As the deadline approaches I wonder something...

Applying to College
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<p>I really do not feel like applying to a college right now in my senior year. It is not because I will not get in. I just do not feel like going to college/university next year even if I am accepted. I have no clue what I want to do. I feel I should really use a year to figure out what I care to do with my life and apply when I have decided what I want to do in life. I do not feel that me applying and rushing into a school is right at the moment. I think it is important to go to school, but in all seriousness I feel a year to relax and explore the world and figure out what I want in life for myself is the better option.</p>

<p>Question(s): If I apply a year after I graduate(this year) will colleges/universities see this as a bad thing? My grades and ACT are still relevant, are they not?</p>

<p>I seriously feel like telling this to my parents but I do not know how they might see my idea.</p>

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<p>How colleges see this - it depends on how your other credentials come out. I know of a girl who took a year off to just relax and chill in her hometown, and she was accepted to Yale.</p>

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<p>Basically every college allows students to defer their admissions for a year for exactly this reason. I would suggest you apply now while your teachers still can write you great recs and your school counselors still know how amazing you are...then when you GET IN to wherever you'd like to go, you can defer your admission for a year and do what you want with next year while still keeping a place in the college of your choice.</p>

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<p>^werd</p>

<p>do it now; take a year off if you still want to, but do so after you get in somewhere</p>

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<p>agree with ^. Apply now but go later is definitely the best advice</p>