<p>I am only one of those who were deferred. I urge all of us who were deferred to not give up hope: there is still a chance! Here's some advice from CC:</p>
<p>Deferred</a> Early Decision Applicant Asks for Advice - Ask The Dean</p>
<p>And if you have any more advice you'd like to give, please post it here. This is a support forum for the deferred.</p>
<p>Thank you!I’m reading it!</p>
<p>Thank you PurpleYuan, the article was helpful:) let’s all get in RD ok?</p>
<p>I’ve lost all hope and, quite frankly, some people on here didn’t deserve to be accepted and some didn’t deserve to be deferred/rejected. Just think of it as UChicago’s loss and just remember, they only deferred/rejected a bunch of papers, not you.</p>
<p>aww motion12345, don’t lose hope:( listen to some Muse maybe and have a snack. lol after some tears, I ate a large amount of pretzels. now my jaw hurts hah</p>
<p>I don’t know what the committee was thinking. I have no chance in the Regular Decision round. Just no chance at all, not with a 54% increase in early applications. I don’t even want to imagine what kind of boost the university will see this spring.</p>
<p>This is depressing because I feel as if I should try, though the disappointment will be even more immense when, after trying, I am not accepted.</p>
<p>I’ve practically given up as well.</p>
<p>This deferral is really just stringing the disappointment out another 4 months.</p>
<p>It is indeed.</p>
<p>And, after a 54% increase in applications, I think UChicago will end up being more hurt than helped. I will not be surprised if the yield from the EA round is smaller than they might expect, considering so, so many students applied and were accepted at other schools ED.</p>
<p>The financial aid package question will be key.</p>
<p>I’m so incredibly sad right now…I don’t think I have ever been this sad in my life. In fact, the horrible memory of opening that letter will never be removed from my sad little brain. BOTH of my friends made it in today…and I’m sure of it…they couldn’t stop gloating about it on their Facebooks… 
Sometimes, I wish I had no friends, no friends at all. Whatever…i should probably be congratulating them or something.</p>
<p>I’m sad too collage0fun one of my friends got in, and as happy as I am for him, I am also jealous of his acceptance.
my heart hurts!</p>
<p>Hey guys,
I know how much this sucks, as I was in your shoes this time last year. The thing that is absolutely key to remember is this: DO NOT GIVE UP. That was one of the biggest mistakes I made last year when I was deferred; I moved on and focused on my other RD schools. Sure, I sent in an additional letter of interest, but I never wholeheartedly pursued it. Giving up is the worst thing you could do at this point. If this is the school you are certain you belong at, tell the adcom that. Come the RD round, I was waitlisted, which believe me, sucks more than being deferred. Only after being waitlisted did I really begin to contact admissions and really push to get myself in- the realization that it was now or never caused me to contact admissions every opportunity I got, without worrying whether or not I was annoying them. If you have updates, send them in. If you got new scores, send them in. They’re about to get a massive amount of more applications; don’t let yourself slip through the cracks. My biggest regret is that I essentially gave up after being deferred, so don’t do it. I was one of those unfortunate souls who applied in November and didn’t get in until June, but once you’re in, it doesn’t matter whether your friend got in EA and you were on the waitlist. I’m here and I’m thriving. So keep your chin up, and make sure the admissions department knows just how much you want to go here. :)</p>
<p>Thank you ,Mendi ,for your tips and encouragement!I really should get my hands on “bugging” the ao’s to sell myself even better than in EA…hopefully I got a higher CR score in December.><</p>
<p>But somehow…I still feel down,although I’d been kept telling myself that a deferral is in the picture…awww</p>
