<p>There has been a lot of talk about how Stanford usually defers 10% of SCEA applicants, but also a lot of skepticism regarding this number. MIT and Yale have released the exact percentages deferred this year, but I haven't seen anything from Stanford. Quite a few people on here were thinking that more were deferred this year, but no one has posted anything official. </p>
<p>I was deferred, and I am wondering what that means for me as a college applicant. For example, if 16% are accepted and 10% deferred, that means that as a deferred SCEA applicant, I am at least in the top 26% of Stanford early applicants, which really is nothing to sneeze at, and at least gives me hope for other colleges, as well as for the regular decision round.</p>
<p>My friend told me that 10% of the deferred people get accepted. I think they defer >10% though. There are too many people who got deferred, so 10% is a little low.</p>
<p>In the past, I heard that they accepted ~20%, deferred ~30% and rejected ~50%. I don't remember where those numbers came from, but it seemed like they were considered "common knowledge". Since then they got a new director of admissions, so things might have changed, but 10% sounds unrealistically low...</p>
<p>Well Stanford has noted that they like to give a final judgment as soon as possible and are thus more likely to utilize either acceptance or rejection over deferral.</p>
<p>All I know is that Stanford doesn't do courtesy deferrals. Other colleges like Yale and MIT will defer you unless you are clearly unqualified, while Stanford seems to reject unless they have a serious interest, which is why you see people with crazy qualifications that you were sure would get in get straight iup rejected.</p>
<p>kyledavid: that's what I was thinking might have happened, people just skimmed the letter, saw "10%" and "deferred" and put the two together. So if 10% is not correct, what is? I take it no one knows of any official statement from Stanford. I've heard the 20-30-50 ratio before too, but the official SCEA admit rate is 16%, so I dunno.</p>
<p>I've always heard that too, that Stanford tries to give as final an answer as possible, but it just doesn't seem true. Almost everyone I know who applied was deferred (over 10!), and only 1 was rejected.</p>
<p>20-30-50 is a very likely ratio. It's approximate, but if you round up the 16% acceptance rate... it's 20%, so it makes sense after seeing so many deferrals. </p>
<p>In terms of courtesy deferrals, they do that only or mostly for legacies.</p>