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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

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? [/quote]

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. [/quote]

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