UVA Regular Decision Friday, 3/18

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was deferred EA, and given the stats, we’re not super hopeful. She’s been accepted @VT Honors College so having that option is making her feel better about whatever the decision is Friday. Good luck to all!

Good luck. It looks like on average 5% of the students on the waitlist come off it. https://www.quora.com/What-are-my-chances-of-getting-off-the-waitlist-at-the-University-of-Virginia#:~:text=Not%20exceptionally%20high%2C%20but%20it,students%20admitted%20from%20the%20waitlist.

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No, not confusing. I meant to type "soft rejection". She was deferred SCEA at Princeton; accepted Georgia Tech EA; accepted Purdue EA; accepted UVA EA; deferred Harvard, Yale, Cornell. The deferrals automatically become waitlists. She didn't come off any waitlists.

This does not make sense. A deferral only happens in an ED/EA round. If your DD applied SCEA to Princeton, she could not also apply early to Harvard/Yale/Cornell, so could not be deferred from those schools. Also, deferrals do not automatically become waitlists. Some kids are deferred and then accepted or rejected at regular decision time.

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No, not confusing. I meant to type "soft rejection". She was deferred SCEA at Princeton; accepted Georgia Tech EA; accepted Purdue EA; accepted UVA EA; deferred Harvard, Yale, Cornell. The deferrals automatically become waitlists. She didn't come off any waitlists.

This does not make sense. A deferral only happens in an ED/EA round. If your DD applied SCEA to Princeton, she could not also apply early to Harvard/Yale/Cornell, so could not be deferred from those schools. Also, deferrals do not automatically become waitlists. Some kids are deferred and then accepted or rejected at regular decision time.

Right. She was waitlisted Harvard, Yale, Cornell. Neither she nor any of her friends got in on Facebook by Day.no RD acceptances at all. All rejections or waitlist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was deferred EA, and given the stats, we’re not super hopeful. She’s been accepted @VT Honors College so having that option is making her feel better about whatever the decision is Friday. Good luck to all!

Good luck. It looks like on average 5% of the students on the waitlist come off it. https://www.quora.com/What-are-my-chances-of-getting-off-the-waitlist-at-the-University-of-Virginia#:~:text=Not%20exceptionally%20high%2C%20but%20it,students%20admitted%20from%20the%20waitlist.

Deferred, not waitlisted and yes, am aware of the stats for both.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was deferred EA, and given the stats, we’re not super hopeful. She’s been accepted @VT Honors College so having that option is making her feel better about whatever the decision is Friday. Good luck to all!

Good luck. It looks like on average 5% of the students on the waitlist come off it. https://www.quora.com/What-are-my-chances-of-getting-off-the-waitlist-at-the-University-of-Virginia#:~:text=Not%20exceptionally%20high%2C%20but%20it,students%20admitted%20from%20the%20waitlist.

Deferred, not waitlisted and yes, am aware of the stats for both.

What is your problem? Who made you forum police??

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Anonymous wrote:The acceptance rate for deferred students is even lower - like 2% last year.

This seems like a weakness on the decision-makers’ side. Or, why would it be so low when it was UVA who said, hang in there, you still have a shot?

I asked that question on the last IG call. Why defer 7,000 from EA only to accept ~100? Even if half don't accept EA, that's still a ridiculously low percentage. Didn't really understand the response.

All colleges and universities do it. It's called a "soft deferral". My kid got them from all of the Ivies he applied to. Just a random pull off the internet, here is UCLA last year: The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) offered 15,242 waitlist spaces for the class of 2026, but it only admitted 214 students. This put the UCLA waitlist acceptance rate at a historic low of 2%.Feb 11, 2023

You are confusing "Waitlist" and "Deferral of EA/ED to RD". There's no way your child can have multiple "EA/ED deferrals to RD" from Ivies because each student is only allowed to apply EA/ED to one Ivy. However, they CAN receive multiple RD Waitlists.

No, not confusing. I meant to type "soft rejection". She was deferred SCEA at Princeton; accepted Georgia Tech EA; accepted Purdue EA; accepted UVA EA; deferred Harvard, Yale, Cornell. The deferrals automatically become waitlists. She didn't come off any waitlists.

This is the only relevant "deferral" to this discussion. I'd venture that a SCEA deferral from Princeton is FAR less likely to turn into an acceptance by Ivy Day than a UVA deferral in ED/EA is to become an acceptance by RD in March.

