From Deny to Defer status

blossom
Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:56:06 +0000

Before he goes too far down this path- are all his other applications done? Is there another school in that pile that he can fall in love with over the next two weeks?

Does the admissions office have statistics on how many kids who move from deny to defer end up getting accepted? If it’s a miniscule number I’d be inclined to start shifting the “dream” elsewhere. Sure- do another essay. Sure- talk about math is math- the language of computer science, the fundamental building block of statistical analysis. Sure- keep CMU on the radar.

But at some point it starts to feel like too much energy expended on a moonshot, and not enough love being shown to the places which have better odds of accepting him.