I have two cousins who were eligible........one joined a seminary.......a more unlikely priest you could not meet! Didn't stay the course and didn't become a man of the cloth! The other was at an Ivy league college.....think he deferred somehow? My "college" cousins wife's brother flew Hueys.......wonder what he made of all that? Not making a judgement by the way.....but I suspect there will have been a fair few creative "deferments"? Just saying.