Deferred? Here’s the skinny.

Decisions on our Early Notification applications went out on Friday, and we’re receiving questions on what it all means.  If you’ve been admitted, congratulations!  I’ll assume you don’t require much more explanation.  On the other end of the happiness spectrum, for the second year, we denied admission to some applicants and, when appropriate, informed the applicant that the missing piece is professional experience.  We always feel some regret in denying applicants, but we hope it will help applicants make informed decisions on where else they should apply.

That leaves those whose application was deferred to the spring round.  These applicants will have their credentials reviewed again in the context of the larger application pool.  Applicants who were deferred are invited to update us on changes to their status.  New grades or test scores definitely should be submitted.  An additional recommendation or a new résumé that sheds light on your recent activities can also be valuable.  The bottom line is that you’re welcome to update us, but please be sure that whatever you send is really an update.  If the same information is already in your file, there’s little to be gained from sending it a second time.

The deadline for PhD and Map Your Future applications is tomorrow, so the Admissions Office is making a quick shift of focus.  If you have further general questions about the deferrals, please include them as comments below.  If general themes emerge, I’ll address them in an additional blog post.

3 thoughts on “Deferred? Here’s the skinny.

  • December 21, 2011 at 10:37 pm
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    Thank you very much

  • December 20, 2011 at 8:38 am
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    Hi Prince — You won’t be able to access your original online application again, so any supplemental materials will need to be sent by email or traditional mail. Your recommender can attach a letter to a message addressed to fletcheradmissions@tufts.edu. Let me know if you or the recommender have any remaining questions. Thank you for the holiday wishes, and I wish the same for you!
    Jessica

  • December 19, 2011 at 10:13 pm
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    Thank you Ms. Daniels for providing us with constant updates and useful information. With regards to the application decisions that have been deffered to March, I noticed that this year’s suggestion is different from the one you posted in December 2010 and I am so happy to know that policies at Fletcher are very dynamic. Thank you for the opportunity to submit another letter of recommendation. How can we submit this new recommendation? Can we access the application page to register the recommenders as part of our old application or we will have to ask the recommenders to email their recommendation to the admission office? Wishing you a happy holidays and please don’t catch cold

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