<p>And you haven't checked why?</p>
<p>deference is hard to overcome, good luck though. dont count on it. I was really really negative and so when i got in i had a heart attack, and if i hadnt, i woudlnt have been surprised</p>
<p>cuz i just got home, jpps, and i'm 95% sure i'll be rejected, 4% chance of deferral, so i want to delay that fate.</p>
<p>i'm trying to get psyched up by thinking about the best aspects of cornell, manhattan, and columbia, wisc, and pitt.</p>
<p>dammit, unlucky. deferred. oh, well. life goes on.</p>
<p>I got accepted. I'm too shock to say anything else. i read the letter at least 10 times. I thought I was gonna get rejected because when the screen loaded up, there was no big congratulations at the top like other people have said.</p>
<p>26e, I hope you get in. I'm praying for you.</p>
<p>EDIT: I typed my post too late, but it still stands. You still have a chance, michael.</p>
<p>PS I checked my decision 5 hours after it was posted. I had access to the internet all that time at school, but I wanted to wait until I get home to check it with my mom by my side.</p>
<p>Wow. I definitely don't have that sort of self-control (please, no sexual innuendo). You deserve to get in just based on that Zen-like tantric patience. Oh yeah, and your amazing enthusiasm and stats ;).</p>
<p>Edit: ****, too bad you were deferred. All I can say is that like krabble, you definitely deserve to get in. You've really shown your love for Penn, and hopefully the adcom will come around in RD.</p>
<p>well, i'm breaking out my, "Deferral Reversal Spray".</p>
<p>yeah, CC is a little awkward now, but I'm man enough.</p>
<p>i'm gonna start a club, write like 5 more essays (no space limits now), get some supplementary recs, all that good stuff.</p>
<p>i might have to drop econ, though, cuz he just showed me my grade today, FOR THE FIRST TIME, and i have a friggin B. I only have one grade that's not an A. It's a 70, but he didn't tell us what he wanted, how he wanted it, or how long he wanted it. Plus he "misplaced" 3 of my assignments. I'm likely to strangle him, i must say. My mom says, "he doesn't have tenure, you have the high ground." hmm...idk...</p>
<p>Al, SO GODDAMN HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!</p>
<p>26e, I may not fully understand your frustration right now, but I've been in this kind of situation before (not college admission but similar) and I kinda know how frustration would feel like. I'm rooting for you. I hope the adcoms can come to CC and read all the intelligent and funny posts that you'd posted. You're a pretty cool friend, and I wanna wish you the best of luck.... Continue to keep in touch.</p>
<p>PS I'm very paranoid about if my decision letter is real or not. I thought I had no chance with all the bad stuff that had happened after I'd submitted my application, so I was really in shock. I hope this is not a dream but real.</p>
<p>allan, you're brilliant. I'll give them the hyperlink! seriously....it could work</p>
<p>al, you're not dreaming</p>
<p>i'll be your roommate come september, so help me</p>
<p>Sorry to be so facetious, but you can produce some documents "proving" that Al is your long-lost brother, thus giving you legacy status.</p>
<p>But seriously, I'm sure that if you keep up your great stats, you can definitely get accepted RD.</p>
<p>great stats?! if i had any stats at all legit, i do feel i'd prob be accepted right now.</p>
<p>the worst part!?!?!</p>
<p>i only have 1 test date left thanks to reasons noted elswhere (<em>cough</em> hurricane, mun, soccer, near-death illness)</p>
<p>so....1420/2030, and 690, 680, 640.......which do i work on.....the latter is more embarrassing, the former more easily corrected (much more easily)</p>
<p>I don't know anything about deferrals. But off the top of my head, you should register to take the Jan. SAT. I don't think it's too late.</p>
<p>Of course, try and write another essay. i'll proofread it for content if you want. Get another supplemental rec from someone that knows you best. That's all I can think of at this point.</p>
<p>ah, refer to my other thread. but yeah, I'm gonna harass the hell out of them. they're gonna know my name by april. the hope is, they'll cave by january!</p>
<p>all this will be done tastefully, of course</p>
<p>take the SAT II, your SAT is pretty good in just M + V, and plus, have your newspaper advisor write that you can actually write.</p>
<p>yeah...that's the thing, though.....if i study my a** off, i still cannot possibly do better than, 740, 730, 720, and that's very optimistic. plus it'll be my 3rd time taking the USH, and it's still possible i could go up only to, say, 720, 670, 700</p>
<p>In your opinion, do you think getting straight A's for the first semester (mid-year report) could be enough to push an applicant from the deferral pile into the accepted pile by RD time?</p>
<p>no. absolutely not. but it may help. depends on the previous grades and GPA</p>
<p>if you were already strong with about a 3.8, then grades weren't the reason you were deferred. I think Penn is looking for unique traits and not intelligent people...they could fill a class with the highest SAT scores but they want individual diversity</p>
<p>26e- You need to get in...you are the soul of this forum...if you leave, the Penn forum will die! I think that they are going to be so surprised by your passion about Penn (I mean how many kids spend so much time talking, thinking, dreaming about Penn than CCers here?!) that they'll be slapping themselves. You have mitigating circumstances coming out of the wazoo...I'm really hoping for you man!</p>
<p>Hey all, I haven't posted here in a while...Anyways, I am currently a freshman in the Wharton School and I was actually deferred ED last year when I applied. A deferral is not the end of the world. In fact, the deferred stand a better chance against most RD applicants b/c you have already conveyed to PENN how much you want to be there just by applying ED. Send a letter to the Admissions Office telling them how much you love Penn. My regional rep told me last year that the reason I didn't get in ED was b/c I didn't show enough passion for the university in my "Why Penn?" Essay...Good luck to you all</p>
<p>Christopherson-
Did you do anything else besides the letter to help you change your deferral into an acceptance?</p>