I am a senior high-school student just finishing American college application. I think I am good both in social and academic. Actually, I had not bad standardized test scores and good extracurricular activities; I am very friendly with my friends. But one of my biggest disadvantages, as I thought, is that I am oversensitive. If someone does not like me, I may feel very bad and think he or she will set me up. Those days I got deferred by several schools and I was a little lost my sanity. I once thought that even maybe someone in my class may send defamatory emails about me to the college admission. God! Even though I knew this hardly could be possible, but I just cannot get rid of this thinking. Could someone help me!! Will the university admission pay attentions to the defamatory emails?? Or maybe I just think too much. I really want to find someone and open my heart to talk. I once thought I was competitive in the school I selected to apply for…Why all got deferred…
You need to seek counseling. Your post sounds paranoid.
You think some one sent nasty emails to your colleges about you? Well, that is extremely unlikely. But if they did, colleges would ignore such emails, because usually these types of incidents are due to one person having a grudge against another. If anything, the college would see if the person who sent an email was applying to the same college and it would be a negative against the person who sent the email. Please dismiss this idea. It is very rare for people to email admissions about another student, and it only makes the person who sent the email look bad.
You may have been deferred for dozens of reasons. No idea where you applied, but the more selective the college, the less likely you are to get in, or to be deferred or offered the waitlist. MANY students are deferred and it isn’t because someone tried to sabotage them by writing emails. Hopefully you applied to some colleges that you are likely to get into. You just have to wait until decisions are released.
I’m almost certain nobody would send a nasty email in an attempt to sabotage your chances of admission. And if they did, colleges would likely not pay much attention to it, as petty teenagers are not reliable sources of information. Your english seems a bit spotty. Are you an international student? This may be part of the reason you got deferred.
It is highly unlikely that anyone sent such an e-mail, but - on the remote possibility that someone did - the admissions office would have attempted to corroborate the allegations by contacting your school or even trying to check your on-line profile. That happens infrequently, but I attended a presentation several years ago where an admissions officer said that they do that occasionally.
Colleges lack the resources to check every applicant’s Facebook or Twitter profiles, but this woman said that they will do so if they receive some sort of tip advising them to look into it. The tip might come from a rival student or parent, but it could also come from someone at the applicant’s high school.
In conclusion, then, the answer to your question is: “probably not, but it’s possible.” The question is whether there is anything that might arouse concerns. Remember that a deferral is not a rejection. Had there been any serious damage done to your application you would have been rejected outright. I’m presuming that these were selective colleges, which means that they wanted to see how you compare to entire, final pool of applicants.
No college would reject you merely on the basis of unsubstantiated character attacks from unaccountable sources.
OP, you sound a little paranoid (he said dryly). No one tampered with your application. Tearing your hair out and losing your sanity over applications you have already sent and possible arch-nemeses you have never met will not help you.
Eat some ice cream.