<p>In an interview with my S, an adcom used the word Deferred a lot - "it's not bad" "alot of people get deferred" and so on, w/o saying he'd deferred. So now I need to bone up on that word.</p>
<p>What does Deferred mean in an Early ACTION application? Is it an action, or not an action? In terms of desireability, is Deferred below Waitlisted?</p>
<p>Also, please explain the different responses to an EA app...</p>
<p>Accepted
Waitlisted
Deferred
Rejected</p>
<p>Deferred means put off until the Regular Decision round.
Accepted and Rejected are pretty self-explanatory, and they are final decisions.
Almost no school waitlists an applicant in the EA or ED round. They would be deferred to RD round, and ultimately waitlisted.</p>
<p>All really self-explanatory.</p>
<p>Deferred means simply that the final decision on your application has been put off until a later date. In general it's not a good sign, but with some variability from school to school, some deferred applicants will later get accepted.</p>
<p>Waitlisted means that you are rejected but were well-qualified. Thus your name has been added to a secondary list from which you might be later offered an acceptance if enough slots in the incoming class are left unfilled. In general getting in off the waitlist is a long shot.</p>
<p>thanks for the replies. We were looking to EA to get information so that we can go forward with our lives and therefore we do not have a lot of info on RD.</p>
<p>Typically, by which date are RD decisions made by the colleges? I know 5-1 is the date the student must get back to the colleges where there was an 'accepted' verdict.</p>
<p>I like my terminology - "verdict". This process somehow feels like a crime.</p>
<p>If an applicant were deferred for an EA app, at the end of the RD round, would the college then give a decisive answer of accepted, rejected?</p>
<p>After RD, are those the only two responses from a college?</p>
<p>RD decisions are made in late march or early april (most on 4-1)</p>
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If an applicant were deferred for an EA app, at the end of the RD round, would the college then give a decisive answer of accepted, rejected?</p>
<p>After RD, are those the only two responses from a college?
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<p>Yes and no. They will give a decisive answer unless they waitlist the applicant. If that happens, the applicant will have to decide if s/he wants to stay on the waitlist or move on. Some schools admit a whole bunch of waitlisted kids, some admit none.</p>