Hi! So in the past month I received notice from two of my top schools, Tulane and Northeastern, that I was deferred. Frankly, I didn’t see this coming as my stats and school’s Naviance graphs made me feel very aligned with them as far as numbers, and I find my extracurriculars to be decent.
White female from California
GPA UW 3.7
W 4
ACT (took once) 34
7 AP classes through high school
Good ECs (teen court thru a juvenile delinquent diversion program in city hall, journalism outside school and went to American Library Association and Comic Con with press pass, Interact club, Girl Scouts, allstar cheerleader and co-captain of high school squad senior year, shadowed physicians in the Emergency Room, etc.)
Honestly, although I wasn’t rejected, I was hoping to having acceptances early in the process because now I feel very defeated and as if something is wrong with my application that is holding me back. Either way, the deferrals made me wonder if I’m still in a position to expect acceptances from these schools. I know Tulane is big on demonstrated interest and I had my counselor email them about my interest, as did I in a particularly rousing emailed essay.
With these schools both being private, the issue of scholarship is still so prominent. I applied early to have this chance, so I worry that now the scholarships might not be a consideration before. I won’t receive any need based aid but can’t pay the hefty 70k a year.
Basically, I’m asking if the chance to be accepted (and get a scholarship ideally!) still exists. I thank you all for any insight and apologize for my moping - in the end, deferrals and denials will be a part of the process, and we’ll all end up where we need too! 