Some colleges allow students to defer their admission for up to one semester or one year upon their offer of acceptance. That is, students that are unable to attend college for the semester they initially applied for will be able to hold their acceptance, and instead, register for classes at a later date as allowed by the college.
Deferring your admission might also require that you first pay your Enrollment/Commitment Deposit, so before you decide to defer your admission at the college you applied and got accepted to, please visit your college's website to learn more about their deferring requirements.
Some colleges require that students fill out a form or email the admissions office to confirm their deferment at the college they were accepted to.
You can check your school's website to confirm what the deferment process is, and up to how long your admission is valid at the school of your choice.
The deadline to defer admission into the college you will later attend depends entirely on the school itself and the deadlines that they set on their school calendar.
You can check the calendar on the website, or, if this deadline isn't explicitly stated, you can email the admissions office to confirm when you are able to defer and what the deadline to confirm your deferment is.
Students who have been accepted into a CUNY school and have deferred their admission have up to one year before their application is no longer valid. Otherwise, the student will have to re-apply for admission just as they did when they were given an offer of acceptance (and pay the same fees that they may have paid, or had waived in their favor).
Therefore, students who have deferred in the past must reactivate their application before the general two-semester deadline.
SUNY and Private schools each have their unique way of letting students defer admission.
If you need to know how your specific schools carries out the deferment process, please search for it on your school's website or email their admissions department. You can also do this to ask about their reactivation process.
If you never deferred your admission into the college you applied for in the Spring 2024 semester, you need to reactivate your application.
In this process you must contact the college campus regarding your admission status, when you applied, and request that the same application is re-used and reactivated to be reconsidered for admission into the Spring (or a later, valid semester instead).
If you correctly deferred your admission into the college you applied for, you will be contacted by the campus to reactivate your application.
If you do not hear back from someone by December, you should contact the campus themselves with proof of your deferment (if any), and context about the issue. This way they can reactivate your application themselves and you can move further in the process.