| I'm not sure if this will help or not, but here goes.
I think if your son has been deferred to regular admission, he is still very much in the picture.
From what I've gleaned, since they made their admissions policy much more stringent over the last two years, if an applicant isn't up to their standards, they are simply rejected (thus the 30-35 percent acceptance rate).
I have no idea how much the current trend of an upswing in applications everywhere affected Berklee, because the school is so unique. I also have no idea how many applicants they got during the EA phase or the percentage of acceptances from that group or obviously what the yield will be.
But what I thought they explained during the Q&A for parents during the audition time (and I may have misunderstood) is that the applicants who meet their standards will be accepted, it just may be for a later semester ... that if an applicant is good enough to get in, they'll get a spot but it could be for January term instead of September.
So if I got this right, my guess would be that if your son WASN'T good enough, he would have been rejected outright. And if so, it probably comes down to the RD pool and the yield from the EA group, simply to determine if he's in for September or January.
I could definitely be wrong about this, but this was the impression I got ... good luck!
By the way, if you don't mind my asking, what is your son's instrument? |