<p>I'm getting around to being a senior, and for certain reasons will not immediately be able to attend college after I graduate (and cannot defer as well).</p>
<p>That said, </p>
<p>My school's college counselor has stated that it would be a good idea for me to apply first to some public schools (UC Berkeley, etc.) on the assumption that if I get ACCEPTED, then any time I apply again, I will also be ACCEPTED (based on my acceptance the first time around).</p>
<p>Is this true? Will this also work for Ivy Leagues and other private colleges?</p>
<p>What you can do instead is apply to those schools, and if you get accepted take a gap year. Do some research on gap years, I’m sure you will love the results. I would explain them here, but I don’t feel like I would do it justice (mainly because my brain is almost like dead and its 3am where I live).</p>
<p>I have never heard anything like what you say your college counselor told you.</p>
<p>I’d say this is a question for the admissions office at several colleges and universities, and not for a bunch of strangers on the internet.</p>
<p>But I’ll also say, my bet is that either your college counselor is profoundly mistaken, or you profoundly misunderstood what he or she said. I cannot see any reason why having been admitted in 2013 should guarantee you a place in the class that enters several years from now. What if that’s a much stronger applicant pool, in which they wouldn’t have wanted to take you? What if, God forbid, you suffer a head injury or become a meth addict? Should they still be bound by an offer of admission made years before?</p>
<p>Are you sure you couldn’t simply get admitted and then have your enrollment deferred? That seems much more certain than assuming that if they admit you once, they’ll admit you again later.</p>
<p>I’m trying to understand your situation. Why can’t you defer? Are you planning to take more than 1 year off before reapplying?</p>
<p>x-posted w/Sikorsky; agree that something doesn’t sound right here, either your GC is mistaken or you heard incorrectly??</p>
<p>I’m guessing you are a CA resident. As you say, the UC schools do not offer a deferral option. I have no idea whether they’re more likely to accept you again if you follow the GC’s plan. </p>
<p>But I do have a warning. Many students who take a year off from college are tempted to take a class or two at their local CC just to keep their hands in it. Seems harmless. But be aware that for the UC schools if you take any classes at a CC (or anywhere else) anytime other than the summer immediately following HS graduation you will be considered a transfer student and not a frosh applicant. Meaning that you will have to be a college junior before you are again eligible to apply for UC admission.</p>