<p>Perhaps it will make everyone feel better to know that my son, a URM with a 2360 on the SAT in one sitting and a 3.8ish GPA at an extremely competitive high school, was deferred. Although he is technically URM (hispanic), it was quite easy for the adcoms to figure out from his application that he has been in no way disadvantaged growing up. </p>
<p>I am sure they lumped him in with all the other really smart kids that haven’t won any major competitions or done major research and just deferred him. And this is how it should be. </p>
<p>I think the ADcoms are smarter than you people are giving them credit for.</p>