<p>I checked out the “Deferral Reversal” link off this site and leafed through the other threads on this board, but I don’t quite think I’ve found the concrete answer I want. Maybe there isn’t any, but I figured I might as well pose the question.</p>
<p>HOW exactly do you get your deferral “reversed”?</p>
<p>As I’ve been reading, I’ve read things about sending extra essays, strengthening apps, etc, but honestly I feel like I am at a loss on how to do this.</p>
<p>-Trying to raise my test scores would be obscene, as they are already very high and I doubt I could do better. I don’t even think that’s allowed, for that matter anyway.
-I have already sent in a music CD as well as copies of original scores.
-I sent in extra rec-letters with my original application.
-I’m taking the exact same rigorous courses this semester as I did last semester, including my college class.
-I’ve already sent my updated college transcript (with my A in Russian1)
-I’d send an updated awards sheet, but I really don’t think I’ve won all that many things (a couple of piano festivals) since I sent in the app.
-I’ve already kept my grades up, as will be seen on the Midyear Report.</p>
<p>What else is there to do? Call my interviewer (who told me that last year, none of his six candidates got in)? Call my councelor (who already wrote me phenominal letters and I’m sure will write an excellent midyear report)? Find contests to enter and win them so I can send results? </p>
<p>Or goodness forbid, just wait?</p>
<p>Is waiting really so bad in this case? I just don’t know. I am truly befuttled as to what they want. Then again, I am “legacy” (my dad went there, although we by no means donate large sums of money… I guess you could call me a no-name legacy), which makes me think my deferral was a “polite” one or whatever. In any case, I would appreciate advice if any can give it, and I thank you in advance.</p>
<p>yeah…I really don’t know what else I can do either.<br>
If you’re satisfied with your efforts, just wait. It’s not as if you haven’t done enough. Don’t feel like you HAVE to fill up the 4 months with action.</p>
<p>Vampielinred,
I agree with haosquared: It seems as if you’ve done the max. The college isn’t looking for frantic activity & earnestness from the deferred list; rather, just like you, they are waiting, as in a few days they will receive the remainder of the tsunami (no humor intended) of applications for the RRound.</p>
<p>EA and ED are weird, & I believe there are a lot of misunderstandings about this. It is less a qualifications test than a “specialty” opportunity for the college to select particular types which they value as unusual or special or essential in some way critical to that college’s enrollment. They can grab them before the other colleges do. There is no way to predict whether a deferred applicant will be eventually accepted, rejected, or waitlisted. The reason is not because of that applicant’s qualifications (which you seem to have an abundance of). It is because every college app. is a competitive app by definition. They are looking for variety, as well as accomplishment. If one is unlucky enough to be “duplicated” by an applicant with similar areas of achievement, in a similar ethnic group, region, & identical gender, that might make a difference. That is out of your control & is obviously not a negative reflection on you. So my advice to you is relax, because clearly you’ve done your best.</p>
<p>You and I know that any college should highly value a superb college-level grade (or any learning done) in the challenging language of Russian. Languages like Russian, Hungarian, Arabic, & the Asian languages are not for the faint-of-heart, if you have grown up with Romance language roots & have a primary language of English. I’m sure your Russian will not go unnoticed by the adcom. I do believe that my daughter’s 9.5 years of foreign language were certainly helpful in her own Early acceptance, but they also might have considered her financial status to be a tip factor, or they had no one with a similar background from her region who was female.</p>
<p>Hi, I don’t have the answer either, but my S’s GC said to write a thank you note to admissions for reviewing his app and let them know that he’s still interested. S is in the same boat you are, and also a legacy (not thru me, but 3 other relatives). I’m afraid there’s not much that he could genuinely improve upon - at least that wouldn’t look absurd (retaking a 750 etc.). So perhaps appealing to them on an emotional level would help more than sending in more stats.
BTW There were 6 kids from our HS who applied EA and 5 were deferred (1 rej.) Of the 5 def. at least 3 were legacies, which makes me wonder how, exactly, that is of help.
Just be patient and hang in there!!</p>
<p>I emailed my rep. He said thanks for the inquiry and continued enthusiasm for Yale but that he couldn’t discuss any aspect of my application with me. The only advice he gave me was to send in my mid-year report and perhaps an additional rec. I’m upset that I got deferred because for me, and I think a lot of us, it was the first major “academic setback”. However, there are so many colleges out there. I’m done with Yale. It’s out of my hands. Plus, applying to other colleges made me realize how fixated I had become on Yale and how I’d ignored all the aspects that attracted me to my RD schools. I’d love to be a Bulldog but I don’t think I’d die as a Tiger or a Hoya.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the % of those accepted out of the deferred stack was last year at Yale. But I don’t think it was a very promising stat. But you can ask your counselor to reaffirm your interest and indicate that your midterm grades are way up there unlike many kids’ whose grades have gone down. You can send a letter reaffirming your interest as well and if something big come around, you can share that info with Yale. But most of all, just forget about it and focus on your other apps. You need to move on. Yes, it is possible that you will make it RD, but you have pretty much done everything possible. Obsessing over this app can just take away from the other apps where you have all sorts of possibilities. I see kids who are just stuck on a school and end up jeopardizing their other chances because they just can’t focus on their other schools some of which need some sincere demonstrated interest.</p>
<p>It has been reported on a couple of threads here already, the RD acceptance rate for EA deferred candidates at Yale last year was 14%. Considerably better than other RD applicants, but still pretty slim. However, with most of the athletes, legacies, and major hooks out of the way, the odds are probably about the same as EA for the standard ‘exceptional student’ that is not all world in something unique.</p>