Ugh! Hopefully, you hear back soon!! Totally understand deferring, honestly worth doing... not sure about your situation, but he straight up told me doing well in one of the graduate courses they recommend was needed in order to take a look at my application (which I knew beforehand, under the FAQ page on the website, <3.0 GPA's they recommend taking graduate-level coursework first).
The interview went as expected, we discussed my transcript for about 10 minutes and he talked about the program. Nice guy for sure, but practical and matter-of-fact which I appreciate! Now waiting for the grad school's decision š¤