@dernhelm that’s a really nice way of putting it, thank you for that 
i really hope we get good news:(
@andyarrgz same here
Looks like not many Stanford deferred gotten into other Ivy Leagues! I got wait listed at Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell. Tomorrow this time I will know if I will know if I will accept Berkley or Stanford. Berkley is #1 for computer science. So no worries. No matter what college we end up going I don’t think it matters a lot as long as we do well. So no matter what let’s be happy. Good luck to all of us.
good luck to everyone tomorrow! whatever happens, everything will be fine! <3
I got into Duke! But stanford is still my number 1 !
Around 600 of us are deferred. Around 100 of us should get in. Advanced congrats to them. For the rest 500 there is no doubt we have gotten into other good schools and will do just fine. I don’t see any of us will talk about this after 24 hours. I enjoyed coming to this place often in the last 15 weeks. Glad the wait will be over soon.
@DavidMiller if i dont get in, i definitely wont check this thread ever again because the acceptances will make me sad lol. good luck to you and me
Got into Columbia, Dartmouth, UPenn, Duke, and Rice. Hoping for Stanford, but if it doesn’t work out, then I’ll move on. Being deferred has been tough, haha.
holy COW! I can’t believe this is happening TOMORROW. just thinking about opening my portal makes my hands shake… keep taking deep breaths for peace of mind!!! sending love and good vibes to all y’all!
@DavidMiller how do you know that only 600 of us were deffered? Just curious, because everywhere I looked, there were no statistics about it!
Good luck to all of you for tomorrow Fingers crossed since Stanford has been my dream school ever since I knew about colleges. Either way, we should all be tremendously proud of ourselves as getting deferred from Stanford is no joke. They even said “Stanford’s philosophy is to defer only a small percentage of Restrictive Early Action applicants, and you are part of this exceptional group.” So, we are all extremely talented, and regardless of the decisions, we will end up doing great things at great places! Good luck to you all once again!
Also, since people are posting their other important acceptances: UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Vanderbilt
yeh @DavidMiller I tried to find the stats about deferred students, but I couldn’t find anything.
Apparently Stanford chose not to publish them
@TheOneAndOnlyT-Rex yeah, which is why I’m curious about where he got his stats, im hoping it is around 15% accepted but with the current trends of acceptance rates falling, I’m doubtful.
@mmish321 I think our chances will still be 15%+ despite falling acceptance rates overall. There’s evidence that the defer acceptance rate is even as high as 25%.
See my post #17 on page 2 of this thread and its link included therein. This is from my ds’s year - high school year 2014. Thus, it was close to 25% that year. Since that time, there has been MUCH less transparency even about the number of students applying/accepted/rejected/deferred in REA, let alone something like this (of course, this isn’t exactly out there for mainstream viewing). I doubt Stanford will release info broken down between offers made in REA and RD with applicable acceptance rates as Harvard did. It has not been their m.o. as of late.
My ds was one of those students who went from deferred to admitted that year. I know how tough it is. Hang in there!!
Stanford daily says 701 deferred for the class of 2020 and 562 for the class of 2019. So I guessed it as around 600 for the class of 2022. Based on the available admission stats we are reading here the deferred students does not seem to be getting admitted to the ivy’s. So after getting waitlisted @ 3 ivy’s and rejected @1, I have no expections at all. I will be happy @ some of the top state schools, if I get rejected by Stanford. Wednesday results clamped by expectations to NiL.
Also don’t fall for the 15 to 25 percent figures. No one knows that for sure and every year the acceptance rate is falling. For Harvard RA this week, it’s just 2.43 if I remember correctly. At last for me, no expectations mean no sadness.
@DavidMiller thats a good way of thinking about it! Apparently some guy who got deferred on reddit found out he got rejected from connections he has to the school, enough to get a phone call from the dean of admissions. Gosh, im nervous!
@DavidMiller - did you go back and read the link I posted in that other thread?
For Stanford’s Class of 2018, 593 students were deferred. Read that number as reported in the Stanford Daily here:
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/12/14/stanford-accepts-748-for-early-admission-to-class-of-2018/
In that senate report that is linked in my other linked post (link is within the link) you can see where Dean Shaw is quoted as saying 145 of those deferred in REA were admitted. 145/593 = 24.45%
My ds’s deferral letter indicated that usually 15% of deferred applicants are accepted in RD. For his year (four years ago), per the numbers above, that percentage shook out close to 25%. I wouldn’t hang my hat on 25% in today’s environment, but if this year’s deferral letters indicated that 15% are usually accepted from the deferred pool in RD, there is no reason to doubt that. Stanford is not trying to get you to “fall for” anything.
Stanford has historically deferred VERY few applicants unlike many of its peer schools. For whatever reason, they have chosen to stop reporting the level of detail they have in the past.
It’ll all be a moot point in three hours anyway. Always good to be braced for the worst, but I still like to hope for the best!
Best to all!
ETA: Here is the linked link. See page 17
https://m.box.com/shared_item/https%3A%2F%2Fstanford.app.box.com%2Fs%2Fy4abufqg66nte7uax6eq