<p>thanks for the hope Mendi
same here GatitaZ, I keep trying to reason with myself that at least I wasn’t rejected but I still feel pretty horrible about everything:(
we’ll just have to wait til April,
hang in there everyone!</p>
<p>katydone: yeah><we need a bit patience…omg…Hang in there!!!Hope we all get in in RD!!!</p>
<p>we’ll all come out stronger people by this experience. Don’t slip (I’m just saying this but I feel like a pile of doodoo)</p>
<p>deferred =/= rejected!!!</p>
<p>I KNOW many of us here are hurt and disappointed, but we CAN’T GIVE UP. Motion, I know you love this school, and even if the admissions office has messed up they really have no say on what goes on IN THE COLLEGE once you get in! The fact that we got deferred means that our stats are pretty good but they just don’t want to accept everybody at once. </p>
<p>YES WE CAN (lol)</p>
<p>here’s more help</p>
<p>Many students who applied to college Early Decision or Early Action are finding that they’ve been neither accepted nor rejected, but deferred. If you find yourself in this limbo, here are some guidelines for how to proceed.</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Don’t Panic
Most likely, if you’ve been deferred your credentials are in the ballpark for getting accepted. If they weren’t, you’d be rejected. However, your application wasn’t so far above average that the college wanted to give up a spot in the entering class until they could compare you to the full applicant pool. The percentages vary from college to college, but many students do get accepted after being deferred (I was one such applicant).</p></li>
<li><p>Find Out Why You Were Deferred
Unless the college asks you not to do so, give the admissions office a call and try to find out why you were deferred. Be polite and positive when making this call. Try to convey your enthusiasm for the college, and see if there were particular weaknesses in your application that you might be able to address.</p></li>
<li><p>Update Your Information
Chances are the college will ask for your midyear grades. If you were deferred because of a marginal GPA, the college will want to see that your grades are on an upward trend. Also, think about other information that might be worth sending:</p></li>
</ol>
<pre><code>* New and improved SAT or ACT scores
<ol>
<li><p>Send a New Letter of Recommendation
Is there someone who knows you well who can really promote you effectively? If so, an additional letter of recommendation might be a good idea (but make sure the college allows extra letters). Ideally, this letter should talk about the specific personal qualities that make you an ideal match for the particular college that has deferred you. A generic letter won’t be nearly as effective as a letter that explains why you are a good match for your first-choice college.</p></li>
<li><p>Send Supplemental Materials
Many applications, including the Common Application, provide the opportunity for sending in supplemental materials. You don’t want to overwhelm the admissions office, but you should feel free to send in writing or other materials that will show the full breadth of what you can contribute to the campus community.</p></li>
<li><p>Be Polite
As you try to get out of deferral limbo, you’re likely to correspond with the admissions office several times. Try to keep your frustration, disappointment and anger in check. Be polite. Be positive. Admissions officers are remarkably busy this time of year, and their time is limited. Thank them for any time they give you. Also, make sure your correspondence doesn’t become pesky or harassing.</p></li>
<li><p>Have a Back-Up
While many deferred students do get accepted during regular admissions, many do not. You should do all you can to get into your top choice school, but you should also be realistic. Make sure you have applied to a range of reach, match and safety colleges so that you will have other options should you get a rejection letter from your first choice.
