<p>I'm just curious because when ED applicants are deferred, they are moved into the RD pool. However, will they have a slight advantage? b/c adcoms will know that they applied ED and that demonstrates their "commitment" to the school.</p>
<p>Probably not. After all, they did pass you over once too. I would not count on any advantage over RD students. In fact, I tend to advise people that unless their GC gets a signal from the school, move on and treat it like a regular RD app. If you’ve got a close second that has ED2, go for that. Our HS didn’t have many ED applicants last year, but I don’t believe any who waited got in RD. EA is a different matter, but the yield there isn’t that great either.</p>
<p>Don’t hang around waiting for the girl to change her mind after she turned you down - she usually doesn’t.</p>
<p>Ah ok thanks. Bump</p>
<p>Many schools don’t defer ED at all. Some defer a lot. For those that just defer a few, it might be a good idea to call someone in admissions and ask them what is up. Perhaps they want a little higher SAT Math score or want to see another semester of good grades at hard classes. </p>
<p>They already had a chance to take you when they did the ED round, and they were fully aware of your committment. So I’m not seeing any advantage there. Being “deferred” at many schools is just a cover. Some, like Stanford, are honest and will reject just about everyone they didn’t accept ED. Being deferred means you are really on the fence. But at many schools almost everyone who wasn’t accepted ED is put into the RD round; adcoms thinks this lets the kids think they “still have a chance” and “they’ll take another look”. In fact for the majority of those kids they already know the answer, its just PR to put them in the RD round.</p>
<p>So if you want to know, call your school and ask how many were rejected outright in ED and how many were deferred. </p>
<p>@84stag @mikemac That makes sense. I think I’m gonna call and ask. Thanks!</p>
<p>When applicants are deferred, their applications are put back into the RD pool and looked over again. There isn’t really much of an advantage but the college will see that you applied early and are eager to get into the school so maybe that will help a little. </p>
<p>Being deferred provides no advantage to your application as is.</p>
<p>Being deferred may provide you with a tactical advantage in that you have received feedback directly from admissions that your application, as is, is not so bad as to deny you, but is also not good enough to admit you – YET. You can use this opportunity to improve your application, send them additional information/fresh grades/recommendations/etc. RD applicants do not get this free round of direct feedback, they get only one chance to get it right.</p>
<p>If your application is exactly the same when they look at it in RD as it was in EA/ED, then there’s no reason to think they’ll suddenly like it more. You need to revise and augment it to breathe new life into it.</p>
<p>It depends upon the school. Some schools defer most all ED/EA students with few or no denials. In such cases, the % of acceptances from that pool is going to be low. Those schools that are more selective about who they defer may have acceptance rates similar to those in the RD pool among those deferred. You can ask what the accept rate or look it up via google if available as to what the% is at any given school of those accepted after deferral.</p>
<p>Deferral also gives you a chance to beef up the app and the stats. Had my son been deferred, he would have been studying for SAT2s during winter break, and possibly giving the SAT1 or ACT another go. One should also ask the GC for some ideas as to how improve your application.</p>
<p>Thanks @cptofthehouse @FCCDAD
Yeah, I got deferred from Cornell University. I think their deferred rates are pretty high (they don’t release stats) so that’s not good news lol.</p>
<p>Do you guys think they look at the deferred pool last? I feel like they don’t give a thorough second overview like they claim :(</p>