<p>I would encourage you to double check this by reading the Oberlin Admission blogs but – when we attended Oberlin info session, we were told that ED at Oberlin is typically admit or deny, not a derferral to regular admission and a student who is rejected at ED cannot re-apply in the regular admission pool that year. They will defer some ED cases to regular pool, rather than deny, in order to look at more grades etc. However, their ordinary decision is admit/deny not admit/defer.</p>