<p>Everyone says that deferered people still have a chance, but how many people have ACTUALLY been accepted after being deferred?</p>
<p>For Stanford, the acceptance rate is ~10% for deferees, which is the same as for the regular pool.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why people who got defered would still go to the school who defered, but later accepted them. Think about it, its game theory. Here is an example.</p>
<p>Girl X asks me out and I told her no because I think I can get better. So I sample the dating pool and after much time I see that I can’t get better, so I go back and ask out Girl X. Wouldn’t she feel betrayed or less worthy? </p>
<p>Don’t deferees feel an intial “you are not our type” reaction after being deferred? I would think that this initial rejection would turn them off to the school.</p>
<p>True, but what if girl x can’t get a better guy than you?</p>
<p>it’s not about girl X getting a better guy, it’s about girl X being your soulmate/dream school!</p>
<p>If you really want to go to the school, then you should not lose hope if you are deferred. Do not take it as an insult or rejection. If they had no interest in you, then they would have rejected you outright. My child was deferred from the U of Chicago EA and then admitted in regular decision. It was her first choice, she loves it and is doing great. So why wouldn’t she want to go there even if she was deferred on the first go round. If she had been waitlisted and accepted later, she would have still wanted to go there. Previous comment makes no sense. I wish you luck. However, don’t just sit back and do nothing. Let the school know why you are a good fit and get extra recommendations, etc. to school for regular decision review.</p>
<p>I think the girl/ school analogy is a bit off because of the people factor. In the girl situation, you know and she knows that she feels like she is “settling for less.” Where as, if deferred then accepted, no one at the school, once you are there, knows or cares that you were deferred. It doesn’t detrimentally effect your experience, unless you obsess over it or something.
If you want to go there, you want to go there. They aren’t trying to slight you by deferring you.
And yeah, brother was ED Harvard, got in regular. As newenglandparent says, definitely update them with anything that happens in your life: a new leadership position, award, EC.</p>
<p>Show a TON of interest in the school, and try again. Like someone else said- if they didn’t want you, they would have rejected you. Do your best for your midyear grades and then stalk the adcoms, haha. You definitely still have a chance if you keep putting effort into it.</p>
<p>My son was deferred at 2 schools, but not first tier or Ivy schools. He did nothing to show additionally to show interest, and made no attempt to contact admissions with new information. I guess he felt that if they did not want him, he was not going to beg. He ended up being accepted to both schools during the regular admissions round, and he was thrilled.</p>
<p>Move on. If you get into the school later great, but it would not be good to count on it. New love is fun so fall in love again!</p>
<p>Remember, there are many “polite” deferrals where they defer rather than reject because you’re a legacy, come from a HS they deal with a lot or beause a coach had encouraged you.</p>
<p>The first deferrals that get in are the ones whose family made a large donation on December 16th! Grandparents suddenly remember they want to give a building or new money parting with a hefty sum. Then an athlete needed by a coach who lost someone in the process. Then legacies who have people calling on their behalf. Then maybe an unconnected kid who raised their SAT score to 2400 or won a national award after ED.</p>
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<p>Deferral isn’t actually a slight. It’s “You’re a competitive applicant that we might decide we want, just not one of the ones that, for whatever reason, we grabbed right now.” Some schools have caps on the percentage of admits who can be EA, meaning that quite a lot of people that they really do want will probably be deferred.</p>
<p>At MIT, the admit rates for EA deferrals are about the same as for admits in general.</p>
<p>My son ended up with a very nice merit award at a school that initially deferred him.</p>
<p>what about at Yale this yr? what % do you think they might take from the deferred pool?</p>
<p>the girl/guy analogy really doesn’t apply to me. I wanted to know about how many people got accepted afterwards. I’m surprised to hear that NEmom’s son got a merit award after getting deferred. It’s pretty comforting to know there is still hope. Also, getting accepted after two deferrals sounds pretty awesome too!</p>
<p>From the little I know about the deferral process, it seems as though colleges are taking the only the very best of the ED applicants to accept these days. It’s kind of like saying “You’re probably a fit here, but you’re not convincing enough to just take outright like some of these better applicants over here.” You may (or may not have been) a “match” for your school, but got pushed aside by someone else with better qualifications. In other words, it’s not that you’re a “bad” applicant and should give up, it’s just that you’ve been given a second chance to add to your cause. You should do this in the ways mentioned above, by sending letters, talking to admissions, visiting, etc.</p>
<p>I subscribe to a web site that lists numbers of waitlisted for many schools and the eventual results.</p>
<p>OP, I looked up Brown based on some of your past posts. </p>
<p>1400 waitlisted
450 eventually were eventually accepted
89 of those actually enrolled</p>
<p>Maybe that analogy of the girl turning down the date is a accurate here!</p>
<p>J Mom, Yale stats are considerably worse. </p>
<p>1239 deferred
no figure for how many were eventually offered admission
8 from the dererral list eventually enrolled</p>
<p>FYI- These stats are from a web site that costs $40 per year to join. I’m not allowed to tell you the name (I’ve had it deleted from these boards before.) It rhymes with college growler.</p>
<p>i should definitely hope so or ill be ****ed!</p>
<p>toledo that’s very interesting…thats almost 33% acceptance rate maong those deferred.</p>
<p>Also, you meatn deferred right? not waitlisted.</p>
<p>Technically it said waiting list. Am I wrong in believing these are the same thing?</p>