<p>millerw16, I COMPLETELY understand how you are feeling. Being deferred (you were deferred, correct?) is not fun. The way I'm taking it (and it took me a day to realize this-- for the first 24 hours i was an emotional wreck) is I'm going to do everything I can to strengthen my application. Being deferred does NOT mean you are out--think of it as a second chance to prove to admissions that you ARE meant to go to amherst. Hopefully, if all goes well you and I will both be recieving an acceptance letter this spring:) What other schools are you looking at in addition to amherst?</p>
<p>and also... i heard DIRECTLY from an admissions rep. that they let in about 25 deferrals last year. However, I'm not sure what the total number of deferrals was--anyone have an idea on this? Also, how many people were rejected?</p>
<p>hey,</p>
<p>Well, I'm taking a long shot at Brown and Williams, for the sake of trying (my GPA kills me with these two once again). I am looking at Wesleyan, Middlebury, Bowdoin, and Pomona. In the bottom tier of schools (non-reach but not completely safe either): Emory (double legacy and their Dalai Lama program ties in nicely with the fact that I saw the guy speak in India for a good essay topic) and Northwestern. Then my safety is UMich (I have really good connections there and whatnot).</p>
<p>The problem with me proving myself is that senioritis hit early. My grades have all dropped, and most are not As, and my C+ in AP Biology is still that. I have little time to correct all of this so I am just freaking out trying to ace every test in the coming week or so, and then kill my midterms with flying colors, but this is difficult. My best case scenario is somewhat maintaining all of my grades from last quarter, and then getting a B in AP Biology for the semester. The connection factor might play in but, who knows! </p>
<p>25 deferrals out of 180 last year.</p>
<p>Thats a 14% chance to get in hehe. Not great statistics. You have to reckon that most deferrals are just kind rejections (they only rejected a conspicious 40 of 300 ED applicants). So if you really thought you should've gotten in, you might have better than the 14% chance, but you are in the RD pool which is unpleasant. </p>
<p>The way I found out was terrible, and it took about 3 minutes to fully absorb what I read. The next two weeks of my life are going to be absolute hell, when I thought I'd be relaxing and just enjoying my remaining 16 saturdays of high school, going at my own pace (not failing obviously) but, nope! I have to now try hard, VERY hard in fact, in several classes whose subjects I don't enjoy (endemic to going to a school with a narrow curriculum) taught by teachers many of whom I don't particularly like.</p>
<p>yeah... i got deferred too. say goodbye to amherst. i don't even know why i thought i could get in.</p>
<p>On ProShop54's thread, I put a template for admission decisions/stats.
Congrats to the acceptances and good luck to the deferrals!</p>
<p>BTW, this is GA2012MOM's D-I got my own screen name.</p>
<p>I was deferred too :( i cried for a couple of hours. I'm so distressed now that i have to do other applications. i feel like i won't get in anywhere, and now reading that only 25 out of 180 people who were deferred got accepted RD makes me really nervous :/</p>
<p>no one rejected so far? congrats to all the acceptances and good luck to those deferred. we'll be duking it out in the regular decision pool. ;)</p>
<p>yeah I haven't heard of any rejections so far... is deferral just a nice way of rejecting you without having to finalize it immediately?
