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<p>Well, this is not the same question as the OP’s son’s situation. Many get admitted to Ivies after taking a gap year after high school. </p>
<p>The OP’s situation is about being rejected at a particular Ivy and reapplying to the same Ivy after a gap year. I don’t know of hardly anyone who even tried this and so can’t answer but for example, fireandrain just mentioned how a Brown applicant was successful in such a situation. I have known kids who were rejected at schools who reapplied the next year and were rejected again to the same schools but successful at OTHER very competitive schools (see andison’s story on CC for one example of applying to Swarthmore, rejected, reapplied and rejected again but got into MIT on second round). But as I wrote in one of my first posts on this thread, the odds are slim when reapplying to the same school but not impossible but what would be key is to do something different the second time around. The kid would have had to accomplish something new during the gap year, as well as approach the application in a new way and present everything differently. </p>
<p>So, I am not telling the OP to NOT have her son reapply to that dream Ivy, as he may as well try again, but rather to go about his college list very differently in the next round, as well as his entire application process, and also not to fixate on getting into that rejected Ivy and broaden the outlook from the get go because otherwise, they may be sitting here next year at this time with the same rejected Ivy and having some safety schools where he doesn’t want to attend.</p>