<p>Can one take a "gap semester" after high school and apply for Spring 2015 admission? If that's a thing, what schools do it? </p>
<p>It would surprise you how many people do that. In fact, I wish I did before I started college. Check with the college to see if you can apply for Spring admission. A good way to tell is by downloading an application and seeing if you can check of “Spring 2015” when it asks for your expected enrollment date. I imagine there are a few private colleges out there who won’t allow it, but I’m pretty sure most if not all public universities permit spring enrollment. </p>
<p>I know that at many colleges, if you are accepted for fall admission you can sometimes request to defer until spring semester. But you still have to follow all the application deadlines for fall admission… I don’t know of any schools (other than rolling admissions schools) where you can apply later specifically for spring… but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. </p>
<p>If the application allowed you to apply for Spring 2015, would it have a different application deadline from Fall 2014?</p>
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<p>It depends on the school. My guess is that most schools that will allow a student to start in the spring require that you apply by the normal fall admission deadline. In other words, that boat has sailed for spring 2015 for most schools.</p>
<p>If you’re a high school senior now, did you apply to any colleges? Any acceptances?</p>
<p>A quick Google search on the CSU system, for example, turned up the fact that the CSU system doesn’t even begin accepting applications for Winter Quarter 2015 until June 1 and the Spring 2015 semester/quarter until Aug. 1. So obviously you have a tremendous number of options depending on where you want to go. Most public schools will have an admissions process for Winter 2015 - it’s smaller and/or elite schools that probably don’t accept midyear students.</p>
<p>What CSU does sounds like exactly what I’m looking for, but what other schools do this? </p>
<p>Most publics do - but you’ll have to be more specific or do the search yourself.</p>