<p>worst case scenario, i got rejected from all my schools, what do i do for the next year?</p>
<p>take classes at a community college, or take a gap year through a gap year program and apply again the next year. Do a forum search on "gap year", or "city year" and you will get a few good answers.</p>
<p>In Mid Mayor so, there's a list posted about colleges that still have space in their class. Your counselor is aware of this (and you can find it by Googling; I just can't remember the association's name now). Some students are able to get accepted to college this way. That is what happened to a high school friend of mine. She went to Gettysburg College (She'd been rejected by Cornell and William and Mary), and was very happy there.</p>
<p>Some students go to community college and then transfer. Many community colleges guarantee transfers to in state public universities.</p>
<p>Some students take a gap year and then apply to colleges, making sure they have some safeties on their list that they'd be happy to attend. Taking a gap year to reapply to colleges that rejected you typically doesn't work no matter what you do during your gap year.</p>
<p>This happened to a student whose mom was posting on CC. Check the threads for info about "Andison". He took a gap, and applied to colleges. He got into some nice colleges, but didn't ever get admitted to colleges that had initially rejected him.</p>
<p>That is why your list of schools is so critical. A lot of people make the mistake of having a huge ego and apply to all Ivy Leagues with no safeties. :) Those 4 years of hard work go down the tubes and you have to take a year off.</p>
<p>And if that does ever happen, please don't be lazy...Be active.</p>
<p>gap year...get busy. work. volunteer. travel. do something meaningful with your life.</p>
<p>THERE ARE STILL COLLEGES ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS.</p>
<p>many state universities have Feb 1 deadlines. A few private school like Marlboro College (I beleive ) have later deadlines as well.</p>
<p>Get busy. . .fast.</p>
<p>A lot of the lower ranked private colleges will probably have openings this year.</p>
<p>Here in Cali, we have an excellent community college system, so a lot of people go to community college and transfer to the UC's</p>
<p>I know someone who just applied to too many reaches and not enough safeties and was rejected from all; he called up a bunch of schools where his SAT/GPA was higher than average and two good schools said they'd have room for him but no financial aid.</p>
<p>"In Mid Mayor so, there's a list posted about colleges that still have space in their class."</p>
<p>How does this happen? Isn't that what waitlists are for -- to fall back on if too few kids enroll?</p>
<p>The schools that post their lists are looking for certain types of students. For instance, they may want more students with higher stats than most students have on the wait list or they may be a formerly all female school that needs more guys to maintain a balance.</p>
<p>They don't, however, say on the website what they are looking for. It's likely that one would be able to get into a school this way that would normally be a safety.</p>
<p>WORK ALL YEAR ON GETTING A 2400 ON THE SAT...
take it like every month they offer it up until you get a superb score. lol</p>
<p>rack up some Ec's
take Community College Courses so you can get all your prerequisite courses out the way</p>
<p>Work + study for SATs</p>
<p>another route is go to a community college and transfer.</p>
<p>There are hundreds of schools out there that have rolling admissions in the spring. :D</p>