Deferrals at targets - big waitlist year?

[Anonymous]

The result of everyone applying to 15 schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of deferrals at targets including Florida, Wisconsin etc for high stat kids. Seeing it with my own child, their friends and on these message boards.

Do we think this is going to lead to a ton of waitlist activity and long drawn out decision process?

Anyone thinking ED1/ED2 was a better option in retrospect?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not convinced these large OOS flagships are yield protecting.

+1

[Anonymous]

Any reason why schools defer instead of rejecting? UVA tried not doing the deferral and then reverted back to doing deferrals this year but didn’t say why.

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Anonymous wrote:The result of everyone applying to 15 schools

I think this is a lot of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Any reason why schools defer instead of rejecting? UVA tried not doing the deferral and then reverted back to doing deferrals this year but didn’t say why.

My guess is they needed the backups because they would rather not yield protect.
In other words, last year they tried yield protecting and rejected applicants they didn’t think were realllly considering them, and then they realized that there are, in fact, many students who would have elected to accept UVa in-state tuition than go to Michigan or NYU or Chicago…if they had been given the option.
So this year they are figuring why not just admit the top of the top of whoever applies and then defer a whole bunch of applicants as backups and see if that gets us an even stronger incoming class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of deferrals at targets including Florida, Wisconsin etc for high stat kids. Seeing it with my own child, their friends and on these message boards.

Do we think this is going to lead to a ton of waitlist activity and long drawn out decision process?

Increased deferrals since at least 2023.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of deferrals at targets including Florida, Wisconsin etc for high stat kids. Seeing it with my own child, their friends and on these message boards.

Do we think this is going to lead to a ton of waitlist activity and long drawn out decision process?

Anyone thinking ED1/ED2 was a better option in retrospect?

Yes. Big time.

[Anonymous]

I think it is a "nice" way for these universities to tell students that they are absolutely great candidates for the school, but that there are just too many other applicants for them to accept all those qualified. The usual "letting them down easy"...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of deferrals at targets including Florida, Wisconsin etc for high stat kids. Seeing it with my own child, their friends and on these message boards.

Do we think this is going to lead to a ton of waitlist activity and long drawn out decision process?

Anyone thinking ED1/ED2 was a better option in retrospect?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any reason why schools defer instead of rejecting? UVA tried not doing the deferral and then reverted back to doing deferrals this year but didn’t say why.

I think some schools (Texas is one) didn't even read most of the apps by the EA release date. So they deferred everyone.

[Anonymous]

ED is definitely a good option if you know for sure. But not all schools offer this and some kids aren’t ready to commit like that. But I’m jealous of the ones I know who did ED. It just wasn’t in the cards for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any reason why schools defer instead of rejecting? UVA tried not doing the deferral and then reverted back to doing deferrals this year but didn’t say why.

My guess is they needed the backups because they would rather not yield protect.
In other words, last year they tried yield protecting and rejected applicants they didn’t think were realllly considering them, and then they realized that there are, in fact, many students who would have elected to accept UVa in-state tuition than go to Michigan or NYU or Chicago…if they had been given the option.
So this year they are figuring why not just admit the top of the top of whoever applies and then defer a whole bunch of applicants as backups and see if that gets us an even stronger incoming class?

Umm no. They did not yield protect. I know many kids that got into UVA and chose an Ivy or Duke or Hopkins or Pomona, etc. plenty of very high stat kids were accepted, some accepted, some did not. But they don’t yield protect at UVA.

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Anonymous wrote:ED is definitely a good option if you know for sure. But not all schools offer this and some kids aren’t ready to commit like that. But I’m jealous of the ones I know who did ED. It just wasn’t in the cards for us.

+1 Indecisive kid who wants to know all the options, so ED off the table.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:ED is definitely a good option if you know for sure. But not all schools offer this and some kids aren’t ready to commit like that. But I’m jealous of the ones I know who did ED. It just wasn’t in the cards for us.

+1 Indecisive kid who wants to know all the options, so ED off the table.

That's what RD is for - and the uncertainty that comes with it for the top schools that thousands of high stats kids are applying to.