Remember that the advice above is general and that every college and university has its own policies when it comes to sending in additional documents.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I found this in the Rice deferred board: (I wasn’t deferred from Rice - I didn’t even apply, but they have a deferral support board there too haha)</p>
<p>"I know I’ve kind of been playing the high-and-mighty Rice senior role over the past few weeks, making fun of y’all for being so stressed about your Rice decisions and the exact minute they’ll be released, etc. But I was in the same boat as all of you four years ago, and I just wanted to provide my story for support.</p>
<p>Way back when I applied, Rice still had something called Interim Decision. It worked like Early Action, but its deadline was a month later. I think the idea was that if Rice could snag a few people a month or two before decisions for other schools came out, those people would start thinking of Rice as “their” school before they got any other decisions. But yield rates were about the same for ID as they were for RD, so ID was dropped a few years ago. But I digress.</p>
<p>Anyway, I had applied Interim Decision to Rice. I would have applied early, but Yale was still really appealing to me, and I wasn’t ready to commit to one school, even if it was my first choice. Who knew what I would think by May? Anyway, decisions came back in February, and I was deferred. Decisions came again in April, and I was waitlisted.</p>
<p>Now, you’re probably thinking, “Well, at least you weren’t rejected.” True, but three of the other six schools I had applied to had also waitlisted me (USC, Chicago, and WashU). Getting waitlisted by four schools sucks. It’s even worse than being outright rejected, because there’s no sense of finality. You’re wondering what’s the one thing you could have done to make yourself an appealing enough candidate to get accepted by even one of those schools. Everything you’ve done throughout your high school career is called into question — What if my GPA had been a point higher? What if I were 30 seconds faster in Cross Country? What if I had gotten two gold medals at Science Olympiad instead of two silvers? What if I had worked on that English essay instead of staying at the newspaper office all weekend? You find yourself wanting to go back and alter the past ever so slightly, but it’s hopeless. There is nothing you can do.</p>
<p>Yale had rejected me, and I had been accepted to Case Western Reserve University with a pretty decent scholarship and the University of Georgia honors program with a full (HOPE) scholarship.</p>
<p>I was pretty sure I was going to matriculate at Case, but then I visited for an accepted students weekend. It was absolutely miserable. The students there were miserable, and it was clear that they were a university that had carved a niche for themselves as a place for Ivy rejects. I was completely distraught — I had applied to Georgia just because it was the state school, and it would be free, and it seemed like the right thing to do. I visited Georgia the next weekend, and —*you know what? I could see myself there. Athens was a pretty neat town, the campus was gorgeous, and the school paper was one of the best in the country (at the time I wanted to be a journalist).</p>
<p>Now (and this is the part I really don’t want you to latch onto, but I know you will because you’re desperate to find any way that can get you into Rice), after visiting Case, I sent a letter to Rice telling them everything I had done during that semester — acting in a play, getting a job, etc. — and that if I were accepted, I would attend Rice. I mailed the letter, and I decided to forget about Rice. I bought a UGA t-shirt to wear on college shirt day, and I sent in my enrollment deposit. I was perfectly content.</p>
<p>The next day, I got a call from Amy Atcheson, my regional admissions officer, offering me a spot at Rice. I (obviously) accepted, but it was comforting to know that if I hadn’t received that phone call, I would have been perfectly fine at UGA.</p>
<p>Basically, what I want you to take away from this is that there is more than one good school for you out there, and the best thing you can do right now is enjoy your senior year and relish in the fact that you already have your app submitted to your top-choice school."</p>
<p>One should respond do a deferral not with hostility for those who received a more desirable result, but excitement for an extra chance to prove yourself to admission. College admissions is not fair - everyone knows that. But it’s as pretty fair as it can get.</p>
<p>The advice PurpleYuan offers is excellent.</p>
<p>Here is what I did after being deferred:</p>
<p>I called my counselor, telling her that although the decision was not what I was hoping for, I was grateful happy to have another change to prove myself to the committee. I also told her that, if accepted, I would attend. Letting them know UChicago is your first choice is important. She even told me that she wrote that information on my application so she and the committee would be reminded of it as they reviewed my app.</p>
<p>I sent in a letter of interest. This included updates on activities (I had some some stuff, etc etc) and a short paragraph on why I still wanted to attend. </p>
<p>I had failed to write the optional essay for EA (I just didn’t have enough time!), so I sent them in an essay about art that I had written.</p>
<p>I send them each flowers and box of chocolate with $50 bills inside each truffle. </p>
<p>And it worked!</p>
<p>I know getting deferred sucks, but it’s not the end of the world. From now on, just imagine yourself being happy at your last choice school. It really helps when you’re getting decisions back and everything is a deny. And remember, just because it’s your last choice, doesn’t mean it’s the WORST choice (after all, you didn’t apply to Bob Jones or Liberty… did you?).</p>
<p>How many ppl do they usually accept out of the ea pool??</p>