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What to Do When You’re Deferred from Your Top Choice School

Learn how to demonstrate that you’re still interested in attending your early app school and convince admissions officers that they missed a crucial part of your admissions profile.

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Noelle Compton
Dec 14, 2024
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Original article on our blog by Alex.

Getting deferred from an early reach school can be heartbreaking. The school is oftentimes your dream school, which puts you in a tough admissions limbo. Maybe you feel like you reached too high, but remember that you created a college list for exactly this reason. As long you were realistic with your application str…

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