Are Form 8854 Deferred 2023-2024

Hi, this is Stacy Hernandez with the best.you college admissions consulting, the best college for the best seal. I'm getting lots of questions about getting deferred through early action and early decision. The big question I'm getting is what can I do now that I've been deferred. So, if you are someone who applied early decision or early action to a school and has been deferred, or you have been deferred, here are some pointers and some things to be thinking about for the next step in your admissions process. So, you already know that you've been deferred and what that really means is that your application has been moved over to the Regular Decision pool. So, congratulations on staying in the process and not being denied admission. You are still in the admissions pool. One of the things that students automatically start asking me is, okay, should I get more letters of recommendation? What should I be doing? The number one thing is colleges don't need extra materials. They're not necessarily looking for extra letters of recommendation, extra paperwork, extra pieces of the application per se, unless the college is really specifically asking for that. I would encourage you to avoid letters of recommendation that just add more clutter and more stuff that the admissions counselor has to read. Remember, in the Regular Decision pool, it's a larger applicant pool. That means more applications to read in a very few months. Most college admissions counselors start reading applications anywhere around Christmas time and they'll go until usually the first week in March if they're doing a full Regular Decision process. Some try to release decisions along the way throughout January through March, but many schools will just continuously read applications really January to the beginning of March. So, it's a small amount...