<p>Light paddle,</p>
<p>Is your data from waitlists or deferred? I think there would be a big difference. Does anyone know the exact number of "deferred" this year and last year? I know they say that they accepted about 10% from the deferred students last year, but they also say they try to take the majority of the acceptees from the Regular pool in the RD decisions, so what does this mean for us (the deferred)?? Any thoughts??</p>
<p>Thanks guys!</p>
<p>Does anyone know the yield rate for those deferred then accepted?</p>
<p>echang,</p>
<p>Can you please explain yield rates? Thanks. I'm a bit confused about this #</p>
<p>Usually Stanford defers around 10% of EA applicants. Then your chances of acceptance in the regular round are the same as everyone else applying then- about 10%.</p>
<p>does that means we are RD stanford as if we have not applied it bfore?</p>
<p>wondering how deferral will affect the RD decision</p>
<p>Yes, if you were deferred at Stanford your application will now be reconsidered in the Regular round.</p>
<p>stanford is unusual in trying to give a 'final decision' to most early applicants, so they defer only a small percentage, unlike most schools, who defer the vast majority of their earlies. So if you are deferred, it means you have a genuine shot in RD - you made it through several filters, so your chances are probably better than 10%.
But all the same, DO focus your energies as well on your other schools, and get enthused about them, too. As someone said on another thread, you had one million options open to you yesterday, and now you have one million possibly less 1. That may sound like a platitude, but it's still true..</p>
<p>So...I got my letter yesterday in the email around 9-ish (I live in New England). Then I spent the whole night (and this morning) bawling my eyes out. Not really because I got deferred. But because so many people from my school got into schools such as Yale because they have their connections (i.e. three kids have parents who are deans of the professional schools, one of them has a dad who is a master of a house, etc.). And just because my parents are Asian immigrants and had to work their butts off to get to the US and thus did not go to college here puts me at the end, even though I work harder than any of those idiots who got in early! What gives?!</p>
<p>Sorry about my rant...I'm still a bit ****ed. Plus, I don't get to have a relaxing holiday break. I have to fill out applications...now I have fourteen schools to apply to, not four, like I was hoping.</p>
<p>Ahhhhh same thing! Well, kind of. I'm white, but I still don't have the "connections" that all of my friends do....and I got deferred from Stanford (and all of the other 10, really hardworking applicants got rejected); meanwhile, the two girls with connections got into Yale (and the salutatorian of my class got rejected from Yale). Now everyone's congratulating those girls about "how hard they worked" when we all know why they really got in....and all I can think about is how much harder I worked than they did, and how much more I've sacrificed to get the grades I have now. </p>
<p>...oh yeah those grades that still didn't help me into Stanford.</p>
<p>But, if anything, XCotter, at least that reflects poorly on Yale's admissions standards; thus far, the people that have gotten into Stanford seem to be really qualified which makes me happy for them and less angry about my own decision.</p>
<p>But we all feel your pain.</p>
<p>The yield rate is the % of admitted applicants who end up enrolling in the university. I was curious what the yield rate historically has been for deferred applicants because if this number is higher than that for the other RD applicants then they could possibly weigh this in their decisions. So, even though we designated Stanford as our 1st choice by applying early, our deferral gives us more time to objectively deliberate over our options.</p>
<p>I'm a deferred kid too, but all of us on this thread know that the deferred kids are actually the genius kids. Cmon, you know that WE are the ones who deserved to go to Stanford... actually, forget Stanford, we're all going to Princeton, yeah!!! ha ha... <em>cricket, cricket</em></p>
<p>does anyone know if the deferred applicants are "marked" in any way so when they are re-evaluated their is some kind of mark on the file to show they were deferred? curious? What are the chances of a deferred applicant? is it worse to be deferred in RD?</p>
<p>Our chances are about twice those of the rest now in the RD pool.<br>
Total ~25,000 applicants--4,500 early decisions; 750 or so accepted (therefore RD total applicants 25,000-750=24,250-3,500 (rejected)= 20,750--and they will accept another what 900? So the rest of RD have 5%; but since deferred traditionally have 10%-we have twice as much of a chance of getting in compared to the rest of the RD pool.</p>
<p>any internationals over here got deferred? I am a Malaysian. Any other Malaysians here? =(</p>
<p>yes sir.how could the total admission rate goes up to 10% when the real RD pool only has an admission rate of 5%?</p>
<p>there may be something wrong with the data, tho</p>
<p>according to the data of class2009:</p>
<p>admit2412, RD admit 1545 EA admitt 867 total applied 20194 </p>
<p>say there are 10%defer and 18% admission in EA,and the admittance rate of deferral 10% as mentioned in email:</p>
<p>EA applied total = 867/.18=4816
EA deferral=4816X.1=482
RD deferral admittance=482X.1=48
RD pool with no deferral admittance rate=(1545-48)/(20194-4816)=9.7%</p>
<p>conclusion:
the pure RD pool admittance rate and the deferred admittance rate are all around 10%, thus there are no huge difference between those deferred and those simply RD，the chance for deferred maybe slightly slightly slightly higher(around 0.3%) which is also not acurate enough because of the lack of data in my calculation..</p>
<p>Oh well I'm international but not Malaysian and im deferred with some of my friends...many ppl in China got deferred tho...</p>
<p>well, talking about higher chances here would not help a since bit but give false hopes of getting into Stanford, since not all from the deferred pool are going to be accepted anyway. All the best with the RD applications of other universities!</p>
<p>but its true dat some of those who got deferred could get in...it's just a second shot with the same chance of any RDer's,dont give up and best luck with all the application in RD。。</p>
<p>(as I said earlier) I'm sorry if I have caused any confusion for posting irrelevant numbers. I myself was confused at that time. Just in case, "Waitlisted" and "Deferred" are different.</p>
<p>I do hope everyone will get into a school that they want to.</p>
<p>You know what? I've come to terms with this. Because I have better things to do like sit around and mope. As for upping my chances at getting regular...I'll probably just send out the optional update form, ask my counselor for any other tips, and just sit back and let everything go its natural way. </p>
<p>Besides, I had a mini-epiphany and have (really) realized that the name of the school doesn't matter in the long run. All we really want is to have a nice job and a comfortable life, right? And all I really want from college is to get me away from the crazy and neurotic people at my school, and any college outside of Connecticut can do that for me. </p>
<p><em>sigh</em> Off to work on my supplement essay for Johns Hopkins...</p>