Anyone think admissions defers more strange this year?

[suemag]

Silly me! I thought applying Dec3 WAS early !!!!! I had NO IDEA that early for rolling admissions was OCT. Live and learn. I willl be more prepared for dd2

[along1]

My d applied to the PA program at Quinnipiac in Oct & did not get in with a 2000 SAT and excellent ECs, her grades in general were above their averages.. The Admissions Counselor said it was because of a C+ in Honors Chemistry in her sophomore year, which had been a B/B- average until her finals, for which she studied like crazy, overdid it I think, panicked and did terribly. She was pretty confident of getting in so we hadn't given too much thought to the other schools and now she is struggling with making a decision. Just a word of caution to future applicants, every grade counts!

[cnp55]

I know a young woman with similar stats who was also deferred from Quin.
She had flirted with applying at the Ivy level, but actually sent applications to a bunch of less selective LACs in the Connecticut-New York area. Has in hand, two acceptances, an acceptance to the honors program at a popular state U, a January admission to a nice LAC in Massachusetts and a whole handful of waitlists to places like Connecticut College and Skidmore.

[originaloog]

With QU having rolling admissions it seems most likely that this was the problem. Once a program is filled with admits, future applicants are deferred regardless of their qualifications. That's the way it typically goes.

So be warned. If applying to a college with rolling admissions, apply as early as possible and make sure all material needed for the complete application is also in as early as possible.

[copter]

My son applied late Nov 07, his SAT's & GPA were lower than stats cited in original post, and he checked need FA. He was accepted and offered top $ dean's scholar award (as published on the school website).

Maybe it was gender, maybe it was geographical diversity (we're not from Boston or NYC metro areas), maybe it was his intended major (communications), maybe it was his EC's, maybe it was an unexpectedly larger pool of applicants, maybe the admissions counselor had a visceral, negative reaction to your friend's daughter's essay? Though originaloog's ideas seems quite likely.

Who knows? The whole process is puzzling to me.

It seems like she'll do well wherever she ends up in the fall.