<p>Just had my mom read over the phone my letter from Georgetown -- was deferred to the second round.</p>
<p>Pretty depressed about it at this point, nothing I can do but get started on those applications again.</p>
<p>Hey! At least you weren't rejected.</p>
<p>Tlaktan:</p>
<p>I'm sorry to hear that. I thought you would do so well at G'town--and you may still get in. So write to G'town, express your continued interest. When you have further news such as your mid-year report or some EC activity-related info, make sure to contact the adcom. Perhaps get some additional recs? There's no great urgency on this, however. Right now, you should focus on completing RD apps in time for the Dec. 31 deadline.
You do have some very good colleges on your list. If I remember correctly Bowdoin was on it, right? My S very seriously considered going there and I know others love it.
I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.</p>
<p>Tlaktan, I'm so sorry. I will keep my fingers crossed for you --- and hope that you will also get accepted to some other terrific schools in the meantime.</p>
<p>I don't know exactly what to say. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the SAT I took in December, hopefully it came out to the upper 1400s (as I'm expecting it to be) so Georgetown can give me a second look.</p>
<p>But now the pool is bigger and the chances are worse. :: depressed sigh ::</p>
<p>Marite and Carolyn:</p>
<p>Thanks for all the support. Right now I'm too depressed to do anything except rest for the time being. My girlfriend fainted at a competition this past weekend and I've been busy just being with her.</p>
<p>For the record, my midyear report has already been submitted, and I may try the teacher recs. Do you think they took the midyear report into account, considering how no one else turned it in?</p>
<p>tlak-- i feel for you, bud, as a fellow deferree of Georgetown EA. I almost wish I hadn't applied early to Georgetown at all, this feeling is just so bad.</p>
<p>Tlak and Babybird,</p>
<p>i am sorry to hear about your deferrals. I know that your will both be accepted to a bunch of amazing schools.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot. It really is meaningful. :-).. This week has just been a bad week.</p>
<p>worst day of my life= today</p>
<p>but listen, almost no one gets in EA
apparently they only let in the people who make it very, very clear they will go to Gtown if accepted</p>
<p>Hey Babybird, come on AIM. We can talk about deferral together. :-)</p>
<p>Tlaktan:</p>
<p>Today is not the day to be looking forward just yet. Give it a rest and start afresh in a day or so. I'm just giving you advice when it is fresh in my mind.</p>
<p>Our school does not have a midyear report until late January. If you get something new then, do send it on. With RD, you get two more shots at SAT, so try again and see if you can boost your score.</p>
<p>Babybird: I'm sorry you got deferred, too. Will keep my fingers crossed for you as well.</p>
<p>T-
There are many other seniors (including myself) who are in the same situation as you. Don't give up hope. Also, the Georgetown EA acceptance rate according to the website is the same as the RD rate, so I don't think it's that much harder to get into RD. In fact, I worry that I'm going up against such qualified candidates like yourself at G-town. Make sure G-Town knows how much you love the school, and keep working on ther apps like everyone else said. Good luck, and you are not alone!</p>
<p>Tlaktan, sorry to hear that. You've got good advice from Marite and Carolyn, I don't have anything to add. You are a great candidate and may get in RD round, or go somewhere equally great later. Don't worry about it.</p>
<p>Babybird, same with you. Keep your hopes up; April will bring many surprises.</p>
<p>I meant April WILL bring many pleasant surprises.</p>
<p>It's getting better as time passes on.</p>
<p>After a long talk with selected Hoyas, and my girlfriend.. I've decided to press forward. Starting tomorrow, I will finish with the common application, then carry forward. :-)</p>
<p>oh, tlak...it's all we can do, right?</p>
<p>i've thrown myself even deeper into college admissions, deciding to apply to more schools and keep busy rather than think about the gaping hole that is deferral...lol</p>
<p>Yeah. That's pretty much all we can do. I'm going to keep my self innundated with paperwork as much as possible.</p>
<p>tklatan, I don't know that your chances are "worse" just because the pool is bigger, as you say. I have asked TheDad on another thread to respond to this deferral business, because it seems to me that you guys get to submit two applications, as it were -- the first one, and then a better one (meaning, supplements -- whatever you want to submit, I guess, the sky's the limit). Also, I'll bet G'town has swooped up some of its top applicants in the Early round, so they're out of your competition already. If G'town didn't think you'd be competitive with what they're standards are, as well as the applicants they expect to receive in the RD round, would they not have rejected you? (I think so.)
But what I'd like to know is -- and maybe TheDad or carolyn or another parent can reply to this -- is there a way to find out the percentage of deferrals who later get accepted RD. It seems to me there are 3 possibilities here: (1)Is a college just being "polite" & delaying the inevitable when they defer you vs. rejecting you <a href="2">"You're not a complete loser"</a> Do they look at you more favorably (either because of supplements you later send or because they sort of mentally add points because you already applied Early), (3) Do they look at you as "second tier" because you didn't make the first cut?</p>
<p>Reading the Princeton & MIT forums, both seemed to be liberal in their deferral decisions (I was thankful for that!), unless very few ppl posted who got rejected. But Columbia was vicious. Great students got outright rejected if they didn't get in; I really wondered in that case if those students would have had a cleaner chance in R round. Parents, I'd love your thoughts, experiences.</p>