<p>If a student gets deferred (ED), does he/she have a higher chance of getting in during the RD process?</p>
<p>Don’t know if AdComms have this stat but theoretically the deferred gets reviewed with all the other RD apps. I know someone deferred from Yale last yr–who was rejected in RD round. (he did get into Stanford and Princeton)</p>
<p>No, because if the school wanted the student they would have accepted ED, and in RD there is a much larger pool of applicants.</p>
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I agree with the responses. I was deferred from once my top choice (University of Michigan) but after deferrel I no longer see how I could still favor the school in such ways. With a deferrel your basically a RD application with statistically even more competition.</p>
<p>There are 2 types of deferrals. The 1st is a student that is genuinely on the fence, and in the RD round of reviews their demonstrated preference via ED may be a tipping factor.</p>
<p>However it is much more likely that “deferred” students fall into the category of “rejected but we don’t want to tell you yet”. People like to think options are still open, and it is psychologically painful when they are closed. As Dan Ariely writes in his book “Predictably Irrational” people will pay extra for complicated features on computers or cameras they don’t understand or have any intention of using, just in case some day in the future they may decide they need them. See an interesting article about this at <a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/science/26tier.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/science/26tier.html</a> The flip side, of course, is that when options are taken away that causes distress.</p>
<p>So students that are deferred prefer to think they “still have a chance” when the truth is highly selective colleges know what they expect to see in admitted students and after the ED reading know that many of those students don’t have any chance at all of admission. The apps are filed in the rejected folder. But rather than notifying them and creating some ill-will for their school, they choose to go along with the fiction “still have a chance” and send out the rejection letter after the RD round.</p>
<p>No, usually for deferred kids, the chances of getting in are actually really low. Unless you’re really borderline or they want to see your semester grades for some reason, they probably deferred you because they just don’t want you, and they want to see if the RD applicant pool is stronger or weaker than the deferred ED kids. Sad.</p>
<p>Both post above point out clearly my ideal of deferrels. I’ve explain deferrels similar to other students at school and cc, but most seem ( at least for cc) that deferrels are a “okay better chance next time” ( in reality its not at all).</p>
<p>Deferr A l, not deferr E l. Sorry, it’s that LAC education that haunts me.</p>
<p>As I understand it, part of the reason for ED deferrals is also connected with legacy and athletic admits, which sometimes crowd out likely candidates who are then accepted RD. I have known several kids accepted RD to top tier schools (Dartmouth, Carleton, Williams to name a few), who were deferred in the ED round.</p>
<p>But you don’t have a higher percentage chance of being selected than those applying RD.</p>
<p>I am a little confused based on a lot of things I have read all over</p>
<p>1) It is said that the ED/EA pool is usually stronger than the RD pool. So you might be on the boderline in the ED/EA pool but in the solid zone in the RD pool. At least that is the way I view it logically but then not all adcom decisions are necessarily logical to the public. If that is the case, should not deffered candidates be in a slightly stronger position even if they are more candidates in RD as they were borderline in a stronger pool?
2) What do adcoms gain by not notifying the decision once they make it? By putting a person in the rejected pile but deferring them, how does it help the adcoms? In other words, if they want to hurt the feelings early on, why not deffer everyone? Why a reject a lot and deffer a few? They are hurting the feelings for say 60% of the ED/EA candidates by rejecting them, why not hurt the feelings of say 65% or 70% of the candidates (I am just pulling numbers out of the hat) by notifying everyone who has been rejected? </p>
<p>So to me, the chances should go higher, though everything I have heard is that chances are lower. May be it is me that does not understand the logic.</p>
<p>Some colleges play games others don’t. The ethical ones that don’t want a student, reject the student at ED time. For those moved to the RD pool, they really want to see senior grades and stack them up against other candidates before making their final selection. </p>
<p>Certainly that a student was ready to commit to a school (ED) is a great indication that the student will accept RD. Schools like applicants that really want that school. These candidates probably help the numbers for a lot of stats besides the ‘accepted and enrolled’ stat such as the first year retention rate.</p>