Is it worth taking a "gap" year to boost my chances at college?

@lookingforward sorry, but I dont think the grades quoted from peers are debatable. there is an official website for my school where the counselor inputs everyone’s exact GPA and SAT scores into the system and colleges that the students got accepted to. I am pretty sure that a 3.96 UW is lower than the national average gpa acceptance for Chicago

It is not the students who input their grades in this website, its the school administrators and counselors