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+title: If You Got Deferred
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+# What to Do If You Got Deferred
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+- **Don't panic.** These admission results are preliminary and often appear random. Highly qualified applicants, including national and international competition winners, frequently get deferred before eventual acceptance.
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+- **Submit supplementary materials when appropriate.** Many selective colleges including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Duke, and Caltech accept additional letters of recommendation. Strong candidates include:
+ - Non-teacher/counselor mentors (research project supervisors, employers, community leaders)
+ - Award-winning research papers or writing samples
+ - Reports on recent significant achievements
+ - Extensions of items already listed in your application
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