Anyone else getting lots of deferrals?

[Anonymous]

Yes, seeing a similar pattern. DC with high stats (1580 SAT, 4.43 GPA, and lots of ECs)

Accepted: 4
Deferred: 6
Rejection: 2

Surprisingly, was deferred from in-state college and rejected from out-of-state, which was supposed to be Target as per the discussions with the CC.

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PP. sorry for typos. On my phone

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Accepted: 4

Your kid is not in the same situation as the OP's. What are you complaining about?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, high stats and Deferred by both targets(yield protection) and reaches

If a school is a target, I would think your kid's stats are no higher than the 75th percentile for the school. So why would yield protection come into play?

I am referring to schools that ranks 40-50 like northeastern and case western for very high stats kids with SAT 1550+, most rigorous with 10+ AP

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Neither of these are a safety because they are known to yield protect. I believe Case is also need aware. In any case, for very high stat students, you would need to ED to these schools. There are plenty of schools that are similarly ranked that do not yield protect which would make much better choices as lsafeties.

These are DC’s targets, not safeties. But we don’t want to do ED to these.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, high stats and Deferred by both targets(yield protection) and reaches

If a school is a target, I would think your kid's stats are no higher than the 75th percentile for the school. So why would yield protection come into play?

I am referring to schools that ranks 40-50 like northeastern and case western for very high stats kids with SAT 1550+, most rigorous with 10+ AP

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Neither of these are a safety because they are known to yield protect. I believe Case is also need aware. In any case, for very high stat students, you would need to ED to these schools. There are plenty of schools that are similarly ranked that do not yield protect which would make much better choices as lsafeties.

No one said CWRU or NEU were safeties but naively thought odds were good base on stats. Lesson learned. Not really interested in either of these schools now because of the games they play.

Parents of younger kids, learn from us 😃

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, high stats and Deferred by both targets(yield protection) and reaches

If a school is a target, I would think your kid's stats are no higher than the 75th percentile for the school. So why would yield protection come into play?

I am referring to schools that ranks 40-50 like northeastern and case western for very high stats kids with SAT 1550+, most rigorous with 10+ AP

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Neither of these are a safety because they are known to yield protect. I believe Case is also need aware. In any case, for very high stat students, you would need to ED to these schools. There are plenty of schools that are similarly ranked that do not yield protect which would make much better choices as lsafeties.

These are DC’s targets, not safeties. But we don’t want to do ED to these.

That’s fine, but that takes them out of the target category.

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Accepted: 4

Your kid is not in the same situation as the OP's. What are you complaining about?

It is not a Complaint, sharing the stats with others and for the parents, who has first time experiences with college admissions.

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all deferrals (7EA mix of solid target and 2 low reaches) and one "let's look at mid-year grades" from what she thought we totally a safety. 2 Rejections from super high reaches.

It sounds like you got bad advice when you developed your list of schools. Safety schools aren't asking for mid-year grades - many are offering honors college, and sharing research opportunities and study abroad options to encourage high stat students to attend.

NP. We received advice constructing my DC’s college list from the school counselor at our “Big3” private school. Rejected at 2 likely schools (safeties), one target, 1 reach. Deferred from 2 likely schools and 5 target schools. I think the counselor was giving good advice based on knowledge in hand and was blindsided by this year’s admission results. They are not following the patterns in scoir AT ALL.

For the price you pay, your Big 3 counselor should have done a better job. I had no idea what I was doing and played college counselor. My kid is in at all the places I calculated they would get into. Kid wanted to apply for reach schools and so it was no surprise to get deferrals to reaches.

My kid doesn’t have an Ivy resume yet I thought one particular Ivy might be worth a try so applied to the one. Assuming it will be a deferral or rejection.

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Anonymous wrote:DS has weird stats: solid test scores (1540 SAT), crappy GPA (3.0), middling extracurriculars (1 state level science honor, 2 sports, a few clubs, 3 leadership positions)

He is applying up and down the rankings because his stats don't match up anywhere.

He was deferred from Reed College on ED1. That was always going to be a "no" because they are test blind and his GPA sucks, but he insisted so I let him.

