<p>I submitted my commonapp to Uchicago before the early action deadline, but had a lot of stuff at school 2 weeks before deadline(literally worst 2 weeks of my life). I didn't finish the supplement, and I called the school and asked them to change my application from early action to regular decision which they told me they did.
I just logged on my account today and they had a decision for me on December 18th. I was deferred even though on december 18th I still haven't submitted my teacher recs and supplement yet, only my commonapp. I got all of those stuff sent in like january 1st.</p>
<p>Should I contact them? Will being deferred affect my chances? When they review my application again will they know that I didn't submit my stuff the first time?</p>
<p>The “deferral” was probably just their way of implementing your request to change the app from early action to regular decision. Though I am a little confused why you submitted the application in the first place if it was not finished. Was this just an oversight? </p>
<p>It won’t make any difference for regular decision - assuming it is now complete they will assess it along with all the others. I do not believe anyone is penalized because they were deferred and transferred to the regular decision pool.</p>
<p>I changed the app from EA to ED though during November, and the decision thing was December 18th, which I believe is the day where they give out decisions for early action.
The reason I didn’t submit my supplement was because I had a couple projects going on and had a whole bunch of tests during that week and I didn’t get around to finishing the supplement before the deadline.
Thanks</p>
<p>If it is bothering you, then call or email them and ask. It is probably just the way they process an application that gets changed from EA to RD.</p>