<p>what is the difference between being defered and waitlisted?</p>
<p>Deferred = you have not been officially decided on yet. You will be denied/accepted (or perhaps waitlisted too) at a later date from the school.</p>
<p>Waitlisted = you are on a special list of applicants who were not denied but not accepted either. Waitlisters are the ones who are just below the acceptance line. If the school does not matriculate as many students as they thought, or otherwise has spots open, those higher on the waitlist will be the first to be offered places.</p>
<p>Deferred usually goes along with early admission...i.e they defer you to regular admission.</p>
<p>deferred=even more equivocal and frustrating than wait-list</p>
<p>And ... it is possible to be deferred and then wait listed!</p>
<p>^yes..........</p>
<p>Wait listing occurs after the Reg Decision acceptances have gone out. The WL is the pool of other applicants that will be drawn from if not enough of the admitted students decide to matriculate.</p>
<p>Deferral is used in the context of ED/EA. A student applies EA/ED and isn't accepted nor isn't rejected -- they aren't good enough to be accepted nor bad enough to be dumped. Then they get deferred into the regular decision pool and will be compared with them. Then their outcome is the same for all RD applications: accept, reject or WL. They won't be deferred a second time.</p>
<p>I have a question, hopefully the OP doesn't mind.
If you're deferred ED/EA and moved into the regular pool, then are you still binded by the ED/EA contract?</p>
<p>^ No. (10 characters)</p>