Deferring Admission

joelh
Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:16:57 +0000

Ok, I’ve got a question for everyone that I haven’t seen addressed anywhere. I applied to grad school for admission in Fall 2009. The programs I applied to were for terminal master’s degrees. I mostly got rejected, but received one unfunded offer of admission to a decent, but very expensive school. Thinking that I’d try to apply again to programs that were higher ranked and hope to receive some funding, I asked for, and received, a deferral till Fall 2010. Now however, I’m receiving email from the program I deferred congratulating me on accepting their admission offer. This wasn’t my intention. I wanted to keep the deferred offer of admission as a fail safe, provided that nothing better worked out when I reapply. Does anyone know if this is typical? I’ve scoured the university in question’s Web site and they don’t say anything about deferrals constituting an acceptance of an offer.