<p>There’s no way to know how the admissions committee makes its decisions. But it would be a mistake to attribute a surprising deferral or rejection to yield protection. Yale and its peer schools have no need to employ yield protection tactics. They know that every student they admit is likely to matriculate. Sure, HYPS are all going to lose some (often to one another), but these schools admit who they want to admit, do their best to court each admitted student, and let the chips fall where they may.</p>
<p>^Yep, and then there’s the rest of us deferrees 
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<p>I was completely expecting to get deferred, but still… it’s just unsettling. And I honestly don’t think I can get into anywhere better than my state school (that’s actually WORTH its price). Goodbye winter break… hello neglected pile of college apps :(</p>
<p>So… What’s the rate for deferred students to be accepted in April?</p>
<p>^around the rd rate (5-6%)</p>
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Or maybe you’ll all get in during RD. Isn’t that a possibility? Maybe they just want to look at the totality of the class they assemble and how you fit in.</p>
<p>Lol today my mom and I were making breakfast and she said “You know, maybe it’s a good thing you were deferred. I’ve heard Yale is dangerous” and I disagreed. Literally, right then on the news is BREAKING NEWS: BOMBS FOUND IN NEW HAVEN, CT. Perhaps she was right? :)</p>
<p>Hey Nikkor50 - I haven’t closed the tab yet. Bit scared too, think it won’t be there later :)</p>
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<p>A negligibly remote one.</p>
<p>^I disagree. I have no proof to substantiate this, but I remember being told that the adcom doesn’t get around to all of the applications and thus throws the ones it hasn’t assessed into the RD pool. If this is true, I’m almost certain that your EA deferral will have no bearing on the ultimate decision.</p>
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<p>I find that a tad implausible. It’s a comforting possibility, however.</p>
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<p>In any case, I was dismissing only the idea that all CC deferrees would be accepted during RD.</p>
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<p>To the contrary; a note saying something along the lines of “SCEA applicant. Was not reviewed” doesn’t sound too far-fetched. </p>
<p>Nevertheless, Yale is just one school, and I think that the deferred applicants were implicitly told, “Compared to applicants of the past, you’re certainly viable, but we’d like to see how you would stack up against applicants of the future” (the latter group is probably not going to be any different from the RDers of the past few years anyway). I don’t know if you guys are seeing where I’m going with this. You should know that, seeing as how Yale is on-the-fence about you, you would, therefore, have to have a major irreparable flaw to not be admitted by one of Yale’s peers.</p>
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<p>Isn’t it pretty to think so?
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<p>^It would make more sense if Yale had seen an enormous increase in SCEA apps, but the numbers remained about the same.</p>
<p>silverturtle, I think I remember reading that your intended major was Undecided…perhaps that had some bearing on your deferral?</p>
<p>the selection (or rather no selection) of a major has no bearing on an acceptance from Yale.</p>
<p>^My hypothesis is that applying Undecided further unfocuses the application of a well-rounded applicant. Just a hypothesis, of course.</p>
<p>Wow, after seeing the number of outstanding applicants deferred, I learned that I have absolutely no chance and shouldn’t even apply next year.</p>
<p>^Actually, You DO have a chance because all these amazing applicants were DEFERRED.</p>
<p>Yeah, but then chances of them getting admitted are a mere 6% or something. It’s not exactly comforting. Plus, a lot of them had much more impressive stats than I do.</p>
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<p>If there’s anything you should have learned from this thread, it’s that “impressive stats” are not a requirement.</p>
<p>^or even relevant for that matter.</p>