<p>So I was deferred after applying ED, is there anything I can do to improve my chances against the regular application pool? Should I submit the option essay or more recommendations?</p>
<p>There’s a lot you can do. :)</p>
<p>[Deferred</a> Early Decision Applicant Asks for Advice - Ask The Dean](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/000098.htm]Deferred ”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/000098.htm )</p>
<p>[College</a> Admissions - One Mother’s Saga](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_admissions/saga.htm]College ”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_admissions/saga.htm )</p>
<p>[College</a> Admissions: Deferral and Waitlists](<a href=“http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_admissions/deferral.htm]College ”>http://www.collegeconfidential.com/college_admissions/deferral.htm )</p>
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One applicant knew it was going to take all she had to get into Duke after the deferral letter came last December. So she vowed to inundate Duke with everything she could. She sent in eight additional letters of recommendations. She made countless phone calls to her admissions officer. She wrote a personal letter. And in the end, the Trinity freshman from Waxhaw, N.C., got an admittance letter in April. “I seriously stalked these people-I don’t think anyone could have sent them more crap or called them more times than I did,” she says. She doesn’t think she would have been admitted in the spring had she not filled the admissions office mailbox. “I don’t think they felt that I really went outside the box,” she says about being deferred during early decision. “I really hadn’t. I think in sending in so much they saw a lot of different sides of me. It gave them a more complete picture.” Stach, who says she considered the deferral a rejection at first, is one of many current and potential Dukies who see admissions as a game of luck. “So many people here applied to Ivy League schools, and I think any of those schools, or here, for the vast majority of people, it’s just a matter of how lucky you are, whether the admit counselors are having a good day or a bad day,” she says. “No one ever knows.”</p>
<p>[Chronicle</a> article](<a href=“http://www.dukechronicle.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&uStory_id=c5931986-d830-4039-b727-e7f47a6ac061#more]Chronicle ”>http://www.dukechronicle.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&uStory_id=c5931986-d830-4039-b727-e7f47a6ac061#more )
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<p>Thank you very much :)</p>
mattta
December 13, 2007, 10:54pm
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<p>what are your stats like??</p>