ED Deferred applicants have lower acceptance rate than RD applicants?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>This is just the vibe I'm getting from the this forum so I was wondering what all your thoughts are.</p>

<p>Personally, I applied ED to Huntsman (but not Wharton) and I was deferred. It's still my NUMBER 1 school no doubt, but I'm getting bit antsy from the people who are saying that deferred students have less chance than RD applicants.</p>

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<p>The acceptance rates are roughly the same. For the Class of 2014, about 10% of deferred ED applicants were accepted in the RD round (119 out of 1,186), and about 10.9% of RD applicants were accepted (2,526 out of 23,088 RD applicants):</p>

<p>[Penn</a> Admissions: Incoming Class Profile](<a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/]Penn”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/)</p>

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<p>Perhaps a lot of deferred ED candidates were ineligible legacy applicants, whose stats may be weaker and don’t enjoy the legacy status benefit during RD. Just a guess but…maybe?</p>