Dear Neurotic Parents of the Class of '12,
Get prepared for a mass freakout. Here are the early decision/action results for several Class of '11 applicants mentioned in an earlier post. As you will note, many ended up with deferrals, a frustrating limbo which means they must wait until April to contract senioritis. And, even worse, they must keep their fictious Facebook names for a few more months – names like like Annie Goolash, Lucas Schtick and Drew Grit.
This is probably not a statistically-significant group. It is just a random selection of nice kids (enrolled in both private and public schools, mostly from CA, two from NY, one from Ohio). Several of the cases below were absolute shockers – deferrals for kids who have written operas and discovered new planets.
BU – deferred
Bowdoin1 – accepted
Bowdoin2 – deferred
Brown – deferred
Colorado College – accepted
Duke – accepted
Georgetown – deferred
Kenyon – accepted
Michigan – accepted
Northwestern – rejected
NYU – accepted
Penn (legacy) – accepted
Skidmore – accepted
Stanford1 (legacy) – deferred
Stanford2 (legacy) – deferred
Syracuse (Newhouse) – accepted
Vanderbilt – rejected
Yale (legacy) – deferred
WashU1 – rejected
WashU2 – accepted
Out of twenty, that's ten accepted, three rejected, and seven sentenced to Limbo. Not really the "bloodbath" that many have mentioned, but neither is it the great relief/edge up that lots of kids envision. The moral for the Class of '12? 1) Rethink "Early"; 2) Go to ancestry.com and discover you have Inuit relatives; 3) Xanax.
you can add these:
Carleton (ED): rejected
Bard (early action): accepted.
whew!