<p>If you e.d. to some college and get rejected, can you apply to that college again by regular decision? i'm wondering if you can do that for nyu stern, and other business schools in majority.</p>
<p>Not typically, at least for that same admission season.</p>
<p>No, they will either reject you or defer you to RD themselves. If rejected you’d have to do something to improve your profile and try the next year.</p>
<p>@brownparent @fostej. </p>
<p>so you guys are saying, if you got rejected e.d., you, generally for most colleges, can’t apply regular decision? </p>
<p>& the only way you can apply again is the freshmen year of college? </p>
<p>also, what is the gre for? i heard it’s like a college level SAT. do you have to take the gre to get into a school to get a phd or a 6 year degree or something?</p>
<p>Brownparent is correct. Once rejected you can’t reapply that year. You can take a gap year and apply next year, or go to a different college and try to transfer.</p>
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<p>The college may choose to defer you into the regular decision pool. In that case you will be considered along with the regular decision applicants. If that happens, keep the admissions office informed of any new accomplishments (for example, my D had a high finish in the state fencing tournament in February last year, she passed that info on via email to the admissions offices that were still considering her applications for admissions). And let them know you are still very interested in the school. Don’t pester – but a couple of communications with additional info and confirming your interest won’t hurt.</p>
<p>If you are rejected from the ED pool, that is it for this year. Do NOT apply again in the same year’s RD pool (they will not accept you, and if you think you might try to transfer in someday, guess again – they will remember and will have tagged you as “never admit” for sure if you tried to apply twice in the same year).</p>
<p>Correct. One app per school per academic year.</p>
<p>@Erin’s Dad</p>
<p>how can i take a gap year? does the h.s. have to offer it to you? or can you just talk to your guidance counselor and he’ll give it to you?. </p>
<p>Or, is the only way you can take it is if you get accepted to a college, and ask for help there?</p>
<p>oh my goodness… I plan to major in business and my parents keep bugging me to take more than 4 years of college… but in that case, i have to take the gre to get into grad. school.</p>
<p>also, what’s an mba program or a mba degree? i keep seeing those terms when i do research on gre. sigh. just when i thought the sat would be the last stop of all annoying tests… here comes another one… gre…</p>
<p>You take a gap year if you choose to, you don’t need to get approval from your HS or GC.</p>
<p>If accepted to a college during sr year, you can ask them if you can defer matriculation for a year. During this year, some schools allow you to apply to other schools and others don’t, it depends on the agreement you sign.</p>
<p>Please ask your questions about the GRE and MBAs on the appropriate forums.</p>
<p>Forget about gap year. Gap year just means not going to college and then waiting until the next year to apply again. You don’t need any permission. But it isn’t a good idea if you don’t have a good plan for what you will do that year to make yourself improved and looking better to the schools you didn’t get into. Just come up with a good and realistic list of colleges now so you will have options when acceptance time comes around. </p>
<p>Don’t focus on graduate school at this time. It is just a distraction to what you need to be concentrating on. You will have plenty of time to think about whether to continue your education or not is best. You will have more knowledge after being in school for a couple of years.</p>
<p>Agree with Brownparent, forget about grad school for now (and MBA programs usually require the GMAT, not the GRE). There is a whole different application and testing process for grad school – but that is the least of your worries right now. You need to get a clear handle on the undergraduate application (and probably financial aid) process and keep you eye on that ball until you are through your first couple years of college. Junior year of college is plenty early enough to worry about possible grad schools and what is required to apply when you are a senior.</p>
<p>At many college orientations, we were told that once you are rejected for ED, you won’t be accepted via RD because they’ve already made a decision about you and they won’t rehash it. Disadvantage: if you are accepted ED, you may not know if you will get ANY Financial aid because those decisions come out after FAFSA information is given and ED means you are going to go to that school.</p>
<p>Why are you looking for GRE information??? You can’t and won’t know about grad school until you find your major and decide whether your career needs it. It doesn’t sound like your parents have a lot of experience in this area because they would have explained that more schooling doesn’t necessarily equate to more money or career advantages especially since the costs of attending grad school have dramatically increased.</p>
<p>RE post grad work EXAMPLE: If you plan to be a working psychologist, you definitely need to go to grad school since most working psychologists need Ph.D’s.</p>
<p>I believe MTEP is starting his sophomore year in HS… and worried about “gap years”, Early Decision strategies, studying for the “GRE” and getting an “MBA” as well as the state of bias against Asians.</p>
<p>Sincerely MTEP: you’ll have an ulcer before the year is out. You should really leave CC for about two years</p>
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<p>I have been to approximately 40 college info sessions over the course of multiple kids, and I have never heard anything like that. If they REJECT your application in ED, then of course that is correct. But no college that defers applications would even make a statement like that. Your odds are not great if you are deferred, but you do have a shot at acceptance in the regular pool depending on how the applicants that apply RD look.</p>
<p>Intparent, I think what you’ve stated is the same as what you quoted from Bea. There is nothing in there about deferment. </p>
<p>OP, you’ve got a good number of questions. Drop by the library and pick up a college admission book like Admission Matters to give yourself some background on the process, etc.</p>
<p>intparent: I’ve been to many college info sessions over multiple kids as well, and Erin’s dad is correct: I didn’t mentioned anything about deferment.<br>
We were specifically told at a legacy meeting, with Stanford alumni, that they (Stanford) will not look at a student for RD who went through the ED application-they said “we wont rehash that application because we have already made a decision specific to that student”.</p>