<p>We’ve got the “haven’t heard from the ED school yet blues”. Jan 15 notification date, except they sent some acceptances out early, so best friend heard 3 weeks ago. Another application waiting to go (Jan 15 application deadline) but would love to hear from RIT and save the app fee on that one. He is in at his rolling safety at least.</p>
<p>Still nothing in mail or online! Ugh.<br>
@mere24 - She’s waiting on Chapman, USD & Miami - All others were RD</p>
<p>My kids had friends apply to Chapman last year and they tend to run behind.</p>
<p>You want to read stories of blues- just read the posts for rolling admissions schools- many selective public U’s. Students are impatient to hear and many posting are deferred until a final decision in March…</p>
<p>Another “roll to regular decision” 
I am doing my best not to show my DD my anxiety. I just see no rhyme or reason for this. So many of her classmates are in the same boat - w/ all ranges of schools doing the same thing. Looks like it will be a hectic month of April for us.</p>
<p>We got the fourth deferral this week! Hang in there!!</p>
<p>OH- I found my home! Lots of deferrals here! I think EA, in retrospect, is pretty stupid these days. I think that if someone applies EA they should require that a decision be made by the student by March 1. Then the school knows exactly how many RD offers they give out. What is in it for the school to accept students EA? My son got deferred from SMU. The kids they accepted from our school, who are all superior students, have no intention of going to SMU unless all of there preferred choices don’t come through in RD. So, they are holding spots that they very likely won;t take. I don’t even understand how these schools can do enrollment management, and I predict that after the deferral will come the waitlist while they wait for these kids who aren’t going to accept to tell them. I actually kind of hate the common application- it made it very easy for everyone to apply to alot of schools. Grrrr</p>
<p>What I find mind boggling is why a lower tier school would defer an applicant who is solidly within their acceptance range on the Naviance data. Meaning, the college accepted every single person who applied in the last 10 years (from a given HS) with those same SATs and GPA. Not an edge case. And not a super selective school that rejects 4.0’s, etc. And a private school - not a state school that due to the economy has become much more selective overnight.</p>
<p>It doesn’t make any sense, unless the Naviance data is just flat out wrong (not likely). If in the end they do reject this student, it would be the first time they’ve rejected someone with those stats in 10 years.</p>
<p>The frustrating part of deferral letters is that that do not tell the applicant why they want to wait on your decision. Maybe it’s as simple as they are not organized to process these applications within these time limits.</p>
<p>Whether the colleges realize it or not, a deferral can have a discouraging affect on the applicant about wanting to ultimately enroll in that school.</p>
<p>It could be that the student who was deferred from what seemed like a match or even a safety school may have not paid much attention to the application. They may have written a quick and sloppy essay or had typos. Maybe they came across in their essay as someone who felt assured of admission and that the school would be lucky to have them enrol… That same student may have been meticulous when applying to their reach schools. </p>
<p>Also, many schools have programs that are much more selective than other programs e.g. Newhouse at Syracuse, Pharmacy at Northeastern etc. so the overall Naviance stats may not be relevant.</p>
<p>nyquist - S has received 7 yeahs, but 2 deferrals. One of the deferrals was from his first choice. His SAT’s are out of the ballpark, probably upper 5% of applicants to the school, but his GPA is in the lower middle 50%. He has great EC’s and we know he got great recs from two teachers. Both deferral schools said they wanted to see more grades. I do understand they see a kid who can but doesn’t. But, he still is doing as well as most that they admit and I can see from Naviance and on CC that they have admitted kids with lower SATs and GPAs. So he has no one but himself to blame. It is frustrating to see lower stat admits admitted when S was deferred, but all in all he has a great list of schools and I think the school that deferred him has now moved down a few notches.</p>
<p>Just a heartening story for all of you who got deferrals. Two years ago, my D got deferred from UMiami and she thought that her life was over since it was her strong first choice. She did write her interviewer a letter about her reasons and gave some new info. In early March, she got a letter saying that she was being offered a spot now before the RD notice date. So if you do have a relationship with someone, I think it is worth writing to them. By the time she got the acceptance, she had decided to go somewhere else anyway</p>
<p>I think sometimes colleges are interest in the fall grades. They want to understand if the student is keeping on track (or better yet…on the upswing) vs becoming a senior slacker.</p>
