<p>OreoShake, call admission on Monday. According to some earlier posts, it seems the defered need to reply if they want to be considered for regular decision. Tell them what you stated above, I guess they would confirm if you’re deferred or not, and give you further instruction.</p>
<p>Cross post with midwstmom.</p>
<p>SCU is my absolute DREAM SCHOOL.
I’ve done the tours, the appointments, the everything!</p>
<p>I got my letter on Monday, December 20th
“You have been wait listed. Please apply for regular decision”</p>
<p>Just so everyone knows for the future, they were making decisions up until around Wednesday or Thursday (I was in their admissions office and it was insane) and they sent out the letters on Friday, December 17th.</p>
<p>I’ve been trying to comment on the feed FOREVER, but the administration wouldn’t even let me view it unless I wasn’t logged in. I guess with the new year, it refreshed my account, or something!</p>
<p>Anyways, I applied for regular decision. I feel like i’ve been punched in the stomach, because Santa Clara University is my FIRSTFIRSTFIRST choice and I want to go there more than breathing. </p>
<p>Any helpful stats or words of encouragement in regards to the wait listed? ):</p>
<p>Does anyone know how SCU admits for regular decision? Do they do it the same way as EA where they’ll send out all letters on same day about two weeks before their cutoff for final decision? That would put it around mid-March. Or do they admit on a rolling basis between now and then?</p>
<p>@midwstmom On that letter that says if you were wait listed or if you were accepted it also says you will know by April 1st or something along those lines. I’m going to guess it’s a rolling basis though, because most schools don’t make decisions all at once. Try calling admissions and let us know!</p>
<p>Kimmy -I’m so sorry to hear that you were waitlisted at Santa Clara. We also think it is a very special school. I checked last year’s common data set, and found that 2,262 applicants were waitlisted, 855 accepted a place on the waiting list, and 228 were admitted. So there is hope!<br>
I’m not sure how to advise you, because my son hasn’t encountered this. I think if it were my son, and it was his very first choice, he would contact the admissions office and let them know that. Also, if they ask for any supplemental information (such as fall grades) make sure you provide it ASAP.
Good luck, I will be thinking good thoughts for you!</p>
<p>I got deferred also as did all the other 5 EA applicants from my school (some with worse apps then mine, some with better). </p>
<p>My app: </p>
<p>My GPA was a 3.5 (our school’s GPA system is not generous - MY UC GPA is 3.75. Also, school is top 3 in sciences in the nation and overall nationally recognized private school) and a 31 ACT and 32 if super scored. SAT IIs were 700 Math II, 670 Bio M, and 680 USH. I had a few clubs (including officer of one), a lot of tennis, 50 volunteering hours (at children’s hospital and library), a summer customer support job, and Russian language/culture classes. </p>
<p>I obviously haven’t read the recs and my essays were pretty good according my college counselor. </p>
<p>Any hooks: First one in my family to attend college in US and a mild diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy (my personal statement was about me overcoming this and learning from it).</p>
<p>Major: Biology/Biological Sciences</p>
<p>@sharks - wow, hard to believe you were deferred…good luck in the RD round - I think you’ll get in.
@kimmy - do everything you can to let the adcom know that SCU is still your #1 choice! Email them, send them evidence of things you have done since you first applied, work extra hard to get good grades - don’t give up! Good luck.</p>
<p>kimmy: are you actually waitlisted or deferred? If you’ve been asked to apply regular decision, then you’re still in the pool. I’m new to this but I thought waitlisted were those put on the list after all regular decision admissions made, and as the college learned who was actually enrolling, the school could start admitting from the waitlist. If you are deferred, the stats seem a little better. The SCU letter said, “In recent years, about one-third of students who elected to be deferred were eventually offered admission.” So those odds are better than the ~10% that actually get admitted from the waitlist. So keep your chin up and keep breathing!</p>
<p>There’s also a great post on CC under Admissions Hindsight and Lessons Learned. It’s a very inspirational after-the-fact story. I hope it all works out for you.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/admissions-hindsight-lessons-learned/1034191-life-goes-somehow-magically-becomes-amazing-read-applicants.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/admissions-hindsight-lessons-learned/1034191-life-goes-somehow-magically-becomes-amazing-read-applicants.html</a></p>
<p>westcoastlatte: thanks for the waitlist stats. We may want to know them later in the process. :)</p>
<p>thanks guys!</p>
<p>I actually got deferred. I keep reading about wait listed people and typed the wrong thing, oops!</p>
<p>I have a 3.8 (W) and 3.6 (UW) GPA. (Last Trimester I received a 4.55) so i’m not a slacker or anything! I have a position in a company I’ve held for the last three years and I started my own business when I was 10, which I am still running today.</p>
<p>I had a meeting with a “high up” person at SCU and he was absolutely exceptional! He actually left a voicemail on the dean of admissions and financial aid’s mailbox saying that I was amazing and SCU needed me! It was a great feeling to hear those words, but I guess they just don’t feel the same way as he did. ): I also met with AJ, the counselor for Alameda County and he basically told me my test scores just aren’t high enough to pursue business. ( nice, huh? ): )</p>
<p>So I have done some stuff to get their attention to me. Did anyone, or anyone’s child, do something that “set them a part from the crowd” and it worked? Please let me know! (:</p>
<p>oh also @sharks, you definitely have a great chance of getting in to SCU next round!</p>
<p>no one else from my school really applied to good schools like SCU. I mean, I have a 3.8 and I’m in the top 20% which tells you something, haha.</p>
<p>anyways, good luck and let me know if you get in! (:</p>
<p>Thanks for the optimism guys, and live like 10 minutes away from SCU, so I visited the campus - I liked it quite a bit. :)</p>
<p>Also, kimmy - I think you have a good chance…your GPA is pretty darn good :D</p>