Hey everyone, Just wanted to start a discussion board for everyone who applied to Stanford this year under the deferred enrollment program. Anyone have any idea of when interview decisions should be released? Good luck to all!

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Calling all Deferred Enrollment Applicants to Stanford (2021 cycle)

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Anyone got an invite today?

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nothing here

still waiting

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They are going to be sending out invites in small batches every single weekday from 19th April for 4 weeks.

So it can come right at the start, or right towards the end of May, or not at all.

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They are going to be sending out invites in small batches every single weekday from 19th April for 4 weeks.

So it can come right at the start, or right towards the end of May, or not at all.

How do you know that?

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You guys think they’ll also be sending us emails if we get dinged? Or just update our status at the end of May?

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21 Apr 2021, 10:34

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They do regular mba applications as well as deferred mba applications this round so I’m assuming none of us have heard back so far because they want to focus on the older applicants first and then move to deferred admissions

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Yeah, sure thing.
Compared to the round 3 applicants, we are less important to them because we all would pay for the program in at least 2 years if we got admitted.
But the round 3 would pay them right this year lol!

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Someone reported on clear admit live wire that they heard back for GSB Deferred for an interview earlier this week(!)

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Someone reported on clear admit live wire that they heard back for GSB Deferred for an interview earlier this week(!)

God! kudos for them!

I hope that we can also hear back from the school soon,
waiting is such torture that I've stayed up late at night (to 1:30 am..) since 4/19...

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yeah - wish they just did it on one day as opposed to keeping it hovering for over a month, but fingers crossed..

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Staying awake till 10:30am pacific time everyday to get no email is killing me

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FYI, I have also created a separate chat group for Stanford deferred enrollment. You can find it at the following link https://gmatclub.com/forum/mchat.php?room_id=50050324

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26 Apr 2021, 12:46

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Staying awake till 10:30am pacific time everyday to get no email is killing me

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If they send it, are they going to send it before 10:30 AM Pacific?

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I believe they send it at exactly 10:30 each day and started on the 19th

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I believe they send it at exactly 10:30 each day and started on the 19th

Got it ShaniM I don't know why Stanford sends the invites over a month and the applicants have to wait every day. They do the same for Full-time MBA admissions as well. It is a long wait unless you hear back earlier

All the best to you all.

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hey Nikhil or ShaniM do you know what date Stanford sends these invites until?

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Nah I’m not sure - we’re just hearing back at the same time as the regular R3 applicants so whenever the last day for them is

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26 Apr 2021, 22:09

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I believe they send it at exactly 10:30 each day and started on the 19th

All the best to you all.

But have there been instances where (many) people have received invites later on? To elaborate my question, are most invites sent in the first week and getting one later depends if someone rejects it or something? If that is the case, then this is a ding for me >.<

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Hello Everyone, my question is for Indian Admitted students: Since embassies are closed and with todays news of US consulates getting affected and 2 died, scope of them operating at normal pace seems to be rare, so are you people going to defer or what ?

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From the Full-time MBA admissions process, I see that many people have received the invites later as well. I don't think it will depend on earlier invitees rejecting invites or anything like that.

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It is all a bit up in the air it seems. This situation is not entirely different from what we had last year. So I guess people will consider deferring in the worst case.