<p>I think it means that they don’t rank the list of deferred students in order of the possibility that you will be admitted. They will assess the pool of deferred students based on the RD pool and make a decision on each deferred student. My advice if you were deferred is to move on to other options – they defer pretty much everyone they don’t admit in the EA pool, and then either outright reject or waitlist almost all of them. And their waitlist had thousands of students on it last year.</p>