It may feel o you like Princeton is a "soft rejection" and maybe they operate that way....but from communications from Dean J at UVA - I think they are more transparent and inform candidates via rejection if they are no longer being considered for an acceptance. Percentages are still difficult for anyone in the UVA RD round but I don't think it's any worse for someone who arrived at RD via deferral vs those who applied as RD from the start.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was deferred EA, and given the stats, we’re not super hopeful. She’s been accepted @VT Honors College so having that option is making her feel better about whatever the decision is Friday. Good luck to all!

Good luck. It looks like on average 5% of the students on the waitlist come off it. https://www.quora.com/What-are-my-chances-of-getting-off-the-waitlist-at-the-University-of-Virginia#:~:text=Not%20exceptionally%20high%2C%20but%20it,students%20admitted%20from%20the%20waitlist.

Nobody is on the Waitlist yet - the relevant discussion is people who are being considered in the RD round and arrived there via a deferral in the ED/EA rounds.

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Anonymous wrote:The acceptance rate for deferred students is even lower - like 2% last year.

This seems like a weakness on the decision-makers’ side. Or, why would it be so low when it was UVA who said, hang in there, you still have a shot?

I asked that question on the last IG call. Why defer 7,000 from EA only to accept ~100? Even if half don't accept EA, that's still a ridiculously low percentage. Didn't really understand the response.

All colleges and universities do it. It's called a "soft deferral". My kid got them from all of the Ivies he applied to. Just a random pull off the internet, here is UCLA last year: The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) offered 15,242 waitlist spaces for the class of 2026, but it only admitted 214 students. This put the UCLA waitlist acceptance rate at a historic low of 2%.Feb 11, 2023

You are confusing "Waitlist" and "Deferral of EA/ED to RD". There's no way your child can have multiple "EA/ED deferrals to RD" from Ivies because each student is only allowed to apply EA/ED to one Ivy. However, they CAN receive multiple RD Waitlists.

No, not confusing. I meant to type "soft rejection". She was deferred SCEA at Princeton; accepted Georgia Tech EA; accepted Purdue EA; accepted UVA EA; deferred Harvard, Yale, Cornell. The deferrals automatically become waitlists. She didn't come off any waitlists.

Deferrals are not automatically waitlisted. Plenty of kids who are deferred from ED/EA get outright rejections in the RD round. They are not all automatically moved to the waitlist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine was accepted reg decision last year! Good luck to all. Don’t let the negative noise get to ya!

Did they apply RD originally?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was deferred EA, and given the stats, we’re not super hopeful. She’s been accepted @VT Honors College so having that option is making her feel better about whatever the decision is Friday. Good luck to all!

Good luck. It looks like on average 5% of the students on the waitlist come off it. https://www.quora.com/What-are-my-chances-of-getting-off-the-waitlist-at-the-University-of-Virginia#:~:text=Not%20exceptionally%20high%2C%20but%20it,students%20admitted%20from%20the%20waitlist.

Deferred, not waitlisted and yes, am aware of the stats for both.

What is your problem? Who made you forum police??

Was just clarifying that she was deferred, not waitlisted, there is a difference, that’s all. Was not policing anything.

[Anonymous]

And can students in the College of Arts & Sciences minor in systems engineering, or no? What do you think? Too niche of a question? Anyone know??

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Anonymous wrote:My kid was deferred EA, and given the stats, we’re not super hopeful. She’s been accepted @VT Honors College so having that option is making her feel better about whatever the decision is Friday. Good luck to all!

Good luck. It looks like on average 5% of the students on the waitlist come off it. https://www.quora.com/What-are-my-chances-of-getting-off-the-waitlist-at-the-University-of-Virginia#:~:text=Not%20exceptionally%20high%2C%20but%20it,students%20admitted%20from%20the%20waitlist.

Deferred, not waitlisted and yes, am aware of the stats for both.

What is your problem? Who made you forum police??

Was just clarifying that she was deferred, not waitlisted, there is a difference, that’s all. Was not policing anything.

No one cares

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And can students in the College of Arts & Sciences minor in systems engineering, or no? What do you think? Too niche of a question? Anyone know??

I believe the answer is no but I’d call the School of Arts & Sciences to make sure

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Good luck everyone!

[Anonymous]

For students who are deferred, they're likely deferred for midterm grades, right? So if midterm grades show all As, do you think they'll get in?