<p>Honestly, the closer I get to D-Day... I'm not so sure anymore.</p>
<p>Deferred.</p>
<p>Deferred at Stanford means you have a chance, not like other schools.</p>
<p>Although a rejection just gets it over with. lol</p>
<p>deferred...stanford doesn't defer as much as other ivies do. like tubaman said, you actually will have a chance later on.</p>
<p>if you like a school, i completely don't get why you would want to be rejected</p>
<p>I'm not sure I can handle the disappointment of not getting in twice. I can barely focus on anything else as it is.</p>
<p>^Agreed. Personally, I think it gives an incentive to work harder on the rest of your applications (if you procrastinate and haven't finished them yet, like moi) once you get rejected. That's just my two cents.</p>
<p>Deferred..........</p>
<p>Definitely Deferred since I get one more chance! </p>
<p>But of course...I would rather be accepted :D</p>
<p>Though who knows about the chances of that happening?</p>
<p>Yeah, deferral means you actually get a second look. I've also noticed that the unqualified legacies either get waitlisted or rejected AFTER deferral (not outright rejected usually). I'm not sure if this always happens, but I've seen it happen a lot of times to legacies at my HS.</p>
<p>At this point in time, I'd rather be rejected because I feel that if I wasn't good the first time around, why should the second time around be any different?
On the other hand, come next Friday, Saturday if I get rejected, I will probably have preferred deferral because it means a second chance. If I do get deferred, I'll be upset initially, but I'll be grateful that it's not the end.</p>
<p>you would be a fool to prefer a rejection over a deferral...even if you get dinged and re-apply as a transfer im sure it looks better to have been deferred than outright rejected.</p>
<p>Deferral because it means I get a second chance. Also, as some people said before, Stanford is unlike many other top schools who defer a lot of people. Stanford only defers a little more than they accept. </p>
<p>Then again, if I do get a deferral, it will probably initially feel the same as a rejection.</p>
<p>Uh... deferred... lol. Who wants to be rejected?</p>
<p>I think I'd rather be rejected.</p>
<p>Being deferred is like getting a 790 on the SAT - sooo close to that 800 but no cigar. Except it's like that feeling times a billion.</p>
<p>If I'm rejected at least that AP Calc BC test I forgot to mention, that extra-curricular activity I forgot to add, or that awkward sentence in my essay wouldn't have mattered. If you're deferred, it's another story: you could have gotten in had you tried harder on your applications.</p>
<p>Deferred because I know that when I'm rejected I will be thinking "Ugh, I wasn't even good enough for deferral?"</p>
<p>Well, I was just deferred at Stanford, and I guess it's better than rejection. It means that I have to fill out a ton more applications and wait another three months for a final decision...</p>
<p>I mean, it was disappointing of course, but it's better than rejection. At least I can put off the inevitable until April... ;]</p>