<p>so i got deferred from yale SCEA - do you think that means i have slightly higher or lower chances? </p>
<p>on the one hand, it could mean that my chances are a bit higher, because they know that they probably have a higher matriculation chance with me if i applied early maybe? and, since i was deferred and not rejected that means that at least i have some qualities they might be looking for.</p>
<p>on the other hand, i could say that since i didnt get in early, why would they take me RD?</p>
<p>for all you others who were deferred too, what do you think? :)</p>
<p>i want a likely letter :x wonder if they’re sent to int’l student though. it’d probably take a month or so to get to me where i am though, lol.</p>
<p>hm…so you dont think being deferred early has any impact at all on the way your application is viewed? or, it’s not a reflection of your RD chances?</p>
<p>Internationals hardly get likelies. And if they magically do, maybe tops 5 a year, I am quite sure they are only sent to URMs or sportjockeys, who have excelled :P</p>
<p>I think that if anything it gives us maybe takes us from a 8% to 10% chance, I’m not sure that those are accurate, but you know what I mean. I definitly dont think its going to hurt us, but looking at the big picture there is no dobut its still going to be tough.</p>
<p>I was deferred from Brown earlier this year. I did some research after being deferred. I don’t think it’s a bad sign neccesarily, but I do think it’s a little harder to get in after being deferred. </p>
<p>The reason being–schools, at least Brown, normally accept 10 percent of their deferrees. So it’s about the same admission rate as it is for the regular decision applicants, but it’s from a slightly more competitive pool because all these applicants were deferred–none of them were neccesarily rejects. </p>
<p>I’m not sure if anyone gets what I’m saying?</p>
<p>^I get what you’re saying. Deferrees are probably more qualified than the average RD applicant, so the 10% among the deferred pool is particularly brutal.</p>
<p>^That’s one way of looking at it. But, i read somewhere from yale that deferred applicants and normal RD applicants are all put in one pool and judged, its not that its 10% of deferred applicants get in specifically. so since we’re more qualified than the average RD applicant and being judged in one big pool, maybe we have a slightly higher chance :/</p>
<p>I would say it doesn’t matter one way or the other in your case. You will either be accepted or rejected on your merits, it doesn’t matter if they take 80% of deferred students if you are among the 20% they reject.
So I would just advise not to worry about it, we will know definitely in all of our cases in 13 days, which really is not that much considering how long we have waited.</p>
<p>^ if you consider the relative nature of time whereupon it passes slower when things move faster, and considering that my brain’s electrons are moving wildly in stress, those 13 days feel like a year >_<</p>
<p>Oh I think taking your mind off of it is a good idea. I mean us thinking about it won’t increase our chances of getting accepted. And it would be terrible to build up all that stress only to get rejected, which like 90%+ people will.</p>
<p>just so you know, any guess is still a guess. eventually, the result will come soon. I am an international student and got a interview from Yale after being deferred…I was hoping this interview could mean something, but I knew Yale is Yale. Chances are so rare. Good luck to everyone…</p>
<p>I just hope I get into one of yale, upenn, brown, or dartmouth, the four i’ve got left. it’s looking remote at this point…i applied for aid as an int’l student and brown/upenn arent need-blind. plus we’re in a recession >_<</p>