<p>Which one is better to receive from a college? Better chances of getting in?</p>
<p>Deferred is better…means you will be moved to pool of regular decision applicants and start again. Waitlist is used only if regular admits - including deferred that have been accepted- don’t enroll in large enough numbers. Depending on the school, wait lists can be impossible to get off…at best, a great big maybe…</p>
<p>it depends on each college.</p>
<p>The question is kind of like asking whether birthday cake is better than an umbrella. They’re completely different things, and they occur in completely different situations.</p>
<p>As sdgal said, being deferred can happen to you only if you apply to a college under early decision or early action. The college decides that it will neither admit you nor reject you at the early decision date; they’d rather wait and see. So they ask you to send in grades from your first semester of senior year, and a mid-year report from your school, and then they re-evaluate your application in February-March with the regular decision applicants. So, being deferred is not nearly as good as being admitted, but much better than being denied, because many deferred applicants are eventually admitted in March.</p>
<p>Being waitlisted happens in March, when the regular decisions come out. Colleges know how many students they want in their freshman class, and they have a pretty good sense how many applicants they must admit in order to get a freshman class of the desired size. (Remember, not all of the students admitted will actually enroll. A lot of people are admitted to more than one college.) After the college has admitted what it thinks will be enough students to populate the freshman class, they offer other students–usually people that the college would be perfectly happy to have, but whom they didn’t have room for–a place on the wait list. This is better than being denied admission, but not as good as being admitted. A lot of selective colleges have long wait lists from which they take very few applicants. If you’re waitlisted at one of those colleges, it essentially amounts to being told, “We really liked you, but we ran out of room.”</p>
<p>Sikorsky, what about transfers?</p>
<p>Deferred still means that a decision has been postponed. Because that’s what the word means.</p>
<p>And waitlisted still means, essentially, “No for now. We might come back to you, but don’t count on it.”</p>
<p>Rvent: The terms “deferred” or “waitlisted” are for first time applicants and do not refer to you who is awaiting a yes/no decision by Louisville on your transfer application.</p>
<p>You need to telephone Louisville like I advised you on another thread. Have you done so? What did they tell you when you should hear a reply?</p>
<p>T26E4 I will and the reason why I’m posting this is because you fully didn’t answer my question, now I got it thanks</p>