Does anyone know of anyone who was rejected from a college and then decided to take a year off and reapply? Were they accepted or rejected?
All stories and experiences welcome!
<p>there is someone who was rejected twice, accepted once after he went to a cc. (applied during senior year, first year during cc)</p>
<p>Accepted as a soph. transfer after getting the big R the first time around</p>
<p>Thank you for your help. However, I'm not wondering about transfer students. I'm talking about students who were rejected in their senior year of hs, and then decided to postpone college, apply that year, and either got accepted or rejected.
Who can help me out?</p>
<p>I don't know any students who did that successfully. Successfully being the key word</p>
<p>There is someone on the Princeton board who was rejected RD then reapplied ED the next year and got in. I think you have to spend that year off wisely though.</p>
<p>Thanks!
More anyone?</p>
<p>Are you just trying to gather a bunch of cases where people have succeeded in this so that you'll feel better about doing it yourself? If you are already taking that year off, there's not much you can do, but if you're a senior and thinking about this as your back-up plan, I would strongly discourage it. Most people don't accomplish enough impressive things during the gap year and they end up being no better than they were the first time around. The cases where people have gotten in on the second try are few...you're better off applying as a transfer.</p>
<p>She/He plans on going to China and studying the language/writing/culture I think</p>
<p>I was in waitlisted at a college and yes I am taking a gap year and considering reapplying.</p>
<p>So currently you have no attachments to any college? Or did you defer somewhere?</p>
<p>I deferred somewhere.</p>
<p>Some of the best parts of my application that allowed me to be waitlisted but eventually rejected have been improved and expanded since I applied to that college. I plan to travel through South America next year. The biggest weakness of my application was my test scores, and I hope to improve them before applying early.</p>