gahh I want it to be April already, I can't wait to hear for the second response!</p>
<p>oh, and yes, we will be duking it out in the RD pool, hehe. good luck, I hope a lot of deferrals get in, because I know how much it sucks to be deferred at your dream school!</p>
<p>I have to share a story with all of you students who were deferred for ED at Amherst. EJR knows who I am from last year. My D was totally in love with Amherst. She visited two times and stayed overnight. She had a unique and fantastic resume filled with honors, great grades,atheletics, a playwriter etc. She even met ejr's D for lunch. She was deferred ED. She was devastated! She remained very upset for a week. Then she redirected her energies into completing her other applications. Very very few deferred kids got in to class of 2011. My D was rejected at Amherst RD. However by that time she was totally over Amherst. She felt that it was Amherst's loss not her loss. She was accepted at a number of great lacs and chose to go to Wesleyan where she is at this moment researching two papers and studying for finals and having the time of her life. She loves Wes and cannot imagine being anywhere else. It is a fantastic school and turned out to be a perfect fit for her.</p>
<p>The moral of the story to u kids who were deferred at Amherst is to mourn for a few days, put Amherst out of your mind because the chances of RD acceptance are slim to none. You all will get in to great schools that u will love. Do NOT focus on your loss, focus on your great choices that will be yours in April.(It really will arrive soon.) I know this is hard to wrap your minds around now.</p>
<p>Amherst is a great school, one of the best. I offer my congrats to all who got in ED. </p>
<p>So guys, cheer up. The best is just a few months ahead.</p>
<p>Dana's Dad</p>
<p>Well said, Dana's Dad, and we all bet she would have been accepted. No one really can say who will be accepted or why. D is in love with Amherst, but was rejected from first choice, and then accepted at second choice, which didn't give her enough FA, so she had to turn it down (double disappointment). Amherst wasn't even in her radar until December, when she filed at he last minute. It worked for danalynne and for my D. No matter what happens, it will work for you, too.</p>
<p>I got deferred too.. Is anyone doing EDII at another school? Amherst was most definitely not my one and only so now I am debating whether to take the shot at another school.</p>
<p>It has been my understanding, from reading about Amherst for many years and sending one kid there (an '05), that Amherst is no a fan of the whole ED process. Not that they don't love whoever they admit ED!! They do!</p>
<p>What I mean is that, around 5 years and under the previous President, they convened a meeting in partnership with Harvard, taking a lead role to trying to encourage other top LAC's and Ivies to consider, as a group, to stop participating in the whole ED system. They couldn't get enough mutual agreement, and weren't willing to do it alone, so it stayed in place at Amherst. As I recall, their stated reasons for concern were that it pressured all students to decide too early in their high school careers on a first choice. As well, it seemed particularly hard on URM applicants whose school guidance offices are not geared towards ED deadlines from private schools. I got the impression that Amherst's and Harvard's desire to end ED was really a progressive attempt to encourage minority applicants by leveling the playing field re: awareness and dates/deadlines. </p>
<p>Several years back, and maybe it's still true, Amherst specifically did NOT try to pack up their freshman class full of ED's. It's to their advantage to wait and look at the entire pool in the RD round. My S's informal impression, as a student, was that when he met an ED, it was most often legacy, athlete or URM. Everyone else got in at RD time. </p>
<p>Other schools, such as Brown, view the issue differently and fill up a much bigger percentage of their class via ED.</p>
<p>If Amherst takes you ED, it could be because they're not wanting to lose you to elsewhere. That's a very different psychology than using ED to fill up the freshman class.</p>
<p>I think that could be a hopeful thought for those deferred in the ED round.
I don't have the statistics on it, but 7 years ago I believe the % of class taken ED was below 20%, as compared to Brown which filled up 40% with the ED's.</p>
<p>My hope for anyone deferred now is to dry the tears, work on all the other applications, and hope for the next round at Amherst and elsewhere. And don't think there was anything so wrong with your application, either. They have only 1800 students in the entire school, so just 450 freshman seats. So few spots to offer. I recall them writing in my S's year that they turned away enough fullly qualified applicants to have made "three freshman classes." Don't disbelieve in your own application, not even a little bit.</p>
<p>I was deferred, and it was definitely a disappointment. Especially considering one of my teachers either never sent in my recommendation or sent it in 2.5-3 weeks late, so I don't know if I would have gotten in with the letter :(</p>
<p>^^(time out from post #72)</p>
<p>or did they say (at RD time): "had to turn away enough to make 3 more Amherst colleges.." </p>
<p>Anyway you get the idea. I'm trying to console here. The meaningful statistic is probably how many changed over in previous years from ED deferrals into RD admits, but I don't know if that's published at Amherst or elsewhere. </p>
<p>Am seconding another poster who corrected: "no movement" last year WAS about Amherst not picking up candidates off the waitlist created at RD time, in response tot he previous year's overenrolment.</p>
<p>"No movement" certainly was NOT about the issue of changeover from ED deferral to RD admit.</p>