@callahanolivia your stats are really good! Hang in there! My thought is that it is because you applied to nursing program. Perhaps the pool is incomplete and they are waiting on decisions? Deferred is not rejected. It just means they are waiting on a decision until regular decision dates approach. Don’t let this discourage you as to the other schools you applied to because there seems to be no rhyme or reason as to the acceptance criteria across the board. My S was rejected at OSU - not even deferred and he has since gotten into 2 schools that were higher up on his list. It is always an option to reach out to your admissions counselor for a better explanation as to that school’s “deferred” action. Best of luck!
@callahanolivia i got deferred too! 4 kids in my school were accepted on the 10th and only one of 5 was accepted today. Everyone else was deferred. Just sucks honestly. You could write a letter of interest, emailed to admissions before Feb 15
Thank you!! Congrats to you as well 
One factor on the deferrals may be a huge increase in EA apps. It sounds like they received 12,000 EA apps this year, and in previous years it’s been around 6,200. It will be interesting to see if there is an overall increase in total apps as a result or if the EA pool just increased.
@eandesmom that’s really interesting! I heard the same thing with UNH - someone posted that they called admissions and was told they received over 11,000 EA apps. My S applied to almost all schools EA because we felt as though he HAD to in order to be competitive. What is intriguing is that the age population (college ready) is decreasing so the numbers should be going down in terms of applications but it appears more students (HS Grads) are going to college so the numbers are not really reflecting this decrease in population. My gut feeling is that total apps (EA and Reg decision) will end up being somewhere around the same total applied as last year for most colleges, in other words, more kids applying early action rather than reg decision. A few exceptions will be some of the publics that are becoming more popular these days such as UMaryland, UVM, UCONN, UDelaware, UNH and a few others - their app pool is becoming more competitive. It seems those particular schools are drawing more students and to note is that a popular trend seems to the OOS. I know my son for one is really focusing on out of state publics. These things seem to go in waves!
I have found (by asking people) that people are applying to more schools this year. So while the number of people maybe the same, the number of applications increases.
UVM posted the 12,000 number on their blog back on the 11/10 release date. While they don’t publish EA data in their common data set, they do report it and it does show up in the College Data admissions info. What I don’t know is what year college data pulls from but believe it is “relatively” recent.
@xaviermom2017 I think in general you are right, EA numbers are up but total numbers may not be. I will not be surprised though if UVM is up overall (due in no small part I suspect to the popularity of a former presidential candidate with this age group) and agree that may have made the pool more competitive. My S is focused OOS as well and did all apps EA for best chances at merit.
Accepted with presidential scholarship $17,000 per year
1420 SAT
6 hard APs and lots of honors
Lots of exrmtacurriculars- sports, clubs, intern at lab
did anyone make a group me?
Updating with merit $$
S Accepted
Applied EA 10/29
Accepted 12/14
OOS
Natural Resources:BS, Rubenstein Sch of Env & NR
Major: Environmental Sciences
$15K Presidential Scholarship
3.45 UW, 25C, 6 AP, 3 Honors, strong music, theater and environmental EC’s
Did any November admits hear about merit scholarships?
Just checked the portal and S received a Presidential Scholarship for $15,000/year.
^^Yes, it was on the portal. $15K Presidential.
@LuisaL yes, it was on my portal.
Just to correct an earlier post. There were around 12,000 EA applicants this year AND around 12,000 EA applicants last year. And around 14,000 EA applicants in each 2013 & 2014.
https://uvmadmissions.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2015/11/
https://uvmadmissions.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2016/11/
https://uvmadmissions.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2014/11/
It appears… not fact… just from observation… that much of the competitive majors (limited slots) have been deferred to regular admission notification… like Nursing & Athletic Training.
Accepted
Nursing
Presidential $17,000 a year
3.9 GPA
1430 SAT
Lots of strong leadership extracurriculars
I got the Presidential for $18k a year. 34 ACT and 4.57 weighted GPA.
@BarneyPelty thanks for clarifying that, very interesting it definitely appears that some of the data out there not on UVMs word press site is incorrect. Given that college data pulls from their reported data it should not be but it is.
Accepted to Grossman School of Business!
I also received the 17,000/year presidential scholarship
State: NJ
GPA: 4.7 Weighted
ACT: 30 sent in, 31 superscore
I posted a few days ago that I was deferred from uvm and my spirits were crushed because it was a safety for me, but I just got accepted into PSU nursing at UP and couldn’t be happier- anyone who got deferred keep your heads up