SCEA/EA - chances for deferred or rejected??

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<p>Parents: There are two schools of thoughts on this topic. One group is telling me that the big name colleges will defer most of the eligible/good applicants who they can not accept in SCEA/EA. Unless the candidate is really below mark, the colleges defer them to RD.</p>

<p>The other group is telling me that usually most big name colleges will accept one or two, defer only a few and reject the rest (which happens to be the most of the population).
Our school district is a good one sending 12-13 kids to Ivies every year. Now that I think, lot of kids got deferred last year from SCEA/EA. But is this norm?</p>

<p>I just want to know. My s wants to apply SCEA. Want to get educated on what to expect. Can any one comment?</p>

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<p>I'm not a parent, but I've seen what happened to the class of 2007, so maybe I can shed some light into this.</p>

<p>It depends from school to school.</p>

<p>For example, MIT will defer most applicants who are qualified and only reject those who seriously don't belong. Stanford, on the other hand, only defer those who they think have a shot in the RD round.</p>

<p>Do a bit of research into the SCEA school your son is applying to and see what's the norm.</p>

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<p>Thanks robot. I hope you are right so the SCEA doest go to complete waste. But this year, the SCEA colleges may ste a new precendence. who knows?</p>