<p>Does being deferred at one of your top schools cause you to start feeling better about the schools to which you have been accepted, while distancing yourself from the school that deferred you? Does the deferral create some animosity toward the school that deferred you? Do you have feelings like "This school actually wants me. This is where I now want to go (while shunning the school that deferred you)." </p>
<p>I'm just curious as to how others are reacting to the deferral.</p>
<p>For me personally, I got deferred from Ross at The University of Michigan. While I am pretty disappointed, it’s not that problematic for me because earlier that same day, I was accepted at The University of Chicago. 
I don’t feel much animosity or resentment, because UMich oos is like $50, 000 anyway.
Still hurts more than I thought it would though haha. oh well. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>I also was deferred at University of Michigan. It was also my top choice. I definately distance myself from the school with a deferrel, and now I’am even more nervous because 1. I don’t have a top choice anymore 2. University of Michigan was my only in-state school. The schools I have been accepted to I alreadly liked them from the start ( reason why I applied) but grow to like them more since so far likely its where I will be. Does deferrel create animosity? Not for me, since I’am not surprise of a deferrel but it only reminded me how out of touch I’am with the school and I definately discovered more of other schools this way and favor the school less to where its not a top choice. Now I even question if UMich is simply too close to home for me ( its about an hour away, maybe 30 mins going a little over the speed limit). Maybe being some distance from home would be a good experience.</p>
<p>We have a really good guidance counselor and he assured us that my daughter still had a chance of acceptance if her grades improved. She is much more optimistic than I am. I’m encouraging her to check out one more school, even though she does have two acceptances. My older son was in a similar position when he was applying to schools. Even though he brought up his GPA and scored higher on another ACT test, his first choice school was swamped with acceptances, so they could not offer him a spot. All was not in vain, as the higher GPA and score got him more money from his second choice school. Motto of my story…Don’t give up! And if I lived in Michigan, I’d check oiut Grand Valley State. Everything I hear about it is very posititve.</p>
<p>I got deferred from Bucknell and at first I was incredibly angry. But the more I thought about it, the more I realize that I do want to go there. It’s still my first choice school and I am working on getting recomendation letters outside of school and writing my own letter. I do have other schools, one that is right up there with Bucknell, but offered a spot and BU, I’ll take it.</p>