<p>^ Deferred ED applicants were already considered for interviews during the ED round. If they didn’t get an interview then, I feel as though it’d be unlikely for them to get an interview now (assuming that they do, in fact, get “reconsidered”).</p>
<p>If there weren’t enough alumni in the area to interview the ED applicants, logically it seems it’d be even more difficult to accommodate all the RD applicants, unless there were fewer applicants or more alumni.</p>