<p>hey, does anyone know if getting deferred EA will increase chances of RD acceptance? or is there a lesser chance?</p>
<p>lesser. i think the stats are 18-27% of deferred applicants accepted, compared to a 36% acceptance rate RD.</p>
<p>Sucks to be us.</p>
<p>All ED/EA school can be thought of this way: "If they don't like someone the first time, why would they like them the second time?"</p>
<p>Remember that there's a lot you can do if you're deferred. Many deferrees are rejected because they give up and wait for a decision in March.</p>
<p>but arent EA applicants in a more competitive pool?</p>
<p>what can i do? send in an updated resume? i havent done much in the past 2 months though.. ahh!!</p>
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One applicant knew it was going to take all she had to get into Duke after the deferral letter came last December. So she vowed to inundate Duke with everything she could. She sent in eight additional letters of recommendations. She made countless phone calls to her admissions officer. She wrote a personal letter. And in the end, the Trinity freshman from Waxhaw, N.C., got an admittance letter in April. "I seriously stalked these people-I don't think anyone could have sent them more crap or called them more times than I did," she says. She doesn't think she would have been admitted in the spring had she not filled the admissions office mailbox. "I don't think they felt that I really went outside the box," she says about being deferred during early decision. "I really hadn't. I think in sending in so much they saw a lot of different sides of me. It gave them a more complete picture." Stach, who says she considered the deferral a rejection at first, is one of many current and potential Dukies who see admissions as a game of luck. "So many people here applied to Ivy League schools, and I think any of those schools, or here, for the vast majority of people, it's just a matter of how lucky you are, whether the admit counselors are having a good day or a bad day," she says. "No one ever knows."
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