how many REAers deferred?

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<p>Hi.</p>

<p>So I applied early and was deferred. I'm not exactly sure how to take this. People are telling me it's an accomplisment just to be deferred to Stanford, but in reality, there's a very good chance I'll suffer the same fate as those who were rejected- just four months later. Then again, I'm still holding on to my 10% chance, despite the fact that many many qualified candidates will be applying from my school RD.</p>

<p>I'm curious to know how many people get deferred into the regular decision pile. The letter says something along the lines of "you are one of a select few" who get deferred, but how small a number is "few"?</p>

<p>also, I've heard that they defer a lot of legacies so as not to p*ss off the alummus. I am a legacy and am wondering if this is why I was deferred, as opposed to outright rejected. Is there validity in this claim?</p>

<p>I'm sure these questions have appeared in multiple threads so I apologize for duplication. I looked in a number of places but I wasn't about to go through every page of every thread to find the answer. Thanks for the help!</p>

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<p>Hi! I’m in your positition- a deferred legacy applicant. At first I felt relieved to be deferred, but then after reading some of the stuff on CC about deferred legacies, started feeling nervous. My guess is that about 500-700 of us were deferred, since I’ve read that in past years Stanford defers about 10% of the SCEA applicant pool, and then after that accepts about 10% of applicants from the deferred pool during the RD period.</p>