Acceptances are given out on December 1st and then it becomes a rolling admissions policy. However, there are some applicants that received a deferral of acceptance to Case. But the vast majority of applicants are waiting for December 1st.
basically the people applied for last year's cycle... they were probly waitlisted... and this cycle, they were already told that they are accepted to case western. so yes. deferral of acceptance... but they probably weren't sure if they were going to be accepted or not.