Hello, I’m currently a senior in high school. I am planning to ask NYU CAS to grant me a gap year, but I noticed that they forbid gap year students from applying to other schools during their gap year. But, I do want to have an option to re apply to colleges during my gap year. What should I do? Can I be granted a gap year from NYU and notify them in future to give up my acceptance in order to re apply to other colleges?
“I noticed that they forbid gap year students from applying to other schools during their gap year”
Well, you answered your own question. If you can’t apply to other colleges, then you can’t. If you are not content with the rules, don’t apply to the school.
Ask the admission for the accurate answers, but I doubt that they will tell you anything different…
I know some schools (no dea about NYU) claim that if you have a Gap Year agreement that you will go on the ED accepted list in December so at that point you cannot apply as colleges will view you as having EDed to NYU.
The short answer is that you cannot apply any place else because it violates the agreement. At a minimum they could rescind your acceptance to NYU. As a practical matter I am not sure what really happens, I do not know, maybe someone else does. I know there were a bunch of people who did amazingly after taking a Gap year and redoing their applications but they may not have had a gap year agreement in place. Another thing is the conventional wisdom is that any place that did not accept you as a senior probably will not take you after a gap year unless there was some really special new information.
Guessing that you got rejected from Ivy’s (or similar- something higher ranked than NYU anyway) and want to take a gap year so that you can give it another shot, and keep NYU as a safety card.
NYU knows that students do this, so they make a rule: we will hold your place- if you really mean it. You don’t.
If you are a viable Ivy candidate, you will be able to get in to another college comparable to NYU next year as well.
If you are going to apply to other schools you will have to decline NYU. You can include them in applications next year if you want.