<p>My son has applied to a competitive school.
If he were accepted, would the school frown upon asking for a year defferal to do a 13th HS year? Is that something he should have mentioned on his application? I was adviced against it. Can the school take away the admission if they were to become upset by the request?</p>
<p>Taking a year off after acceptance but before matriculation is commonly called a gap year. Most top schools are fine with it. However, normally the year is used for independent travel, research, or volunteer work, to give the student maturity and new experiences. Not sure what the point of a 13th HS year would be, and how adcoms would view it.</p>
<p>They won’t care. Deferred admissions are requested after being accepted, not before.</p>
<p>That said, why would he want to do another year of high school?</p>
<p>Forgot to mention he has applied ED. Don’t know if that makes a difference.
Mom & dad would prefer he did a 13th yr of HS to give him a bit more time to mature.
Thank you for your responses.</p>
<p>Friends of ours, ds, needed some time for maturing too…in the end they had him attend a community college and live at home…don’t know if they deferred other admissions…but thats how they handled it.</p>
<p>They wouldn’t frown on it. It just opens another slot and for the college, they know your son, a good catch, has a slot the following year. My alma mater admitted too many last year and actively pursued all of its acceptees who even inquired of taking a deferral. They needed the extra few slots and urged about a dozen admits to accept a year’s deferral. Funny, eh?</p>
<p>But I don’t think you can go to CC during a deferral year. That would then make you a transfer student.</p>