He has been accepted with some merit aid at New College of Florida, Knox College, Kalamazoo College, Augustana College, and Monmouth College.

We are waiting on Colorado College (ED2), Macalester College, Oberlin College, Bard College, Rhodes College, Whitman College, Unviersity of Puget Sound, and Lewis and Clark College.

Congrats! You did this right!

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Anonymous wrote:Last year mine got deferrals from all 3 Ivies he applied to, full ride from state flagship honors program with CS major, full pay from top LAC, half tuition scholarship from a non-ivy top 10. In hindsight, its great he didn't get into Ivies as full pay sticker price would've seriously weakened our finances.

Need based aid?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, high stats and Deferred by both targets(yield protection) and reaches

If a school is a target, I would think your kid's stats are no higher than the 75th percentile for the school. So why would yield protection come into play?

I am referring to schools that ranks 40-50 like northeastern and case western for very high stats kids with SAT 1550+, most rigorous with 10+ AP

Also same

Neither of these are a safety because they are known to yield protect. I believe Case is also need aware. In any case, for very high stat students, you would need to ED to these schools. There are plenty of schools that are similarly ranked that do not yield protect which would make much better choices as lsafeties.

These are DC’s targets, not safeties. But we don’t want to do ED to these.

That’s fine, but that takes them out of the target category.

So what are the targets for high stat kids, they are either reaches or safeties. Even those ranked 40 -50 cannot be targets
They either yield protect or are OOS public that are as hard to get in as top 15

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Anonymous wrote:1. Four acceptances, including to two top engineering schools. The two others were safeties
2. One deferral
3. One rejection
4. One odd deferral (it said no for freshman year but guaranteed admission sophomore year if maintain a B average in first year at another school). Had never heard of this before.

I know someone who also had the scenario of #4. It was called a "guaranteed transfer"

What is the rational for this sort of decision?

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Anonymous wrote:DS has weird stats: solid test scores (1540 SAT), crappy GPA (3.0), middling extracurriculars (1 state level science honor, 2 sports, a few clubs, 3 leadership positions)

He is applying up and down the rankings because his stats don't match up anywhere.

He was deferred from Reed College on ED1. That was always going to be a "no" because they are test blind and his GPA sucks, but he insisted so I let him.

He has been accepted with some merit aid at New College of Florida, Knox College, Kalamazoo College, Augustana College, and Monmouth College.

We are waiting on Colorado College (ED2), Macalester College, Oberlin College, Bard College, Rhodes College, Whitman College, Unviersity of Puget Sound, and Lewis and Clark College.

Congrats! You did this right!

I would love to hear the results you get. Please share when you hear back. Do you mind sharing the level of rigor? Mostly honors/APs?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, high stats and Deferred by both targets(yield protection) and reaches

If a school is a target, I would think your kid's stats are no higher than the 75th percentile for the school. So why would yield protection come into play?

I am referring to schools that ranks 40-50 like northeastern and case western for very high stats kids with SAT 1550+, most rigorous with 10+ AP

Also same

Neither of these are a safety because they are known to yield protect. I believe Case is also need aware. In any case, for very high stat students, you would need to ED to these schools. There are plenty of schools that are similarly ranked that do not yield protect which would make much better choices as lsafeties.

Actually most schools in the T100 do not yield protect, but NE, Tulane, and Case are known to.


These are DC’s targets, not safeties. But we don’t want to do ED to these.

That’s fine, but that takes them out of the target category.

So what are the targets for high stat kids, they are either reaches or safeties. Even those ranked 40 -50 cannot be targets
They either yield protect or are OOS public that are as hard to get in as top 15

Most schools on the T100 do not yield protect, but Tulane, Case, and NE are notorious for this. I am surprised no one advised you of this.

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My kid had:
1 acceptance in state, good public
2 deferrals, one private, one ivy public
2 rejects, highly regarded public

The rejected schools are less "prestigious" than the deferred schools. Go figure.

Waiting for 4 more. I was so relieved at the in state. And this is a really high stat student.

What is an “ivy public”? That is not a thing. Do you mean UMichigan/UNC/Cal or something similar?

Yeah, this makes no sense. Did they mean top public?