@BertieMom As a fellow parent of a deferred applicant to MIT, please don’t live with the worry that one semester B was the reason your daughter was deferred. MIT had 9,600 EA applicants and only 707 acceptances, so the fact she was deferred rather than rejected (as 2,483 others were) means that they see her as qualified. I’m reading stories on the MIT page of deferrals for kids with perfect GPAs, scores, Olympiad medals, published research, etc.–it’s just a brutal year for everyone. MIT’s website even says that deferred EA applicants will be considered for RD “without predjudice”. While an early acceptance would have been a relief, the process isn’t over yet.