<p>Roughly 1/3 of approximately 5500 EA applicants were accepted this week. I’m estimating 10 to 20% were deferred to RD. How many deferred students get accepted RD will depend upon a number of factors, probably too numerous to try and quantify at this point. While this percentage never seems to be broadcast, I estimated it at 50% several years ago in a post to try and determine the percentage of EA applicants getting accepted vs. pure RD applicants. If you were deferred, you have the “right stuff”, but admissions may want to see one more semester of grades, etc. before deciding. Keep in mind that of all the EA applicants who thought their stats were strong enough to get in early, 50% or more were rejected outright. I will bump the old post up to the top if I can find it.</p>