<p>Does anyone know if the college admissions departments look at a deferred application like a waitlisted application. In a sense, being deferred means they think you might be a good candidate for admission but they might get a better on and isn't that what waitlisted means? So the chances of getting to a college after being deferred don't seem too good. Do they not even look at the deferred applications until they have finished with the regular decision ones. Makes you kind of wish you could decide whether your application is kept in the deffered group or considered as a regular application.</p>
<p>It depends on where you go for your chances to get in, but let me first say that being deferred is not at all the same as being waitlisted. Deferred applicants are always reviewed again and are treated as regular decision applicants. Now, it depends on the school because lets say for MIT, you have the same chances of getting in early, as you do getting in after being deferred. This is from previous data on their website (MIT</a> Admissions: Admissions Statistics ). This is just because MIT limits themselves from not accepting more than a third of their class early, allowing them to accept a lot of deferred later. Now for Yale lets say, it is much harder to get in as deferred. This is because Yale accepted a whole lot of people early (880ish), which is more than 50% of the number the accept. The admit rate for early is about 18 percent. This makes it much harder for regular decision and deferred applicants as the admit rate goes down for them to about 6%, as not only are there a whole ton of regular decision/deferred applicants, they cannot accept that many because more than 50% of the spots are already taken. So it really depends on the school, but what you should take away from this is that deferred applicants are not on an early waitlist. They still have a GREAT chance of getting in.</p>