It’s normal and natural to feel anxiety over the outcome after submitting your college applications. Acceptance is a possibility, but so is rejection, and then there’s the possibility of deferral (if you have applied to meet the early decision or action deadlines).
What’s A Deferral?
Springer, Reider, and Johnson’s Admissions Matters describes a deferral as: “a decision by a college to delay a final response to an early action or early decision application until the regular decision cycle.”
Is a deferral bad news? Well, getting deferred is not a bad omen, if that’s what you’re wondering. Who gets deferred is not necessarily a sign of your strength as an applicant. It does not mean that you will not accepted to an university. What is does mean is that your application will now be evaluated amongst the pool of fresh new applications that come in during the regular decision application cycle….
