<p>So this is something I've been wondering about for a while, but for some reason (unless I'm just the worst Googler ever), there are NO STATISTICS available online regarding the RD acceptance rate of deferred applicants at Harvard. Does anybody happen to know? Just a curiosity thing :D</p>
<p>For class of 2016, they accepted about 100 out of 2,838 deferred students. So that’s about 3.5%…</p>
<p>I got 100 from this article [Harvard</a> Accepts 18 Percent of Early Admission Applicants | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/12/13/early-admissions-regular-action/]Harvard”>Harvard Accepts 18 Percent of Early Admission Applicants | News | The Harvard Crimson) and 2,838 from this article [Harvard</a> College early action admits 772 for class of 2016 | Harvard Magazine](<a href=“http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/12/harvard-college-early-action-admits-772-for-class-of-2016]Harvard”>http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/12/harvard-college-early-action-admits-772-for-class-of-2016).</p>
<p>I am surprised those articles have the exact number of students deferred. Very few colleges provide that information. I note that, in both of the last two years, 2/3 of the early applicants were deferred, and in the remaining third that got an actual decision acceptances slightly outnumbered rejections.</p>
<p>Every indication I have ever seen is that deferred applicants have pretty much an average chance of acceptance in the RD pool. Which means most are ultimately rejected, but some aren’t.</p>
<p>[Harvard</a> Accepts 18 Percent of Early Admission Applicants | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“Harvard Accepts 18 Percent of Early Admission Applicants | News | The Harvard Crimson”>Harvard Accepts 18 Percent of Early Admission Applicants | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>Last years numbers
895 Early Admits
3,196 Deferrals
651 Rejections
~100 Regular admits from the deferrals</p>