<p>We have numbers on the % of ED acceptances, but what about the % of ED deferrals and rejections?</p>
<p>I think I read somewhere that about 40% are accepted, 30% rejected, and 30% deferred....</p>
<p>that makes a lot of sense, but think about this, if regular rate is 30 percent and deferral rate is 30%, then only about 3/10*3/10 = 9/100 = 9% of ED deferrals will actually be accepted, what a bummer, i wish i didn't realize that :(</p>
<p>if i get in it'll probably be something sketchy like:
applied ED -> deffered -> waitlisted -> accepted :/</p>
<p>Haha yeah I didn't really do the math...but my college consultant said that there's virtually no chance of a deferral being accepted...they usually only defer students b/c they are too good of candidates to flat out reject w/o cornell having to explain to mad ppl...so they defer them to make them feel better</p>
<p>LOGICAL, isnt it?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?</p>
<p>Umm...no...if you go by the averages, the deferral acceptance rate (hmm sounds weird) is 30%...9% is the percentage of people who will be deferred and accepted later on; 30% of ED deferrals will be accepted (though I'm willing to bet less, because the ED pool is probably weaker).</p>
<p>i think towerpumpkin is right... so since 9% of ED candidates will be deferred and eventually get accepted, that means that about 50% (40% of ED accepted right away + the 9%) of total ED candidates are eventually accepted</p>
<p>but then again, the percent of deferred EDers isn't necessarily 9%. If you are deferred, you are considered more "competitive" in the RD applicant pool. In other words, a deferred EDer has a better chance of being accepted during the RD round than an RDer. The Cornell admissions website even confirms this. It also says that most EDers who aren't accepted in December are deferred to the RD pool.</p>