<p>@Mango15
- A 4.5 is A LOT different from a 3.0UW/3.88 weighted GPA
- They are MUCH more likely to forgive low SATs, which are one day in a student’s life, than they are to forgive 4 years of low class grades
- No offense, but defferals in many cases mean nothing. A unhooked white girl in my grade with the equivalent of a 3.7 UW GPA (ranked about 180/430) was deferred from Yale this year, along with both the other kids who applied there. Every kid from my school who applied to Duke, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Princeton was deffered this year (apart from the one or two accepte). NOT ONE kid was rejected from those schools, and there were like 20 of them who make up the deferrals. I can GUARANTEE 90% will not get in because they simply do not have the grades or stats to get in. Some of them even admitted their apps weren’t that great and said they only got deferred because no one was being rejected. As a matter of fact, 8 kids applied EA to UChicago. One was accepted, the other 7 were deferred. Many of these schools simply don’t give out many rejections in the early round unless a kid has no hope in hell of getting in. But being deferred does not mean you will get in. Sorry to tell you, and I really hope you do end up getting in, but saying you got deferred (not waitlisted, just deferred, meaning they either didn’t get to an app or wanted to hold off rejecting someone just in case they look better compared to others who apply regular… because otherwise why would they take someone later when they didn’t want them at first, or why wouldn’t they just accept someone they really loved?) does not make you a adequate authority to tell this kid he’s definitely going to get into schools when his stats imply he very well may not get in.</p>