<p>I was trying to convey that in the end these type of applicants are almost certainly going to be admitted. So why drag this out, add to the stress of the process (and trigger a bunch more applications being submitted elsewhere) and possibly turn the applicant off from the school? Just admit them EA.</p>
<p>BTW, I think it is legitimate to defer an EA applicant if they have shown no demonstrated interest in the school (ie, no info session, no tour, no open house, no interview, etc.). I can understand that a school might want to hear some genuine interest before they offer admission.</p>
<p>Glad to have stumbled on this forum. . . nicely reassuring! D applied EA to 7 LACS and applied to 1 with rolling admissions. The one with rolling admissions responded first - they wanted to wait to see fall semester grades - this was at a school she visited twice and where she should have not only been competitive but eligible for scholarship support, according to their web site. She was crushed and we all had many miserable days filled with doubts. She has now been admitted to all but one of the others (still waiting) WITH scholarship offers, even from the ones she did not visit! The rolling admissions school was one of her two top choices but she has such a bad taste now she won’t consider them. It’s hard to figure out what some admissions offices are doing . . . Anyway, I also believe kids mostly end up where they should even if the route is difficult!</p>
<p>I agree. One of her deferral schools is now completely off her list, and the other two she has taken down quite a notch in her head. If two good schools are extremely welcoming, sending you repeated letters and congratulations, offering scholarships, and calling to see if you have any questions, and two schools are saying “Well, maybe in the spring we will let you come, but you weren’t our first choice” it is hard to get excited about the deferral schools. We have scheduled visits for both schools, so we will know more then, but there is a distinct cooling of the ardor for the deferrals, and for that I am very grateful. If she visits and likes these schools, I am tempted to recommend that she call the other two and tell them she is no longer interested. Has anyone else done that?</p>
<p>Yup, S has visited his deferral schools, done the interviews, demonstrated interest, etc. If these schools were big reaches I would be more understanding. Whatever, perhaps they are not the good fits and the schools see that despite S’s desire to attend. So the schools that were lower down on the list have moved up and S is happy. There are lots of schools out there and S would be happy at more than one.</p>
<p>My D is only a junior, so we haven’t gone through this yet, but last year her best friend’s sister did choose to tell 3 schools that deferred her that she was no longer interested. Her desire to attend those schools (one of which had been her first choice) went down significantly when she was deferred, and 2 other schools were showing her the love. She decided that it would be easier to become “invested” in the schools that wanted her if she cut ties with the deferral schools and was no longer waiting to learn whether she was accepted. Once she notified the deferral schools, she quickly focused on making her final choice. While many of her friends were waiting to hear from schools until April, she was “done” in February and was excited about her new school and was making plans, finding new friends from the school on Facebook, etc. According to her mom, she has never looked back.</p>
<p>Although you are in no way obliged to withdraw at any time, anyone who does withdraw from a college which deferred them is doing a big favor for all the other applicants who are still waiting to hear a final decision.</p>
<p>Misery loves company I suppose, so I’m chiming in ;)</p>
<p>My daughter applied to 3 schools. Admitted with substantial scholarhsip to 3rd choice, amitted to 2nd choice but no scholarship money, admitted EA to 1st choice (general admissions) but deferred for a seat to her intended major. She was called for a scholarship interview at the 1st choice school and gladly obliged just last week but, the bottom line is that she won’t attend unless she is seated in her major. </p>
<p>As I’m sure many are experiencing, generally, her friends have recieved decisions and therefore know where they’ll be attending. For us, we sit and wait. She has moments where she’s really down on herself – at times, I wish she was more like some posters on this thread and got down on the school instead. </p>
<p>March 1st seems like forever away!</p>
<p>I know how this feels. I applied EA to six schools, which included my top three choices overall (I applied to 10 or so). I got into my first choice, but not before getting deferred from my third. It was really disappointing and sucked, so I feel for anybody who is going through that now. Tell your kids to keep their chins up, though. You never really know what will happen. And although deferrals are crap, it’s not a rejection and, if you really wanna go to that school, by freshman year you won’t care if they accepted you RD as opposed to EA.</p>
<p>Note: What does ‘DS’ stand for? I know that D means daughter, but I just assumed people would use ‘S’ for son.</p>