From Deny to Defer status

4boyzsmom
Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:07:31 +0000

My son got denied ED from his dream school (Carnegie Mellon). Their policy is to allow students who were denied ED to fill out a request form and change status to defer to RD. He can’t apply to his first choice college (College of Sciences, Math specifically) and will need to write the supplemental essay again to explain his second choice. I’m thinking that selective schools are looking at every nuance so if he wanted Math so much, how come he changes his mind to Statistics or Computer Science (both require taking many math classes). Anyone has tips on how he should approach the essay so it is viewed favorably by admissions? he really likes the school and likes Math/problem solving (less building, hence why not applying to engineering). Thank you.