Just a secret about SCEA and deferrals

Mythbuster2000
Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:56:09 +0000

First, if Yale found this out the day before, there is no plausible way to set up admissions notifications and double and triple check their correctness in under 24 hours. This should be common sense.

Second, this is what the counselor was probably really told: There were many qualified applicants this year (they tell everyone this). Your students who were very impressive have a strong chance at being accepted in the RD round (its plausible that the counselor may be told this). Further, the admissions office may have clarified the process to the counselor. Each cycle, Yale roughly creates “piles” for applications and its very feasible that 1200 applications made it into the “serious second look” pile. After this, the process fairly narrowed it down to 700. Yes, those other 500 are very qualified, but we didn’t have an acceptance stamped on them the day before decisions come out. This explanation could easily be construed by an upset student trying to justify his deferral. The OP may really think what he is saying, but he/she should look at this sensibly and realize it is not possible.