Hey,
If i take a year off before going to college, will colleges then primarily focus on my senior year grades and my year-off expiereince. I am planning on attenting a biomedical science college in India do do some medical research and community service. I will be finishing with 8 APS before entering college, all studied through my 8th grade and year off. I had maintained a 90 average senior year, but junior and sophmore year, my grades were an 86,87. So I was wondering how top colleges like Cornell, JHU, Penn, or Duke respond to taking a year off?
<p>Apply to college as if you werent taking a year off, and then after you are admitted, contact them and say you want to delay admission. But going to another college may make you a transfer student. Not sure.</p>
<p>I am actually not gonna be a transfer student but rather as you insisted, apply as if I werent taking a year off. But, unlike before, normally when you apply to colleges in December, the most important grades a college looks at is ur junior year transcript... but now that I am taking a year off, will my senior year grades be most important now? </p>
<p>--Also, do freshman or sophmore grades matter?</p>
<p>not sure about senior/junior. But between freshman and sophomore, I would think sophomore.</p>
<p>If you are a junior now and apply this Fall, the admissions process will proceed normally. If you want to take a year off, decide for sure after you have been accepted to some college and then ask the college to delay your entrance. Most colleges will readily delay your acceptance for a year if you have a good reason such as wanted to work abroard. </p>
<p>I you are postitive that you are going to take a year off, this might still be the best way to go. However, I'm not sure what would happen if you just don't apply this year, and apply after the year off.</p>
<p>I heartily disagree that a waitlist decision is a polite rejection.</p>