<p>@calliemoon11 Never mind, I was at Stanford haha</p>
<p>@calliemoon11 Nice to see another So Cal applicant! The local alumni club is so active here, and it seems like a lot of its members are associated with colleges in the area. </p>
<p>@arielle17 I was just looking at the crushes/compliments website! </p>
<p>@thingenthusiast Yes, it is! It’s incredible to see how strong the Harvard community is.</p>
<p>woahhh socal people! </p>
<p>Do we have any stats on how many deferred applicants get accepted RD?</p>
<p>@entrebusecon I think last year it was like 100? The stats aren’t good.</p>
<p>@entrebusecon Yeah…apparently, the rate is about the same as the rate for RD people. </p>
<p>Ouch</p>
<p>Yep :(</p>
<p>It’s quite odd to me that H defers as many as it does, though. Yale outright denied admission to well over 1000 last year, Stanford even more I believe. It would have been nice to get a definite answer come mid-December… </p>
<p>Haha that compliments/crushes page makes it seem like there’s so much sexual frustration/ tension at Harvard. But of course the students represented by that page are a tiny sample. </p>
<p>@Karabekian I know, right?! But yes, that’s probably why.</p>
<p>@steinway I guess Harvard just loves its applicants more.</p>
<p>I would prefer a definite answer. But if i got deferred i’d probably see it as a rejection anyway.</p>
<p>Can we find any sort of hope in the fact that the acceptance rate for deferred students is about the same as that for any regular decision applicant? I know Harvard always says that the strength of their early pool is incredible but if they have to defer so many great people I would expect the deferred acceptance rate during regular to be at least somewhat higher. On the other hand, the regular pool is much larger so it’s difficult to make any valid predictions about what goes down behind the scenes. </p>
<p>I think it’s best to view deferral as an early wait list.</p>
<p>@doxology my counselor said to view a deferral, at least from Harvard as a rejection. They defer more people than they accept and reject combined. It’s a courtesy thing for them. When people get deferred, they feel like there was hope for them. It keeps their applicant numbers up. </p>
<p>@steinway I am in agreement with you! I’d rather see a denial in December than one in March!</p>
<p>@Karabekian I found the page fun! </p>