Absolutely! We had that conversation with our daughter as well and we feel the exact same way. Rejection is better than deferral so we can move on and focus on the remaining applications.
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Deferrals that will end up as rejections in the end of the RD season is painful and better to just let the applicant move on at an earlier phase.
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Agree. Deferrals really should only be for the real borderline cases evidenced by a much higher acceptance rate in RD than the general RD pool.
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I heard uPenn already sent emails to all applicants to notify decision date and time. Has anyone got a notification email from Yale Or should be received a similar email from the admission office early next week?
Yale already released decision dates a long time ago in the application portal.
Itâs Dec 15 at 5 PM EST.
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What I meant to say is that would Yale send another confirmation email early next week reaffirming the decision release date and time. Thank you for your reply.
I agree with this. Some highly-selective schools admit a certain amount and defer a very similar numberâso that deferral group is truly the ânext batchâ in, then they accept at a higher % than RD from that deferral group. Thus, a deferral is actually a reasonable chance, rather than highly unlikely (for the schools that defer the vast majority of Early apps and %acceptance from deferral is the same or LESS than acceptance % in RD).
There is no need to string that many kids along. Keep deferrals reasonably limited.
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Stanford and MIT only defer a very small % of candidates, but MIT doesnât consider legacy status in admissions, so it has no reason to defer!
Deferrals are primarily for legacy students and schools with whom they have an ongoing relationship. However, another side to this is that deferrals are often ânicerâ than rejections, and if you have to delay the pain, why not delay it?
Yale Admissions stated the following in a blog they posted:
The bottom line is that âdeferralâ does not mean âwe need more informationâ or âsomething wasnât good enough.â It means we see a lot of great potential in you and we just need a little more time to sit in that committee room and mull things over.
And from the Admission Podcast, one thing that comes up, again and again, is that your application is not compared by itself, but rather itâs compared to EVERYONE else in the applicant pool and some years, they have stronger candidates from one region and vice versa another year. They donât correct this but rather let it âplay outâ as they state it balances in the long run.
So sometimes you get unlucky if there are a lot of strong candidates one year from your region, and they need more time to compare your application to others from your region in the RD pool.
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Agreeâbut schools that defer 75%-85% ofEarly apps(Yale in the past, Harvard, Princeton, many others) are clearly not using deferral for legacies primarily! That is way too high a percentage to defer, for any school, and goes far beyond legacies or other special cases. I appreciate the schools that cull the deferrals to a reasonable small group who are actually close to being admits.
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Definitely!
This is incorrect. Stanford and Caltech have historically deferred very few. MIT on the other hand defers about 65% of its EA applicants.
Are you referring specifically to Yale or schools in general?
What does the Yale ID number mean from an FA email? Note: Iâm not talking about the Application Record ID number. I got the Yale ID number last week in an email from FA asking to upload documents?
Donât infer meaning at the moment. They issued you an ID because they need your additional information uploaded to a secure platform with the right identifiers.
This is from Yaleâs website:
https://finaid.yale.edu/award-letter/financial-aid-terminology/student-identification-number-sid
And hereâs another one:
It might be a temporary ID as isnât matriculation only after enrollment?
As painful as it is to accept, I got the same thing and I think at this point, we can only take it to mean what it is: YALE requesting for more financial aid. Nothing more, nothing less.
I know itâs easy to want to allude or read hidden meanings because weâre so close to the release date⊠but all we can do is hope for the best of news.
We canât do anything now but wait 
Take all of this info with a grain of salt. Just as a fun observation. Nothing more. Nothing less. We didnât receive any email from Yale FA. I am a proud Dad no matter where my daughter ends up going.
But just for fun, if everyone, who got a letter or email or any form of communication from Yale FA with a Yale ID or student ID, would post after the decisions are released, if theyâve been accepted, deferred or rejected, we can put an end to this theory, or the so called portal astrology, once and for all 
at least we can help the next year applicants lol
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Presumably, if you have submitted all relevant forms already, you wonât get said email with SID, so not receiving would not necessarily be a bad sign. Good idea to ask people to post updates!
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Lol, thatâs what weâre hopping for since we didnât get any emails 
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us too
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