OMG - I got deferred -- now what!

gibby
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:16:49 +0000

I posted the above on the HYP forums’s and received this reply from a Yale alumni interviewer which I thought was appropriate to share on the Harvard forum

I do believe everyone should take heed at @gibby advise and counsel. One or two instances of deferrals resulting in admission do, of course happen. But I have been doing interviews for years and years, and I can honestly say that not one of my deferred early action kids ultimately got in. We still of course wish you all the luck in the world, but I think you need to heed what the ultimate goal of the OP’s story was. The end result, even after the devastating news from Yale, turned out fine.

Yes it did, but – and I cannot stress this enough – it would also have turned out just fine if my daughter had ultimately been rejected from Harvard and had attended any other college that had accepted her, including her safety school! I strongly believe in this advice from Jeffrey Brenzel, Yale’s retired Admissions Director

After years of experience, however, here is what I know, virtually to the point of certainty: almost nothing depends on exactly which strong college admits you. Everything depends on what you decide to do once you get to a strong college, and how well prepared you are to take advantage of the infinite opportunities you will find there.