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- Sep 9, 2015
It seems at a place like Harvard, the reasons students give for deferring would more likely to be that they are training for some important classical piano competition, trying to break the record for a solo flight around the world, spending a year in Haiti drilling for clean water, or were invited to work on a scientific study, etc. In other word, something impressive that has to do with achievement. Covid probably has hit hard and surely there are kids with mental health issues that need sorting, but two deferments and nothing to show for them but SRS... Oh wait, there's the tik-toks, the tie-dye dress auction and the drag show fundraiser!Deferring admission twice for a non-legacy student has to be a first for Harvard. I know Jazz is a "celebrity", but he's D list at best. I'd be pretty irritated if I were "Harvard material" and busted ass for four years just to get waitlisted while some middling student with a rotting crotch got to defer until he was ready. The kind of student who even considers applying to Harvard is driven and competitive, and I can't imagine any of them looking kindly on someone who defers for any reason short of getting run over by a bus and being physically unable to get to school, and EVEN THEN, just do some PT and find someone to wheel you into Freshman Seminar in your body cast.
I know the COVID thing has made it tricky for colleges, so perhaps one deferral will be forgiven. Who knows, maybe he'll be super popular as the lone 21 year old in the freshman dorms.