The Deferred Applicants' Thread for Stanford SCEA 2012

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<p>Hello defered applicants... I'm making this thread because I think we should be able to share our opinions and get some advice from others, in order to expand our chances of getting in.</p>

<p>Reference 1. Optional Update Form (Send by March 1st)
<a href="http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/pdf/08OptionalUpdateFormF9_FINAL.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.stanford.edu/dept/uga/pdf/08OptionalUpdateFormF9_FINAL.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Reference 2. Applicants accepted from waitlist (data from "common data set")
2007 -> 0
2006 -> 15
2005 -> 13 (beginning of SCEA?)
2004 -> 56 (end of ED?)
2003 -> 95</p>

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<p>Lol, I made a thread too, but your's has much more info... So I'm abandoning it... hahaha... I feel optimistic about April, because I have awards to add! Yay! And I figured that even if I don't get in, there will be other schools that love me. How are you guys doing right now?</p>

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<p>Deferred, too.</p>

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<p>Lol, I noticed right after I made this thread. </p>

<p>I'm optimistic without any basis of saying so... I don't have so many new things to write (which I can think of right now).</p>

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<p>Oh, and did anyone else get two emails from Stanford? One entitled "Your Stanford Admission Decision" and the other one "Your Admission Decision from Standard"? It was the exact same email, except it was sent twice under two different names...</p>

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<p>defered...</p>

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<p>Just got one email.</p>

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<p>deferred...</p>

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<p>I got a second email. It felt like they were rubbing it in.</p>

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<p>I thought they deferred almost nobody? What happened?</p>

<p>For some reason, I'm not entirely depressed, but I really just wanted some kind of final decision.</p>

<p>It's like refusing to answer a yes or no question.</p>

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<p>Yeah... It is kinda the most "annoying" of the decisions, even though it's better (obviously) than being rejected.</p>

<p>Maybe they defer us because they love us. lol.</p>

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<p>This is going to be a long 3-month wait... </p>

<p>We have no idea why we were deferred, but we have to somehow make ourselves stand out. Get a Nobel Peace Prize?</p>

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<p>does Stanford take a good amount of people off of the deferred list? I heard that they do, but "good" can be a relative term when describing these types of colleges.</p>

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<p>They said around 10% of the people who were deferred got in RD last year.</p>

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<p>^ Which, by the way, contradicts with the numbers on the common data set
(cf. my first post at the top)</p>

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<p>deferred here too. Guys, there is NOTHING shameful about being deferred. Only 10% was deferred, with 75% rejected!!!</p>

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<p>I got deferred too...damnit why've they deferred so many people....I just want a final decision! akk...</p>

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<p>light_paddle, waitlist is different from a deferral. Those wouldn't pertain to us.</p>

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<p>Yea, the waitlist numbers don't have anything to do with the admittance rate for deferrals...you guys weren't waitlisted.</p>

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<p>Ah... now I get the difference.
I'm embarrassed.</p>

<p>I see, now I can believe the fact that 10% of defered people get in.</p>