Rejected from Brown: UVA vs. Binghamton vs. Gap Year or Transfer

TAKE A GAP YEAR! People are always scared of taking a gap year because it is not the traditional way of doing things, but it doesn’t mean that what you’re doing is wrong. Taking a gap year will give you a good chance to enhance your college app and improve some test scores, so you can re-apply next year. One year is not a whole lot in the grand scheme of life and it will be better for you than attending a school you know you will dislike and trying to transfer out because transfer applications are extremely stressful. You’ll need to fill them out after first semester and have 3 letters of rec from college profs ready to go. You also won’t have time to improve you SAT score, which held you back from being accepted the first time around