Well we’ve all been deferred and we’re all pretty down about it. I really never expected to get in due to the single digit acceptance % but one can always hope. Anyways we can use this discussion to talk about being deferred and how to pick ourselves up from this.
If it helps I had a friend that went from deferred to waitlisted to accepted. Quite the suspense all year, but he made it.
I was deferred and eventually got in. It isn’t the end of the world - and it still wouldn’t have been if I hadn’t gotten in. Send in a (short) email explaining that you really would like to go. Maybe include what you’ve been up to since you sent in your application.
Then go focus on all those other wonderful schools out there that aren’t UChicago. You’re going to go somewhere, and, chances are, you’ll like it. Don’t dwell too much on UChicago.
Good luck!
It seems as though Chicago didn’t accept many early applicants this year. Does anyone know the acceptance rate? I’m not sure if I want to go onto EDII or not… still deciding.
So this is totally off the wall but my daughter gets a email tonight from the University of Chicago stating that a decision has been made on her application …well the interesting part is she started the application process on the common application but never finished it- she submitted the initially common application but she never submitted the “writing supplement” part of the common application, transcript from her high school, ACT scores or recomendations. (I honestly don’t think she knew what she was doing when she first set up her common application account - she is now much more familiar with the process- I believe initially she was thinking of applying to 20 schools until I told her I could not afford to send her ACT scores to 20 separate schools - let alone pay the application fees and told her she needed to start narrowing down her choices)
Anyway- she never finished the application yet she was deferred! If anyone deserved a rejection it was her
@OhioMom6, that is really weird. But it would not have been a rejection either because she didn’t even submit her completed application, right? Maybe it is some type of automatic response from their system.
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I was deferred- I wonder what was the percentage of people who got deferred to rejected to accepted. I’ll send the email reiterating my interest, but I’m going to treat this an rejection considering the incredible low rates of people who were deferred that got accepted. Mostly I feel pretty depressed about the whole affair; I was rejected for the state school honors program last week. I’ll probably end up attending that state school’s business program. Everyone on cc and offline too tells me that I’ll end up liking wherever I end up and that I’ll get over it, and on a logical level, I get that there’s no use crying over dead dreams, but on a purely emotional level, I can’t see the light at the end.
Does anyone know why ED1 deferred applicants can’t reapply to ED2?
How many of deferrals consider reappyling ED II to UChicago? And, where are you all applying RD? UChicago is always a high reach for everyone, but we should stay positive! That page of the story is over; continue on reading, there is a personalized ending for all of us. Don’t think that I am emotionally stable atm; any little detail reminds me of UChicago, and I get tears right away…
I don’t think I will be applying EDII.
These are the RD apps that I will be submitting:
Amherst
Bowdoin
Reed
Williams
Swarthmore
Cornell
Messiah (safety)
Anybody have any suggestions for some easier to get in schools, that fit the vibe of these ^ schools? Suddenly my self-esteem is diminished after today’s deferral.
@fungi99 are you an international applicant?
@GoksuKyc yeah
@fungi99 What are your intended major?
@ccyen328 Mathematics
To every single one of you:
just remember, the reason you were deferred is the same for almost all of you. There are way, way WAY too many excellent applicants out there, you ARE one of them, but hard decisions had to be made anyway because UChicago can only fit in a small percentage of the deserving applicants.
You are a terrific student and you are going to go somewhere great. Maybe it will be UChicago in the spring. But don’t read too much into this. Don’t lose faith in yourself just because this particular coin flip came up tails for you.
For LACs, look at Carleton, Haverford, Wesleyan, Vassar, and Grinnell. For national universities, add WashUSTL, Carnegie Mellon and Tufts. If you are a woman, look at some of the 7 sisters too. Some are quite strong in math.
And definitely throw in your EDII application to Chicago. Why the heck not?
@ThankYouforHelp I am applying to Carleton, Grinnell and WashU. Thanks for the recommendations! And no, I am not a woman so that won’t be an option. Yeah, I emailed my regional admissions officer about the ED2 thing
So, from what I understand about this year, most Early Action applicants were deferred, and most Early Decision applicants were accepted. There are, of course, exceptions. However, this is apparently UChicago’s first year with Early Decision, so last year’s statistics for deferred applicants came from the Early Action pool only and can’t be assumed to hold steady this year. They might, but in all likelihood, the students who applied Early Action were deferred because UChicago wasn’t sure if many of us were strong candidates to attend if we were accepted. Our applications might not have shown as much desire as some other candidates, especially Early Decision candidates. Those who applied Early Decision showed an extremely strong, and binding, desire to attend. UChicago knew that these students wouldn’t waffle out on them. So… those of us who are deferred get a chance to attend UChicago in Regular Decision, compared with other students who may not show as much interest.
This is all just speculation, but the idea kind of makes sense, so… last year, the students who were deferred were deferred from Early Action, a highly competitive pool of the people who absolutely wanted to attend, and their applications were likely vague regarding the intensity of desire to attend, thus a deferral. Then, in Regular Decision, the applications were reexamined. This would result in a very small percentage of the people getting deferred making it into UChicago because their applications likely were already regarded as having shown less interest than what the college was looking for, seeing as the applications were deferred from a pool of applicants who showed strong desires to attend.
However, this year, the Early Action pool is kind of a random variable. There isn’t a sure-fire way to determine how badly the candidates want to attend. They might have picked Early Action because UChicago is a second- or third-choice school, but they may have chosen Early Action because of financial reasons (even with UChicago as an absolute first-choice shool), and there isn’t any way to determine that just looking at applications. So… they deferred most of the Early Action kids. This allows UChicago admissions staff to compare the applications of those of us who really want to go with the applications of those who may not have as strong a desire to attend. This will likely result in many more deferred students making it in this year, as compared to last year. The Regular Decision pool contains hundreds of kids with intense desires to attend, and many are accepted, but there are thousands of students who may not show this strong desire and applied just to see if they could get in or for some similar reason. This means that a deferred application might stand out more in the Regular Decision pool this year, whereas last year it was likely extremely difficult for a deferred application to shine.
Seems highly unlikely that MOST (> 50%) ED applicants were accepted.