Examples of Acceptance after being Rejected and taking a gap year

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Reapplying After Being Waitlisted

Hi everyone, I’m an international student, I applied last year to 10 colleges all of them reach schools as I was planning to take a gap year anyway unless I was going to a top school. I was rejected from Harvard, Stanford, Brown, Cornell, and Columbia but waitlisted at Yale, UPenn, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, and UMich. I am considering applying to Yale SCEA this cycle as its my dream school and I never even expected to be waitlisted, I haven’t done a lot in my gap year but my test scores did improve a bit, I added a few decent ECs, and I feel like the essays I applied with last time were horrible and that I can do much better. I’ve never heard of anyone reapplying to Yale and so I was wondering if I have any realistic chance.

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