<p>I got deferred. </p>
<p>Everytime I think about it, my heart sinks. I wanted to go to Penn so badly. I know there's a chance still, but everything seems so dull and blah now.</p>
<p>It's disheartening to see years of hardwork still not get you to where you want to be, but I suppose many others are feeling the same as me.</p>
<p>Oh well....I guess I'll have to move on (although I know this won't happen anytime soon).</p>
<p>You took the words right out of my mouth.
I can’t even think about how much it hurts to be deferred, I was right there but not quite…
It sucks so much. And I was looking through all the lucky ones in the fb group, torturing myself. I don’t know how I will move on. Penn is the PERFECT place for me, I need to be there, don’t give up!!! We still have another chance.</p>
<p>OMG. About the fbook thing…same here! I looked on the 2014 group and cried. It was so horrible. I wish I could’ve been one of those lucky people. </p>
<p>I’m sure everyone who got in deserved their acceptance entirely…I just wish I was among them =(</p>
<p>Would it have been easier if UPenn rejected you instead of deferred? I know being accepted would be better but at least you still have a chance.</p>
<p>Hey guys, getting deferred then accepted in the spring is a ***** (because you get to suffer other rejections), but it’s a possibility. Speaking from experience here. Write a convincing letter as to why penn is still your top choice (even if it isn’t) in like february or something.</p>
<p>yea man I’m bummed as well… Not only because i got deferred, but also because I got 2150 (perfect math scores SAT 1 and SAT 2) and 750 bio M and another guy in a similar school in my city got 1750 SAT 1, 640 and 800 SAT 2 and got accepted</p>
<p>I mean ok with holistic judgement… but if test scores count for nothing then wth…</p>
<p>Not being worthy of even a deferral hurts. 
test scores and artistic talent don’t mean anything…</p>
<p>Wow squidoop i checked up your scores, you got rejected? thats insane, I’d feel really bad too. I mean I was borderline so I was expecting a deferral, or a freak acceptance, but for you u shouldve been at worst deferred. Anyways I’m 100% sure ull end up at another great school, so goodluck :)</p>
<p>Haha, I hope so… Just sad that it definitely won’t be at Penn. it’s weird… My essays were rushed but decent,clumsy at the very worst. No serial killer vibe or anything. I hope that this just means Penn didn’t bother to look at my art portfolio… Otherwise colleges just really don’t give a crap about art. Which is the only thing that’s remotely unique about me in the ivy pool. Bleh. Time to drag myself away from the Penn board. :(</p>
<p>my first class on Monday has my Penn-recruited ED classmate…fun.</p>
<p>“I’m sure everyone who got in deserved their acceptance entirely…”</p>
<p>complete and utter lie. At least half the Wharton class is bought in.</p>
<p>greatttt. lol that makes me feel SO great. </p>
<p>But nonetheless, I am sure there are many deserving acceptances in the pack as well. Most people applying here do work hard, I’d hope.</p>
<p>Hah rest assured, I got into Wharton but did not buy in in any way…like i could afford that lol.</p>
<p>-hardworker: gl with the regular decisions round! hope you get in :)</p>
<p>Hey, hardworker, you were trying for Huntsman right? If so, I’m in the same position as you, and was deferred (although your stats are a lot more incredible than mine). Talk to your counsellor and see if you were deferred for Huntsman or CAS, but I have a pretty strong feeling that it was Huntsman for you (for me, it was anyway).</p>
<p>Idk if this helps, but Huntsman is obviously crazy hard to get into, and when I talked to the Huntsman director, they said they don’t defer often. She said that they only deferred around 3 last year. Although it’s not an acceptance, the fact that they saw enough merit in your application to defer you rather than outright reject you is great.</p>
<p>Although you may not get into Huntsman in spring, you have a fantastic shot at CAS, because they haven’t seen your application yet. The same thing happened to a girl in my school last year: she applied to Huntsman early, got deferred, then got into CAS. I really think the same will happen for you, but if not, you’ll go to a fantastic place anyway! good luck, and hope you feel better soon! :)</p>
<p>awww thanks gilmore_fan! I really really really appreciate it. See, we are also nice on this forum…wouldn’t it be so amazing if we could all have just gotten in!</p>
<p>Oh well, things don’t always work out that way! I guess time will tell what’s supposed to happen =/ </p>
<p>Good luck to you too! I hope we meet some day :)</p>
<p>My brother was deferred ED and then accepted regular decision, which does give me a bit of hope! He graduated from Penn last year so anything is possible!!!</p>
<p>I am just trying to stay positive, even though the deferral does hurt!</p>
<p>hardworker, I hope we can both get in come April!!</p>
<p>In the meantime I must do all of my other applications and supplements, joy!</p>
<p>hi everybody!</p>
<p>this is my first post in a long time, but i wanted to stop in to share with you a few of my words. i can’t even believe i’m in the penn thread right now. but i remember how devastating college rejections can be, so i wanted to come back here. i know people tell you this all the time, but it’s so true. you will end up in a school you will grow to love. things will work out! i promise! one year ago, i too applied to the huntsman program. penn was seriously my dream college. i loved everything about it. i used to spend hours on their website dreaming about one day being a student at wharton. i could probably even memorize the website for you. i couldn’t see myself elsewhere. and so i worked hard. i had 2290 SATs, had officer positions in 6 clubs, 34 ACT, took 9 AP classes. i thought i stood a fighting chance… but alas, i was rejected ED. i remember crying for weeks. life was different when the prospect of attending the school you had dreamed about for so long was gone. not only did i now have to start my other college apps, but i felt really bitter because i really thought penn was for me. you guys are already pretty good… i couldn’t come back to cc for so long because i would seriously start crying when i saw other peoples’ acceptances. i tried to make myself fall in love with other schools, but i would keep going back to penn. i know at this time, getting into your dream college is all you think about because that was all i thought about. but one year later, you will realize that you will be happy anywhere you go. i wish i could go back in time with everything i know now. i would have saved myself a lot of tears!</p>
<p>okay, i took a quick break from studying for finals to write that. but i hope it made you feel better! i really do understand your situation, and i just want to tell you that everything will work out. you will find your place in whatever college you end up in! 
you hear it over and over again, but it’s TRUE!!! im currently a very happy freshman in college, and though i will always have a place in my heart for penn, i know that the college i ultimately ended up in, is right for me. remember, there’s no perfect college! there’s just a college that is a perfect fit for you. i know that you think it’s penn (trust me, i thought i KNEW penn was for me), but everything will work out for the better!</p>
<p>Wow, thank you so much for that reply. Well many people have said that to me, I guess I can’t really believe it until it is official that I will not be attending Penn come Fall. </p>
<p>I do appreciate all the support I have gotten from CC, and I think it would be harder to be alone with my deferral, be being with other die hard Penn lovers it makes me feel somewhat better.</p>
<p>I feel the same way. I’m trying to stop coming to this board…but somehow, I always end up here!!! Arghhhh…sometimes life sucks, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>Would you like to share the college where you are now happy??? That might give us a good idea!</p>