<p>@MasterThinker Oh definitely. I think continued interest will be a major factor as you said. It’ll be interesting to see what happens. Congrats on Northwestern!</p>
<p>Okay, not to be argumentative, but Chicago is hardly the only university that defers a very significant portion of its applicants–Last year, Princeton rejected less than 50 people SCEA and deferred the rest. Yale, Caltech, and MIT all have very robust deferral groups, while among the rest of the USNWR top 10 the rejection rate is higher. I suspect it’s a symptom of EA/SCEA with a marginally weaker yield rate–the only non-binding early schools which (AFAIK) don’t have large deferral pools are Harvard/Stanford, which can expect 90+% early yield. ED schools, since they are assured of 95+% early yield, have the “luxury” of being able to reject more candidates.</p>
<p>@PGLaw272 Thanks!</p>
<p>@kaarboer I don’t think anybody was saying that UChicago was the only one. Unfortunately it is a harsh reality among the top 1%. I will say in the context of this thread the facts are somewhat comforting, however slightly. </p>
<p>Accepted!! 
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<p>welp at least they didn’t outright reject me. ugh deferred</p>
<p>How many deferees? Any speculation?</p>
<p>@kaarboer what do you mean by early yield?</p>
<p>also deferred. but at least the main suspense is over; congrats on everyone who got in! And for my fellow deferrees don’t lose hope. there are good things to come:)</p>
<p>what are we supposed to do now? deferrees</p>
<p>@PGLaw272 Ah, my apologies.</p>
<p>@hopelessandhappy The yield rate for students who are accepted early.</p>
<p>@awh671 1. Apply to other schools 2. send a letter of continued interest to Chicago 3. make sure mid-year reports and whatnot go through 4. wait</p>
<p>@kaarboer What do you mean letter of continued interest?</p>
<p>I read somewhere that typically EA at Chicago results are: 1300 were accepted, 1300 were deferred and several thousand were rejected…but that isn’t reflected on this forum for this year…</p>
<p>@gossipgirlxoxox </p>
<p>Something along the lines of</p>
<p>"Dear [Regional Admissions Director],</p>
<p>I would like to reaffirm my interest in attending the University of Chicago as a member of the Class of 2019. I would like to take this chance to update you and your office on a few notable events that have happened since November.</p>
<p>[Events/changes]</p>
<p>Best regards,</p>
<p>[your name]"</p>
<p>Of course, you can make it longer, explaining things you love about the university that you didn’t say in your initial app, etc. Just don’t make it too long, or you might come off as pleading.</p>
<p>If you’re really into UChicago, you can state in your letter that if they accept you, you will come no matter what your other decisions are. Don’t do this unless you’re willing to to walk the walk.</p>
<p>Edit: And, according to someone on FB, it was 10% admitted, 55% deferred, 35% rejected. Those numbers sound right, but I’m not sure of their provenance</p>
<p>accepted but going to Stern 
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<p>@adelawang ; Can I take your spot? Lol…</p>
<p>@sofritachipotle Ugh! You ruined my perfect opportunity to finally use “claimed.” in real life (…Walking Dead reference).</p>
<p>accepted </p>
<p>For those of you wondering about the high number of deferrals, please read this:</p>
<p><a href=“Early programs not created equal - Yale Daily News”>http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/01/24/early-programs-not-created-equal/</a></p>
<p>As seen in that informative article (under the heading “Not All Deferrals Created Equal”), last year, Princeton rejected 1.3% (1.3%!) of early applicants, and deferred about 80% of early applicants. Harvard rejected 7.8% of applicants, and deferred about 70% of applicants.</p>
<p>As the above data shows, schools with early action policies tend to defer quite a bit. Schools with Early Decision policies (like Northwestern, for example), can reject much more liberally in the early round.</p>
<p>Early Action schools (probably all early action schools) reject conservatively and defer liberally because they’re operating with considerable information asymmetry. For ED schools, if they accept a student, they know that student will attend. For EA schools - especially places like Chicago that aren’t single-choice - there’s no guarantee that will happen. Some of the EA applicants have applied ED elsewhere.</p>
<p>Consequently, EA schools like Chicago defer so as not to “waste” an acceptance on a student who will go elsewhere and bring down yield. Similarly, students deferred at Chicago but accepted ED elsewhere will withdraw their Chicago application. Deferring often allows Chicago to better “see” the preferences of its applicants.</p>
<p>For those decrying Chicago’s strategy, please note that it has few options available. It could go to ED, like many of its “true” peers (read: Columbia, Duke, Northwestern, Penn, etc.) which is the ultimate form of protecting yield (nearly a 100% chance that an ED accept will attend), but that actually reduces student choice. </p>
<p>Deferrals aren’t pleasant, but they’re preferable to having all schools save the super-elites (Harvard et. al.) go toward ED. ED, in my view, is a corrosive admissions strategy. </p>
<p>Well, I was deferred. Congrats to all those who were accepted (like all five of you </p>