<p>here is some advice on deferral to a poster who said deferrals = rejected… all bs </p>
<p>One way that many colleges look at deferrals from the ED round is that the candidate is someone they would consider admitting, but perhaps didn’t stand out as much as some of the other ED applicants (the ones they admitted). So they defer the candidate in order to be able to see how he/she stacks up against the larger pool of applicants in the RD round. That is, they’re holding their options open.</p>
<p>Also, I’m not sure I’d interpret the statistics as the other Poster did. While a higher percentage of ED applicants is admitted when compared to the percentage of applicants admitted in the RD round, it doesn’t mean that a single individual’s chances of admission go down from the ED round to the RD round. Statistics such as percentage admission rely on a pool concept and an individual applicant is not a pool of applicants.</p>
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<p>All that is to say, hang in there if you still love Hamilton, make sure there are other schools on your list you love too, and good luck to you.</p>