Deferred Due to Paperwork?

<p>Hi there! This is my first time posting on CC!</p>

<p>So I was one of many Harvard deferrals yesterday. However, when I called the admissions office today, I was told that they never really had my SAT Subject Test scores (even though I sent in an additional score report the moment I received the results in November, and have the receipt to prove it from collegeboard). </p>

<p>I was then told by the lady that I actually have two separate accounts (???) and that my subject test scores were in the other one. She merged them into one account this morning, after decisions were out. She actually told me that this might well have been the reason I was deferred: that the admissions team didn’t have the scores and wanted to wait until I could take them. Except I already did. </p>

<p>Is this something that happens normally? I’m a Canadian student, so I don’t know that much about the common app and how they are received by colleges. However, I still feel this is unfair, because it wasn’t my fault those scores weren’t placed in my main account. The worst thing is, my guidance counselor actually phoned in two weeks ago and another lady told him they had received everything that was required!</p>

<p>So my question is, what course of action should I take? Of course, phoning the admissions office and asking? Contacting my admissions officer directly and explain the situation to him? (I have no idea who he is, but it’s easy to find out).</p>

<p>“Is this something that happens normally?”</p>

<p>No, it doesn’t happen often. If you had two accounts, I suspect the reason was that your SAT scores and Common Application DID NOT have identical names. Did you use the same name, same middle initial, same address, same HS for both?</p>

<p>“What course of action should I take?”</p>

<p>You don’t have any course of action. You are now deferred and your application will be reconsidered in the RD pool.</p>

<p>Gibby: yes, I had the same information for both. They received my SAT, but not my Subject Tests.</p>

<p>EDIT; so basically, they deferred me because my application was incomplete?</p>

<p>^^ Yes, sorry. There isn’t any recourse; your app will be consider again in RD.</p>

<p>Okay. Disappointed because I did everything I was supposed to, but thank you gibby for your quick replies!</p>