"No," Tony said, "but she wasn't accepted, either."
"Can't you just give me a straight answer?" Li Wei asked, exasperated. "Did she get in or not?"
"Fack, I'm not an admissions officer," Tony swore. "I'm just a head football coach. How am I supposed to know all that complicated crap? I can only give you the gist of it."
Li Wei began to understand as Tony explained. College applications in the United States of America have an early admissions stage that includes something between acceptance and rejection. It's for when the school finds an applicant competitive, but not quite strong enough to warrant a definite acceptance during the early round. Usually, they'll defer the application and review it again in the spring.
"Miss Anna is currently in that deferred stage," Tony said, hesitating slightly. "But since you called me about it, I had to do something to help. Otherwise, if you got an offer and your girlfriend didn't, you'd definitely blame me."
