<p>Anyone? Thanks.</p>
<p>It can vary somewhat from year to year, but is ordinarily similar to the rate for RD applicants in the same pool.</p>
<p>Thanks Byerly hall :)</p>
<p>This may be true but it is important to note that this rate is significantly lower than the overall acceptance rate of approximately 10%. Deferred SCEA applicants are accepted at a rate closer to 4%.</p>
<p>ie, close to the RD acceptance rate. The overall rate includes applicants from the original SCA pool, who are admitted at a rate exceeding 20%.</p>
<p>From what I read, the overall acceptance rate for RD applicants is 8%. However, this includes some special case applicants who are presumbly precluded from the deferred pool.</p>
<p>As a practical matter, the admit rate is lower from the RD pool, since it includes a large number of SCEA deferrees in addition to the "regular" RD applicants.</p>
<p>Perhaps I should clarify the figure I have found. The acceptance rate of applicants, excluding early action applicants, is 8%.</p>
<p>Again, the pool from which "regular" RD applicants are admitted also includes more than than 3,000 SCEA deferrees. For example, for the Class of 2009, the "regular" pool consisted of 18,501 RD applicants and 3,187 deferrees. Of this 21,688 total, 1,210 were admitted, for a "true" admit rate from the RD pool of a little over 5.5%.</p>
<p>For the most recent complete admissions year, what percentage of EA applicants were ultimately admitted? What percentage of ED applicants gained eventual admission?</p>
<p>Harvard does not keep track of how many EA deferees are ultimately admitted. Simple questions, but questions that cannot be answered.</p>
<p>Byerly, you are stating exactly what I am stating, except you are not emphasizing the point that I'm pointing out. The overall regular admission rate, as you said, was 5.5% for that year. However, this admission rate is the weighted average of the admisson rate of two groups, those who applied regular action and those who applied early action but were deferred. The figures I've seen seem to indicate these two groups are not admitted at the same rates. However those figures can't be right for the 5.5% overall admission rates for that year. Perhaps you can reveal the actual admission rates for these two groups?</p>
<p>TO: xjyz:</p>
<p>Don't be silly ... of course they do. Generally this info is not available until the Fall, however. As I have said, the admit rate for early pool deferrees can vary somewhat, but over time has been similar to the admit rate for "regular" RD applicants.</p>
<p>So (and I do not yet know precisely how many deferrees were admitted for the class of 2010) as a rule of thumb, you can project that the deferrees and the "regular" RD applicants will be admitted in proportion to their fraction of the total pool.</p>
<p>TO duality:</p>
<p>I am sorry to correct you again, but your assumptions are not accurate. What you need to remember is that the pool from which "regular" 2009 RD applicants were drawn was not 18,500 but 21,500. </p>
<p>Look: assume that ALL the RD round admits (1,210 of them) were drawn from the ranks of the "regular" applicants: this means that their admit rate would have been about 6.5% maximum (1210 from 18,500). We know this wasn't the case. If both deferrees and "regular" RD applicants were admitted at the same rate, then that rate was 5.5% for each.</p>
<p>Byerly:</p>
<p>Then for my class (2009), how many EA defers were ultimately admitted?</p>
<p>At least internally, Harvard must know. They certainly know whether a candidate applied EA or RD, and they certainly know whether that candidate was admitted.</p>
<p>I have the number, but not in my current location. I'll get it later if I conclude that I am free to release it. For the Class of 2008, I believe there were an abnormally low 100 some odd deferred admits, while Yale admitted 249 deferrees.</p>
<p>Byerly, I agree with you on that point, but you misunderstand the figure I'm trying to reach. I'm trying to find out, of the 18501 regular decision applicants (not including the deferees), how many of them were admitted, and what's the admission rate for them; as well as out of the 3187 deferrees, how many of them were admitted, and what's the admission rate for them. The comparison I'm trying to make is whether these two separate admission rates are equal. I guess I am asking the same question as xjayz, that is, to find out how many EA deferees were ultimately admitted, and thereby calculating this final comparison.</p>
<p>I know what you're asking, and I'll give you the same answer. </p>
<p>Assume that, over time, the admit rate for "deferreds" and "regular" RD applicants is roughly similar. Historically that has been true, although there is no "quota" and the ratio can differ from year to year.</p>
<p>I think we can all agree that if you are deferred, your chances of acceptance is basically the same as the regular RD applicant. As an EA defer myself who got in RD, I feel that an EA deferred applicant may be a "tip factor" in the process. However, for the "tip factor" to come into play, one has to be an extremely qualified candidate in the committee's eyes. Just for reference, here's my EA defer letter:</p>
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<p>The Committee on Admissions has just completed its Early Action meetings
during which your application for admission was reviewed. After very
careful consideration, we were unable to take a definite action on your
candidacy at this time and therefore have deferred our decision until the
regular spring meetings.</p>
<p>Please be assured that your entire application will be considered again
thoroughly. While it is impossible to predict individual admission
decisions, in recent years students whose applications were deferred have
been admitted at various rates, at times close to those for Regular Action
candidates. We will communicate the Committee's decision to you in April.</p>
<p>We hope you will write to us if you have new information to add to your
application materials. Recent grades or test results, activities, honors,
or other accomplishments would be of interest to the Committee as it
reviews your application again in the spring meetings.</p>
<p>Please let us know if we can be of further assistance. You have our best
wishes for a rewarding and productive year.</p>
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