<p>I am an applicant from Canada. Last year, I was waitlisted at Harvard, Princeton and UPenn and rejected from Yale and Stanford. </p>
<p>I chose to attend the University of Toronto this year. However, after two months of being there, I am very unhappy with my program and am considering dropping out and taking a gap year to gain some perspective, decide what I want to study, and also reapply to colleges in the states as that has been a dream of mine. </p>
<p>If i reapply, I would apply to the same schools above and also a few that I did not apply to including MIT, Caltech, Berkeley. In any case, I would still have my acceptances at McGill and UToronto in Canada as well as my scholarships. </p>
<p>Is taking a gap year at this point at all advisable given the situation?</p>
<p>Did you mean waitlisted, then rejected at H, P, UPenn? Your chances would not be improved by applying again, after being rejected by those 5 schools. The addition of MIT, Caltech and UCB are all reaches as well–why not put a few target level schools on the list?</p>
<p>You probably won’t get into Berkeley or any other UC school via a transfer application. They give priority to community college transfers, so you have to go through a CC to transfer in unless you are extremely lucky.</p>
<p>Finish your current term strong and do well --get great grades.
Consider carefully what you would study this spring that you would both enjoy and would transfer.
Dropping out of school and waiting to re-aply to those very selective won’t be a good idea.
Also Princeton does not take transfers.</p>