Colleges Defer More Student Admissions

Colleges deferring more students

By Gary Stern, USA Today

They are neither accepted nor rejected. They are the deferred. With growing
numbers of seniors applying for “early action” from colleges — an
abbreviated application process in the fall that promises a decision by January
— more and more applicants are being deferred. It is a mysterious state,
unfamiliar to many families going through the process for the first time, that
leaves applicants with several basic questions. “The number of deferrals
keeps increasing and the message to the kids is so unclear,” said
Elizabeth Jensen, a longtime guidance counselor at Ardsley High School in
Ardsley, N.Y. “You’re really being thrown back into the regular applicant
pool, and there isn’t much you can do.