<p>For the most part, obviously.
“B- But they said it isn’t”
Why do you think the deferral acceptance rate is so much lower (almost half) of the normal acceptance rate?
They defer way too many people when they should reject them. This causes a disproportionate number of deferred applicants to end up getting rejected anyway come March.</p>
<p>The acceptance rate for deferred applicants (5.7%) is very similar to the overall regular action acceptance rate (5.9%) although slightly lower than the acceptance rate for US students who applied regular action (7.5%).</p>
<p>That being said I think they could probably defer less people and reject more people outright.</p>
<p>a HS classmate of mine was deferred and later accepted in the 2016 regular round at MIT. Don’t give up hope. If you give up, it’s all over.</p>
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And this hasn’t always historically been true – it’s not that the rate is artificially held low. There have been years when the acceptance rate for EA deferred students has matched the acceptance rates for EA admits.</p>
<p>Absolutely. I have seen many, many deferred students get accepted. They are trying to get a sense of the whole class, as a result, only those who are sure admits or sure to not be admitted get decided in the early round. Deferral is the normal and most common state.</p>
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<p>This statement makes no sense.</p>
<p>What molliebatmit meant was that EA deferral kids get accepted during RD at (sometimes) the same rate of the EA acceptances.</p>
<p>Look at it this way: Processing an application in committee takes a lot of time, time that MIT knows is valuable, they would not defer someone unless they feel they have a chance as this would just be a waste of time.</p>