<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I was deferred in the SCEA round and was just asking myself when we "deferred applicants" are reconsidered? In the normal admission process or after this process? I am just wondering because if I would like to send an up-date, I want to know when to send it (I have not yet decided if I want to send one or not; what are you thinking)?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>We’re reconsidered during this regular decision round.</p>
<p>But I’m also wondering what the best time to send an update is.</p>
<p>^Go ahead and send an update now, unless you are expecting another significant honor/award within the next few weeks. If I recall correctly, I sent my update end of January/early February after being deferred. You want them to have it in your file asap since you don’t know exactly when they’ll be reviewing you.</p>
<p>^ Alright thanks. I already wrote up a letter, so I’ll probably just fax it tomorrow. I don’t really expect anything other than maybe National Merit/Achievement finalist status. Did you mention anything about Yale being your first choice in your update?</p>
<p>I got deferred SCEA and am planning on sending a letter and some other things, but 1st semester grades don’t come out until February 6th and my guidance counselor wsa going to send everything together for me… Will this get there in time? I wasn’t too worried but I would hate to not be completely evaluated</p>
<p>I sent my update last week after I got Intel STS semis. I figured that since I already applied SCEA, it would be redundant to state that Yale is my first choice.</p>
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<p>Yeah I figured that too. But some past applicants have done so, so idk.</p>
<p>I was advised to reiterate that Yale was my first choice and that I would definitely attend if accepted, so that’s what I did, but I have no idea if it actually made any difference.</p>
<p>Would it be worth waiting until I hear from National Achievement/Merit about being a finalist? (If I am one. Who knows what might have gone wrong.) I know it doesn’t take much to move onto finalist status, but I thought it’d be a good reminder for the admissions officers.</p>
<p>@livorneo </p>
<p>Did you email that to the general updating email? </p>
<p>I really don’t have anything glowing to update so if I send something it would just be "Yale is my top choice blah blah "</p>
<p>I mailed a physical letter to my admissions officer.</p>
<p>^ You mailed it to your regional admissions officer and not the actual admissions office?</p>
<p>I mailed it to the admissions office mailing address, but with my regional officer’s name on top. And I addressed the letter to my regional officer, i.e. “Dear Ms. so-and-so.” I’m sure there’s more than one way to go about it though.</p>
<p>Did you include your regional adcom’s name as part of the mailing address or just as an extra label on your envelope? </p>
<p>And in terms of the actual letter, did you basically bullet-point your new achievements/awards?</p>
<p>Sorry for all the questions haha.</p>
<p>I believe I included her name as part of the mailing address. I listed achievement/award updates on a second piece of paper, I think, though for the updates I sent to other schools, I bullet-pointed them within the letter.</p>
<p>My daughter sent an email to her regional admissions officer in early March, providing an update on her academic and extracurricular progress. She had many good things to report. No idea if that email made a difference, but she did get admitted.</p>
<p>Caution: She only used direct email because the admissions officer had specifically provided the email address at an information session and said that direct emails were OK.</p>