<p>The reason I ask is that I saw a few people's stats who were deferred, and I thought my stats were better which gave me hope because if the got deferred, then they must have been slightly competitive meaning I have a shot of getting into Wake.</p>
<p>While we're on the topic, can you chance me for RD?</p>
<p>white male from the great state of Connecticut</p>
<p>3.75 unweighted GPA (first quarter senior grades AP History A-, AP Calculus A-, British Literature Honors A)</p>
<p>ideal grade progression</p>
<p>1370 and 2070 on the SAT</p>
<p>15/190 class rank</p>
<p>All honors classes and 3 out of the 5 AP classes my schools has </p>
<p>I am a Wesleyan High School Scholar. Every other day I leave school and take "Principles of Chemistry I" there. I was accepted again for next semester, and I am taking "Principles of Chemistry II" next semester. I finished the course with one of the higher grades in the class with an A-/A. I am hoping they consider this because obviously Wesleyan is one of the best schools in the country, and it proves that I can succeed.</p>
<p>~40 hours of community service (probably the killer here)</p>
<p>Founder, former president, former vice-president, and current secretary/treasurer of the "Support Our Nation" Club</p>
<p>Founder and vice-president of the Tutoring Club</p>
<p>President and former treasurer of the International Culture Club</p>
<p>hmm thats a good question i was deferred as well. im very nervous because i think that if they wanted to accept me early, they would have, so im not counting on getting accepted regularly.</p>
<p>This is an interesting topic. I see many schools have many , many defers and very few deny's.
A Providence College adcom referred to this as a soft deny , don't know the origin of this phrase. Providence did defer and deny and denies for EA. I would be interested to see if any other schools have an official policy on this manner.</p>
<p>Quote from PC - Providence</a> College: Scott Seseske</p>
<p>"There are many students who are just a notch below the top of our pool (the students we invited) who received defer letters in the mail... And it is important to note here that when we defer a student EA, it is because we do see that student being competitive in our Regular Decision review process - in other words, a defer should not be interpreted as a "soft deny." For students who are deferred, their applications will be considered again during the Regular Decision review process in the context of our entire applicant pool.</p>
<p>In addition to inviting and deferring students EA, we also denied a number of students at Early - this is a final decision and students who received an EA deny cannot apply again during Regular Decision. The reason we deny students at Early is because our review processes are very similar at Early and Regular... and therefore, if a student is clearly not competitive in our EA pool, we know that he/she will not be competitive in our Regular Decision pool either. So, instead of deferring that student knowing that we will eventually deny him or her in March, we feel it is better for the student to learn the decision in December so he/she can move on to other college options."</p>
<p>I personally wasn't deferred. I just feel if other people with somewhat weaker stats than mean are getting deferred instead of denied that mean they are competitive.</p>
<p>Your stats seem good man,</p>
<p>and for the record in my hall of 18 guys at Wake.
5 of them are from Connecticut. There are a lot of
people here from CT. So that may make you feel
better also = )</p>