was the only other kid who applied that year from her high school.</p>
<p>Generally colleges defer because they want to see the mid-term grades. There are probably other things that can be done to enhance chances, but the grades are the one piece of additional information that the ad com can be assured they will get.</p>
<p>Pizzagirl, it depends on the school. I checked for Cornell for last year. They waitlisted about 1200 students+ and admitted “0”.</p>
<p>My older D applied EA to BC a few years ago. She was deferred, then accepted in the RD round. She had notified them that she had qualified for the national forensics tournament as an update. She did not attend BC, I believe he EA deferral lessened her desire to go there. (She was also deferred in the EA round at Georgetown, then rejected. She has loved her 4 years at GWU.)</p>
<p>My D was waitlisted for Vanderbilt and then accepted on the first day of calls from the waitlist. She didn’t do anything special except reconfirm her interest in the school with her admissions counselor. We think she must have been right on the cusp of regular admission.</p>
<p>Lakemom… I think a deferral is different than a waitlist. I think more kids get admitted RD after a deferral than kids get off a waitlist.</p>
<p>Please do not confuse deferrals with wait listing. Some schools only accept or defer during EA, whereas some accept, reject, or defer. A deferral may mean “We like you, but lets see who else applies RD and see if you are better than then them.”. Or, it may mean “You don’t have a chance, but we do not reject during EA.” Either way, I think it is an awful thing to do a kid.</p>
<p>Wait list usually (but not always) occurs at the end of the admissions process- after all the acceptances have been sent out. Wait listed students meet the requirements for attendance, but were not fully accepted due to space constraints. If a student gets in off of a wait list varies year to year. At my d’s school, more kids accepted their offer of admission than anticipated, so no one was taken from the wait list last year. In other years, many kids from the wait list ended up attending.</p>
<p>5boys, I know the difference between deferral and waitlisting. I was responding to a quote in Pizzagirl’s post about getting off the waistlist. I wonder if there is a way to find out for a school how many who were deffered did get in RD.</p>
<p>As gsmomma, explained it can be hit or miss if someone is waitlisted after RD. </p>
<p>It is worth checking the schools stats to see what their percent of admission if waitlisted to decide if a student has any real chance of getting off the list before they get their hopes up.</p>