Similar story for my daughter. Deferred by Elon with stats which had previously gotten kids from her highly ranked HS in. She did visit campus and did express sincere interest. She was accepted into a couple other schools, which in previous years, were far more difficult to gain admission versus Elon. There was a marked increase in Elon applications from her HS (30+ this year vs only a half dozen 5 years ago) and that likely is part of the reason the bar has been raised. I think that Elon has done a great job in raising their profile and standard - good on them.