<p>Is it really fair for a student to ask for a gap year after being taken off a wait list? I would think with hundreds of eager and/or disappointed kids on a wait list, to grant a kid a gap year after taking them off the wait list is not really what's the wait list is for. Thoughts? </p>
<p>Is the hierarchy of being accepted ED, RD, and the waitlist to be continued past admissions? Shouldn’t every student have the same right to ask for a gap year? Other students wanted to be accepted ED too, but the ED student can ask for a gap year, right?</p>
<p>I don’t think there is anything wrong with a gap year request.</p>
<p>I really don’t know. I was just curious how this worked after hearing a couple of stories. Just instinctively it seemed like coming off a wait list with many others literally “waiting” is a bit different. </p>
<p>^ You’d still attend and have a full 4-year experience -just a year later. Your admission offer isn’t going to waste. Don’t see any unfairness. :)</p>
<p>Well, but isn’t the point of the waitlist so that the college can fill their freshman class? For instance, if a ED or RD student requested a gap year, then wouldn’t Admissions say, “oh, well here’s another slot we have open for 2014/2015,” and then go to the wait list for someone to fill it?</p>
<p>So if a waitlisted student requests a gap year, presumably they’d then have to go back to the wait list for yet another body to fill that slot, right?</p>
<p>I don’t really know - just thinking it through and guessing here. For practical purposes, perhaps the thing to do in this situation would be to simply ask. Once they’ve offered you admission, I doubt they’d revoke it if you asked whether it would be possible to take a gap year. I think the worst they’d say is, “no, you’d have to attend in the fall if you accept our offer.” Just my thoughts!</p>
<p>If an admitted student in any round defers, they’re added to next year’s list, aren’t they? So if a college wants to enroll 5,000 freshmen this year but 5 defer until next year, the college can pick 5 more off this year’s waitlist and next year look for 4,995 freshmen. I think it only helps this year’s waitlisted students if a student who’s accepted from it defers for a year.</p>
<p>Could you call & ask? Just don’t say that you are on the WL…Just a hypothetical. Is that a silly idea?</p>
<p>I don’t see any difference between a WL admitted and RD admitted student asking for deferral. Why would it be different?</p>