<p>I'm willing to bet more than every other person here on this board with high hopes of harvard (hey, alliteration), will get a deferral message come EA decisions come out.</p>
<p>Just a reality check.</p>
<p>I'm expecting a deferral message.</p>
<p>Sure, a look at previous years' stats shows that the majority of EA applicants get deferred.</p>
<p>Ouch- point taken. <em>weeps and runs away</em></p>
<p>wow thank you so much Joe, your little reality check is so useful and helpful i really cant begin to express how it has affected me</p>
<p>lol i like how at the princeton (maybe yale, whatever) stat roster, they have this thing where half the people were accpted! only one person was rejected! of course the people who were rejected didnt post there and skewed the whole roster. doing those little percent of cc's doenst serve any practical purpose, but i guess they think its fun.</p>
<p>how many people who get deferred are actually accepted RD? I'm telling you......it's a game of heads or tails.</p>
<p>Shark_bite it is statistically true that at Princeton more applicants are deferred than rejected in the ED round, so the CC statistics on that thread were pretty accurate. Also, more than one person was actually rejected on that stat roster, but they decided to keep the names off of the updated lists so as not to not rub it in. </p>
<p>I am actually thankful to the OP (unlike spydertennis it seems) because I need people to tell me that I have a low chance of early admission (next year Pton). I keep dreaming of acceptance and I know it will hurt "when" I am deferred.</p>
<p>heck, its strech for me to be defered and not just rejected out right. im apping scea harvard next year i think. i may hold off on apps because i might be getting some cool ec awards in the time between ea and rd.</p>
<p>What was the point of that? We all know that the majority of people will get deferred. I won't be surprised if they defer me not because I'm not confident in myself but because of sheer statistics.</p>
<p>"wow thank you so much Joe, your little reality check is so useful and helpful i really cant begin to express how it has affected me"</p>
<p>at least if i get deferred/rejected, i only lost $70 bux. For you, my friend, just remember what i've said.</p>
<p>ouch. reality bites.</p>
<p>i do think, though, based on reading through a lot of CC results from past years, that the %'s of CCers who get in is higher than the ntnl average.</p>
<p>what was the point of this thread? to remind people they might not get in? to lower their self esteem and make them think they wont get in?</p>
<p>I'm doubting my chances more and more with each passing day.</p>
<p>don't we all...</p>
<p>you guys, please! be more optimistic. i am praying each and every single night for my one wish to come true. and you know what, i surely do have confidence in myself. each of us has something special that will catch the interest of the harvard admissions office. they are trying to build "THE CLASS" - thus, we should never lose hope, cuz we just never know what will happen. and if we do get deferred/rejected...life goes on. it is a simple fact of life.</p>
<p>"what was the point of this thread? to remind people they might not get in? to lower their self esteem and make them think they wont get in?"</p>
<p>Reality hurts. Besides, why does it matter if their self esteem is lowered, it ain't matter cause their apps are already in. And its pretty sad that someone would have their self esteem lowered cause some anonymous guy on an internet forum did a reality check.</p>
<p>then what was the point??
all youre doing is making people feel worse</p>
<p>"I am actually thankful to the OP " - i feel so sorry for you</p>
<p>Hmmm... It's quite obvious that the author of this thread is really negative. When he comes to this board and sees people with hope, he gets upset and wants everyone to feel just as crappy as he does.</p>
<p>^exactly
thats why this thread makes me so angry</p>