<p>I got deferred EA. I think I am a fairly competitive candidate with good stats and the addition of doing well at MITES. The only problem was that I was suspended early in 10th grade and I wrote an extensive explanation of the events, and how I reformed. Is there any way I could find out if this is the reason why I got deferred? If this is the case, fixing my application status would be really hard.</p>
<p>it depends on why you got suspended</p>
<p>either way, do we have the option of calling in or contacting somebody to figure out why we were deferred?</p>
<p><a href="http://tim.mitblogs.com/archives/2005/12/post-early-acti.html%5B/url%5D">http://tim.mitblogs.com/archives/2005/12/post-early-acti.html</a>
I read your blog entries and my heart breaks - because as Matt and Ben have told you, we took so many fewer this year (~12%) as we had 10% more applicants. We only have so many spots, so many rooms on campus, and so many of you are perfect for MIT in every way.</p>
<p>You can try calling the admin office, but I really doubt they'll tell you anything - they've really got far too much to do to tell every deferred/rejected applicant why they weren't accepted. To date, I don't know why I was deferred (I even have my E3 card, and it only says good things, so <em>shrugs</em>). However, if you have an idea of why you might've been deferred, you can always submit appeal-like supplemental materials to boost your position a little - I did that.</p>
<p>How did you get your E3 card?</p>
<p>get your counselor to call. They are more likely to get the unvarnished truth than you are if it was the suspension.</p>
<p>Before this year, you could get your E3 card per request as an enrolled student. Now they destroy them.</p>