<p>Hello deferred students and former MIT students, current MIT students, MIT Adcoms, etc, etc. I recently framed a hypothesis for "why did we get deferred in MIT EA?" I think MIT admissions DECISIONS commitee which sits in December i.e. the final stage in EA admissions was not able to come up with a unanimous vote on that particular applicant, so that was the reason that he or she got deferred in that round.</p>
<p>Leave any comments if you advise any insights on that issue, or if you have any vague idea about it?</p>
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<p>I doubt they have a policy that it must be unanimous</p>
<p>umm i knew a 2300+/3.9+ GPA/Siemens regional finalist/Siemens semifinalist (diff year)/USAMO qualifier/USNCO qualifier last year from my school that got deferred </p>
<p>Then later on regular, he got into Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Yale, Stanford...pretty much every school</p>
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umm i knew a 2300+/3.9+ GPA/Siemens regional finalist/Siemens semifinalist (diff year)/USAMO qualifier/USNCO qualifier last year from my school that got deferred
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<p>^Was this stupidkid?</p>
<p>Some of you are overthinking the deferral thing. It's not a rejection, an implication of your inferiority as an applicant, a bad sign for Regular Action, or anything like that. It's simply, there's a cap on the number of people they can take EA, there are people that they particularly want to give an offer to early for some reason or another, they thought that your app was competitive, so they put you in the RA pool. And, especially with the EA cap, every year there are people whom they're pretty sure they will admit in the end, that get deferred EA.</p>
<p>I don't think it has to be unanimous to admit someone, though I could be remembering wrong. Not infrequently, there will be a particular admissions officer who takes a liking to some kid's application - the adcoms are all individuals, with subtle differences in preferences - and is an advocate for it in the committee. Which, of course, means that every year after the decisions are done, the admissions officers are a little sad because some of "their" kids didn't get in. By the same token, they tend to be particularly pleased about "their" admits, the admits for whom they were the chief advocate. I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens during EA, except with less of the vague melancholy, because the deferrals go back into the pool rather than having been rejected.</p>
<p>I attended a luncheon for prospective MIT students the other day, and there were three current MIT students there to talk to us about their experiences. All three of them were deferred early decision. </p>
<p>They said it is very difficult to get in early, but obviously, there is still a decent chance for deferrees to get in!</p>