For most schools, the deferral application is not actually reread or rescored a second time. The exception is if the regional admissions officer sees an update that might move the scoring on your application. They put your app into the general RD pool and use the score you got in EA/ED round.

What school?

My kid just unexpectedly got an acceptance after an EA deferral before RD decisions came out. So hard to know as each school seems to do things different.

Anonymous wrote:What happens if an accepted kid at your high school turns down offer before rd decisions are made? Does that spot maybe go to someone at the high school or does it just open a spot in general?

While your same school peers are an initial hurdle, I don’t think spots are exchanged on that micro level except maybe at some privates/feeder schools.

Anonymous wrote:From my kid’s experience, a defer off EA will be a waitlist.

Same.

Anonymous wrote:What happens if an accepted kid at your high school turns down offer before rd decisions are made? Does that spot maybe go to someone at the high school or does it just open a spot in general?

Almost certainly in general, unless both students are from Wyoming for which the geographical diversity factor might cause the second kid to get admitted.

Anonymous wrote:From my kid’s experience, a defer off EA will be a waitlist. Defer off ED is a more likely admit.

Most selective schools play games with the waitlist then accept few students

ED shows it was a first choice, more likely to yield RD.

What happens if an accepted kid at your high school turns down offer before rd decisions are made? Does that spot maybe go to someone at the high school or does it just open a spot in general?

From my kid’s experience, a defer off EA will be a waitlist. Defer off ED is a more likely admit.

Most selective schools play games with the waitlist then accept few students

It is widely believed that schools would pull full pay kids over finaid kids from waitlists unless institutional priorities come into play. As a family needing financial aid, we are expecting waitlist = reject.

Anonymous wrote:How do they measure these against RD decisions? If the entire RD pool is excellent, how do colleges decide who and how many to take from deferrals and Waitlists?

For unhooked kids, acceptance rates aren't much different between ED and RD. The only difference is the timing.

Anonymous wrote:How do they measure these against RD decisions? If the entire RD pool is excellent, how do colleges decide who and how many to take from deferrals and Waitlists?

School dependent.

For MIT deferrals, consider it as a soft reject.
For Georgetown or USC, consider it as if you didn't apply ED/EA. You just have one more RD school.

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Anonymous wrote:How do they measure these against RD decisions? If the entire RD pool is excellent, how do colleges decide who and how many to take from deferrals and Waitlists?

They consider you within the RD pool. It isn’t a separate consideration for deferrals.

This.
They reread the applications from the deferred pool and compare them with RD pool, picking the most desired candidates. FWIW, the acceptance rate from the deferred pool isn't great for competitive schools

Waitlists are different, once you're waitlisted you're essentially waiting for someone to decline their spot. As for the numbers, you can see all the data in each school's CDS.

Anonymous wrote:How do they measure these against RD decisions? If the entire RD pool is excellent, how do colleges decide who and how many to take from deferrals and Waitlists?

They consider you within the RD pool. It isn’t a separate consideration for deferrals.

How do they measure these against RD decisions? If the entire RD pool is excellent, how do colleges decide who and how many to take from deferrals and Waitlists?