Deferred ED Dartmouth-anyone ever admitted?

DrDrewsmom
Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:16:17 +0000

yankeeboy,
my S was also deferred from Dartmouth. I had read that a deferral is sometimes given to kids of alums as a “polite” rejection, but neither my H nor I are alums. In fact, the more I thought about it, the more it kind of baffles me. Based on his SAT alone, I’m surprised he wasn’t flat-out rejected, but of course I’m glad he wasn’t! I suspect his teacher recs were VERY outstanding and we are from an underrepresented area. He also may have had a slight nudge out of the rejected pile from a coach, but we aren’t certain on that.
His school is (yet again) recalculating their ranking system/weighted grading and S has moved back up to #1 (although he shares w/ 4-5 others) out of about 470. His GC said she’d send in his updated info.
In the meantime he is being very level-headed about it. He really likes his match/safety; in fact it was his second choice after Dmouth. He has refused to retest…if that means he won’t get in, he’s OK with that.

Good luck to you!