OMG - I got deferred, now what!

eltigre69
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 01:22:25 +0000

Please answer as truthfully as you can. . .

Did the majority of SCEA deferred applicants last year to Princeton get admitted in the RD round?

Did 10% of SCEA deferred applicants to Princeton get admitted in the RD round?

Did 5% of SCEA deferred applicants to Princeton get admitted in the RD round?

Did 2.5% of SCEA deferred applicants to Princeton get admitted in the RD round?

How would I know any of these things? I am literally just a student lol. I have nothing to do with admissions. I’ll answer “truthfully”: I have no clue. lol.

You sir, or ma’am, are the exception to the rule – and it would be helpful in all your enthusiasm to acknowledge that fact.

Low percentages do not make deferral = rejection a “rule.”

Listen, I’m not trying to give anyone false hope. I am trying to “help OTHER prospective applicants in their quest for the reality in their chances” by saying that they are nonzero. That is literally all I am saying. Being reasonable means acknowledging a chance that you may get in RD. Is it small? Sure. But critically, it’s nonzero. As the guy who stood up for me (thanks lol) said, there’s a reason deferrals exist. Colleges don’t need to “kindly” reject people. It’s not like you’re breaking up with someone and trying not to hurt their feelings lol. The reason they defer instead of reject you is that there is a possibility they might want to accept you RD (which I was!). I stand by my original post: be realistic about your chances and apply to other schools RD. I agree with what you said here:

Yes it did turn out fine, 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 totally think people should look into and apply to other schools, and many of the schools I looked into after being deferred SCEA I really loved and would have been happy going to! With so many great schools out there I think it’s ridiculous for students to have one “dream school.” Though I am now happy at Princeton, I believe I would have been happy many of the places I applied RD as well. All I’m saying is that this statement:

a deferral is a very nice, actually kind type of rejection

is categorically false. Because by that logic Princeton “kindly rejected” me by deferring me. Yet now I go to school here. That’s really it.