<p>I was admitted to Ohio State University for the Fall semester, 2013 with a $15,000 scholarship a year (National Buckeye and Provost). Recently, I started considering taking a Gap year to be an Au pair in New Zealand. I talked to admissions about deferring my admission and they said the only way I can use my scholarship is to use it as an incoming freshman during the fall semester and the school will not allow me to defer my admission past the summer semester, 2014. If I take the gap year, what are my chances of receiving the scholarships again if I reapply next fall?</p>
<p>That’s impossible to say. Whether or not you’re offered a scholarship again next year will have everything to do with decisions made next year, the applicant pool, whether or not someone at OSU is willing to give you a “second chance” even though you turned it down the first time, etc. No one here can tell you what your chances are.</p>
<p>If spending a year in New Zealand is very important to you and a big priority (and something you would regret not doing), I would recommend just doing it. How dead set are you on OSU? Is there something special about it that makes it worth all that OOS tuition? (15k in scholarship money isn’t very much when you consider that the cost for OOS students is close to 40k.) There are a lot of schools out there just like it. If you’re good enough to get a scholarship from OSU, then I assume that you’re good enough to get a scholarship somewhere else.</p>