What happens if you get deferred?

Colleges & Universities A-Z Brown University
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<p>is the decision still binding?
do you usually get in?</p>

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<p>No, it’s not binding.
I’m really not sure about acceptance rates for deferred applicants. But, deferral does imply that you’re good enough for further consideration, so I guess you could take that as a positive indication…</p>

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<p>thanks…
god i hope i get accepted
i don’t want to wait another 5 months for college decisions</p>

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<p>Very few people receive an outright rejection in the first round. While deferral is obviously better than rejection, it is not really an indicator of much of anything either way.</p>

<p>It is not still binding, it just means that you get considered with the RD applicants in another round of review.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure approx. 25% get accepted, 25% rejected, and 50% deferred in ED.</p>

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<p>Nope, those numbers are wrong. About 6% get rejected. And in 25+ years of doing interviewing I’ve never seen data on the percent deferred who get accepted-- don’t think Brown releases that.</p>

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<p>hmm that’s interesting, well I was just basing those figures off what an admissions women said at an Exploring Education thing they had in my city.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure there are statistics online stating 21% accepted 37% deferred and 42% rejected.</p>

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<p>6% sounds really low. But I guess it would make sense…
Although 42% or 25% sound much more normal. I mean, if 21% get accepted, and 6% get rejected, that means 73% get deferred which sounds slightly weird.
But then again, in the CC results forums from past years, rejection didn’t seem to be thaat common…</p>

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<p>I’ve kept away from the CC results…that would just get me over-thinking everything :p</p>

<p>Sorry, the only thing I know is that ~20% get accepted.</p>

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<p>The number is completely accurate. There are very, very few rejections in the first round.</p>

<p>The 42% number is out of nowhere.</p>

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<p>Interesting. Thanks everyone.</p>

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<p>Hey, it looks like Washington University in St. Louis only Waitlisted people (RD people) last year; no rejections.</p>

<p>Colleges like to do this whole Deferred thing. If you, out of nowhere, cure cancer, a college can take you back this way, should you want to go back.</p>

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<p>Though a deferral is better than flat out rejection part of me would rather know for sure instead of being stuck in some sort of college admissions purgatory. Maybe that’s just me I’m just not very patient and the idea of waiting till April kills</p>