<p>How do they evaluate re-applicants? Will the criteria be more rigorous than ordinary applicants? Thanks.</p>
<p>I don't think you can reapply? Although i'm not sure, but i know they stopped taking transfer students.</p>
<p>Hi, Ravesky</p>
<p>I'm applying for freshman since last year I was REJECTED...</p>
<p>Are you taking a gap year this year?
If you are applying with basically the same set of scores and grades, expect the same result as the first time around.
The crucial question will be: what is different this time?</p>
<p>siliconvalleymom:</p>
<p>Yes - I am taking a gap year. I did volunteer work, read some books and will retake the SAT.</p>
<p>I feel like if you are taking a year off and want to apply again with a better chance at getting in this time around then you need to do something a little more substantial with your year than just some volunteer work and retake the SAT. Do something that will make you stick out amongst the thousands and thousands of applications that they will be getting. No offense, but you didn't get in the first time and your application wouldn't be very much different than the first time around if you add some volunteer work and higher SAT scores. You have the time to do something really cool before the application deadline to spice up your application and I think that if you are serious about getting in this time around that you should take the opportunity to do something you always wanted to do but couldn't because you were in school. Do an internship, travel...I don't really know what kind of things you could do since I don't know much about your interests/ goals and stuff like that but what I'm trying to say is that if you really want the results to be different this time around then you should do something drastically different.</p>
<p>^^ no offence, but you need some commas.</p>
<p>Well I honestly don't take writing on here to be too formal so I don't really care about commas and stuff since I have other things that I need to be taking seriously so thank you anyways but I really don't care</p>
<p>^lol</p>
<p>What Angie said is right on the money.</p>
<p>It's probably more difficult to get accepted as a re-applicant because there are additional questions adcoms must answer. For instance, why did we reject this individual before, and why should we not reject this individual now? A re-applicant's case for acceptance will probably have to be more compelling than an applicant who wasn't rejected before.</p>