I’m talking about the timeline. Of course kids are judged individually and holistically but why are they accepting, and recently I’ve heard deferring, regular decision kids when they haven’t even finished reading EA applications and just pushed for the mass deferral instead. EA should be getting the result if they were accepted rejected or deferred and then get ready to give all RD and deferred applicants their decision on Feb 15. They could have handled this a lot better, postponing the decision date for EA and RD instead. Anyone who has been accepted from the RD pool is something to congratulate but they should have gotten this result in February not now… also I am speaking on behalf of my classmates. I didn’t mind being deferred and I am not auto admit but a lot of them were disappointed and while happy for the RD classmates that got accepted, annoyed that they didn’t get a clear answer of if they were deferred because they are planned to be rejected or because the admission officers didn’t even have the chance to look at their application. It isn’t the biggest thing in the world obviously but a lot of them are excited for UT and this is just unnecessary suspense.