<p>“At the end, I mentioned that I had skipped two grades and as a result had problems continuing my hobby (creative writing), because I was too stressed out with the onset of puberty and such.”</p>
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<p>Welcome to the club? Everyone is going through puberty…how does that affect your writing? Please enlighten me.</p>
<p>And creative writing you don’t need actual “experience”- I mean, you can experience things through books, movies, art, stories- that’s why it’s called CREATIVE writing, not your autobiography. I know that having cool experiences help, but it’s not necessary at all- especially in high school, where not everyone has gone to other countries or traveled or anything.</p>
<p>I think saying that you needed to mature and ready yourself for college was probably the most valid point here. But it sounded like you have too many excuses for your failure to write. </p>
<p>If you had very, VERY clear plans- I want to go to NY and intern for the New York times for a year. Or I’m volunteering in New Orleans for the year. Or I’m trying to start my own business/publication for a year. Something productive. Then you would have sounded impressive. Then taking a gap year would have sounded like a really good thing since you sound self-starting/independent, and very serious about taking time off.</p>
<p>-Quick question- and why do you want to take a gap year for creative writing if that’s not even what you want to major in? Why not take one for learning something in linguistics?-</p>
<p>Bottom line: you don’t really seem to know what you’re doing, you didn’t know much about the school…and I don’t know, but from what you wrote I don’t think that it was a good interview for you.</p>
<p>Sorry if this came off as harsh- I wasn’t there, it could’ve been great- this is purely from what you’ve written in the post.</p>