@Massmomm That’s awful! Deferred then waitlisted is just mean. That happened to one of my friends last year at Harvard. She ended up getting into MIT, Princeton, Yale, & UPenn. She’s at Yale now and she couldn’t hate Harvard more!! It’s comforting to know that being deferred isn’t the end of the world. I’m sure your son ended up where he was meant to be, and so did my friend, and in the end so will I.