The Inevitable Why were you ____?

overachiever92
Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:23:15 +0000

^ I agree with some of what you’re saying. Maybe I got a little carried away with Communist, since I really don’t know all of his circumstances.

As for the part about the deferral, I disagree. The early decision system should be seen as a perk to applicants, to find out if they are getting in or not beforehand. There is a set quota for Yale as to how many applicants they can admit during this period, so not everyone qualified can get in. Getting deferred does NOT mean that (and shouldn’t feel like) your abilities as a student and person are not wanted by Yale. Rather, it should be seen as not getting the benefit of finding out early whether you got in or not. If you are meant to get in or not, you will find out RD or early, there’s no difference quite frankly. The ppl deferred have the same chance as the RD applicants to get in, and that is nothing to sneeze at, or feel sad about. If you get rejected, the tears can start rolling but before that, it’s just silly. The only difference might be that deferrees might feel like they have to keep trying in school in order to get in, but that’s something that they should be doing in either case (and pure laziness).

Also, people who get offended by their deferrals need to work out their egotistic issues, because NO ONE, absolutely NO ONE has a guaranteed invitation into Yale-caliber schools, no matter how inflated their image of their achievements might be.