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<li>A looot of ED kids got rejected/deferred. I was deferred by Brown. Spots will open up, but not to that extent.</li>
<li>Applying early and then getting deferred does not give you an advantage over RD kids. About 10% of deferred kids get accepted.</li>
<li>Nope.</li>
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<p>I dunno. Seems like there are better reasons to encourage deferred kids. A lot of this is true though- a deferral usually means that you were close but had a soft spot somewhere in your app. Now is the time to find that spot and correct it.</p>
<p>I find what’s most encouraging about the idea of a deferral is that you now have time to improve your app and put some really cool stuff in your admissions counselor’s hands (such as new rec letters, some new achievements, some things you didn’t get to mention, ect), and at a time where your app will probably be in admissions’ hands. For RD, they have one shot at one deadline and that is it. For you guys, send stuff around early to mid-early February and that’ll give your admissions officer something to rally for you with. You’ve already qualified yourself as UChicago material. Now’s the time to do a little extra, and that’s pretty sweet.
Goodluck, all of you.</p>