<p>seriously though, i have never heard of a school who deferred or waitlisted ea or ed candidates to rd and then count them as ea or ed students when they subsequently get admitted. that's just counterintuitive to what ea or ed is supposed to do. there were some postings in other threads that said that ea and rd stats for uchi were about the same. now all of a sudden uchi's true rd rate is in the low 30's? i don't think so. Since ea is not binding, there really shouldn't be any difference in admit rates for ea and rd. anyone who wants to apply to uchi can just apply ea and obtain whatever benefits it affords and still be able to reject uchi if something better comes along. i think that it is because of this type of thinking that harvard went scea instead of straight ea. they felt used.</p>