<p>I am a student at a New England LAC. I'm really unhappy here, so I applied to a couple schools for transfer. I guess I overestimated myself because they all rejected me. I REALLY don't want to come back here next year. Can anyone think of anything I could do for a year off, after which I could try to transfer again? I'm open to anything, I just really can't come back here.</p>
<p>Travel to some foreign country or try to get a good internship. I dunno, but good luck!</p>
<p>Schools are still taking applications. Some are listed on the commonapp.org website. An overall listing of colleges with openings will be posted on May 5th at <a href="http://www.nacacnet.org%5B/url%5D">www.nacacnet.org</a>. Some good places still have openings in spring and summer, most years. Rutgers is a well known school that usually takes late applications, and there are others.</p>
<p>If you like community service, check into Americorps and Americorps programs like CityYear, which still are taking applications. You can find them on the web.</p>
<p>If you take a year off, enjoy yourself, have some awesome experiences, and save up some money, just don't loose steam and not go back to school after the year is up! that's the hard part.</p>
<p>I would do an intensive summer school somewhere different and then take off and work at a job in the profession you may have an interest in -- e.g. work as a clerk for lawyers and see just how profoundly wrong you were to think of such a profession. </p>
<p>Many of my friends worked outdoors (construction) for a year and decided that a lifetime of that would be a disaster -- so they earned much better grades when they returned.</p>
<p>Also, taking some classes at night while working may keep you on track for graduation -- and let's you experience a different campus and meet a lot of new people.</p>