<p>for sliiiightly less selective colleges? Like Northwestern, Pomona, Washington University etc...</p>
<p>Do you mean will it influence your chances at those schools? No, whether another school rejects/accepts/ or denies you will not influence the admissions staff of another school (oh wow! this guy got into Yale, he must be good for us kind of thing).</p>
<p>As a marker, I guess it shows that you are at "that level" and thus have a shot at slightly less selective schools</p>
<p>Yea, it doesn't do anything at all for other schools.</p>
<p>also curious about the meaning of deferral...</p>
<p>does the deferral actually show the level of a person( level which is between AD and RJ of Stan) </p>
<p>if it doesnt hav any influence over other sch,wat about over stanford itself?</p>
<p>will a person defered be less likely to be admitted than those simply does RD providing they hav almost the same stats?</p>
<p>valkyriev, yeah deferees at stanford only have 10% chance of getting in (opposed to 13%) and yeah i was wondering if the deferrall meant that i was at a certain level or if they just defer a ton of applicants</p>
<p>Historically, Stanford has only deferred 10% of early applicants, and either rejected or accepted the rest. This year they accepted 16% of early applicants. My son was deferred 2 years ago, was eventually rejected at Stanford, but was accepted at Pomona, Wash U, Dartmouth, Brown, and 10 other colleges. So maybe the deferral is a polite way of saying "your good enough kid, but we just don't have room for you" [ My conjecture] . I have also heard from others [ we live next to Stanford, and there are many local students who apply there] that a deferral by Stanford is usually a nice way of saying "no".</p>
<p>^Completely agree. </p>
<p>At my school, which is one of the ones next to Stanford, a deferral has never turned into an acceptance. They decided to defer 2 of our students, take 1, and reject the rest. Those 2 are probably not getting in... There were actually some rejected students who I thought were more qualified than those 2, but that's just me. So, a deferral from Stanford does not really say much. A lot of deferred applicants are very good; however, there are also some who are less than stellar. Legacies always get deferred, and I don't think that alll of them are qualified to get into Stanford. Your chances at other highly selective universities really depend on your own stats, EC's, recs, etc. and not Stanford's decision.</p>
<p>I think the OP was not asking if the Stanford deferral will somehow influence other schools, but rather whether the deferral (rather than rejection) was a sign she is at a level likely to get accepted to other less stringent schools. And the answer is yes; Stanford is one of the honest EA/ED schools that will reject candidates it knows it will not (based on their experience) need to accept. Since they reject so many in EA, a deferral is a sign of strength (even if not of eventual acceptance to Stanford).</p>
<p>What I meant to say in my post was that a deferral by Stanford is not necessarily a sign of strength, although it may be a lot of the times. The people who got deferred at my school are not that strong at all (SAT scores are only ~2000) and do not have a very high chance RD at any of the universities the OP mentioned. This is just to say that it depends entirely on your own individual application and not necessarily on what Stanford thought. Stanford is known to be more random than most of the universities mentioned above. They sometimes take "weaker" applicants over stronger ones to diversify the class (this has occurred numerous times at my high school), so a rejection from Stanford doesn't mean much either.</p>
<p>I think Stanford usually prefers people from outside the Bay Area. If you are from the Bay Area, you have to be really good( and I don't mean just stats) to be accepted to Stanford. I mean your application has to stand out.</p>