<p>about the disadvantages of reapplying, but what happens if I do not have a gap year? </p>
<p>I am a high school junior right now hoping to apply a year early because I am in a position to graduate high school a year early. I don't actually expect to get in, given the low admission rates, but I still want a shot at it. </p>
<p>If I don't get in, I am planning to re-apply next year and stay in high school one more year for senior year. Given this circumstance, would I be disadvantaged when I re-apply next year because I am an reapplicant? Would there be a bias against me next year because I was rejected this year?</p>
<p>I think the advice given in the other thread is still valid -- you would be re-evaluated from scratch, likely with different application readers, and your application would not be at an disadvantage. </p>
<p>However, if you were rejected your junior year and your senior year application was not any stronger, there will not be an automatic advantage for merely being a year older.</p>
<p>No, they will not compare your application to the previous year's, to my knowledge. They don't generally read applications in the office anyway (so the readers wouldn't have immediate access to the previous application).</p>
<p>This would not be considered a gap year, as long as you don't graduate early and are still in high school.</p>
<p>Just curious- are there any advantages/disadvantages to getting the high school diploma a year early, then staying in high school for one more year than graduating in the regular senior year? </p>
<p>The only difference would be that I'd have a high school diploma in my senior year, right?</p>
<p>The disadvantage is basically just that you'd have one fewer year to do extracurriculars, collect awards, create close relationships with recommenders, and take a challenging courseload. You have to do in 2.5 years what most students have 3.5 years to do.</p>
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While entering college/MIT at a younger age is not the right course for most students, for a select few it is exactly the right course of action... with these students' applications, we'll for the most part treat them as any other application, but we will ask a few additional questions: Why is this student applying to college now? Have they exhausted all of their resources? Do the teachers support this decision? Does this student have the emotional and social maturity to be a successful college/MIT student?