<p>from my ED school. What do I do???</p>
<p>And would any of you happen to know how big the Davidson wait list is? I mean...does WL=automatic rejection?</p>
<p>Well, a lot of us got deferred from our Early Action or Early Decision school. So, now you have to apply to a few more colleges, to make sure that if the worst happens, you have a few places to choose from.</p>
<p>Mwellington, the advice about getting your other apps in is good advice.</p>
<p>As far as continuing to target your first choice school, be sure to provide them with an update of any important news. You could also submit new supplemental materials, though that strategy is a bit dicey. Be sure they know you are still highly interested - enthusiasm counts at most colleges.</p>
<p>I think you might be confusing the wait list with being deferred. Deferred applicants go into the RD pool to be considered again. Absent new information, the odds in RD probably aren't that great, but deferred applicants do get accepted in the RD round. Good luck!</p>
<p>A deferral is not an automatic rejection; there's a lot you can do. </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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<p>Keep the adcom updated through out the rest of the year.</p>