<p>I was deferred, what is the best Plan Of Action now to have the best chances in April?</p>
<p>I wonder if they'll let me replace my essay from before with a better one. Or if I can send another recommendation. Or anything!</p>
<p>(sigh) I knew I was going to be deferred, but it would have been amazing not to. My heart has been stomped on.</p>
<p>i guess i had never experienced what "my heart sank" was. after i read my deferral i felt 1000000 times heavier...=/</p>
<p>seriously in the end just remember harvard is just another school. As long as one tried his or her best, no one's pride should be shot down by a deferral or rejection.</p>
<p>Well, just goes to show you what good hopes and dreams are.</p>
<p>Amazing, realizing that everything I've done in high school is now worthless.</p>
<p>I think the worse part will be telling all my friends, relatives, etc, how I let them down.</p>
<p>very nice use of sarcasm in your post hunter1985, I almost was convined that you truly feel that intensely about your admissions decision for Harvard</p>
<p>Do you really think I'm being sarcastic? You have something you've desired since you were in middle school, and have intensely worked for for many years destroyed, and then tell me how you feel.</p>
<p>i know exactly how you feel, hunter. -.-</p>
<p>I am dissapointed that I was deffered, but if you rest your entire existence on application to Harvard, then you live quite the pitiful life. There are more things to life than being admitted to a school. If you get in later, then AWESOME, but if not, then it was not meant to be. To quote scripture, "Worry about nothing, instead pray about everything."</p>
<p>I think many people feel the way that hunter does. Since i started high school, I have worked my ass off because society, my parents, my counselours all told me that working hard and getting good grades will get me into where i wanted to go (harvard). I have spent countless nights up till 4 in the morning working on my paper or my project. I did everything socitty told me I should do, now where is my rewarded. I have done everything for naught.</p>
<p>Not getting into Harvard constitutes failure? I don't know what people have told you all of your lives, but getting rejected from the HARDEST school to get into in the country does not constitute failure. Forget that, y'all didn't even get rejected, just deferred. Work hard to get accepted later, but if it doesn't happen, it simply wasn't meant to. Leave it to God. Apply to other schools, get married, have kids, move on... I assure you that your life is not ruined because you didn't get into Harvard.</p>
<p>the thing that ticks me off is why did i have to be deferred? why not rejected? I'd much rather be given an honest answer than a stupid "deferral." whats the point of harvard rejecting 185 or so and deferring 3000+?! isnt that just going to make their process even harder in May?</p>
<p>Dream Deferred</p>
<p>What happens to a dream deferred?</p>
<p>Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?</p>
<p>Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.</p>
<p>Or does it explode?</p>
<p>-Langston Hughes (1902-1967)</p>
<p>I definitely connect with this poem right now. I haven't decided which metaphor applies to me right now though. (sniffs self for smells of rot. thankfully none yet)</p>
<p>you think if i call i'll get an explanation?</p>
<p>I am glad to be deferred. I will be viewed with the other South Carolinians as a whole and hopefully stand out.</p>
<p>yeah..but you'll also be viewed with the other 3000 deferred people...</p>
<p>Dude. We've all just applied to the HARDEST school into the country and got deferred - which means we still got a shot. Give yourself a pat on the back or something!</p>
<p>I agree. Harvard is not life. Do your best, thats all you can do.</p>
<p>guys, what is the rate of acceptance for ED deferrals into RD in April ?</p>