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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Totally disagree with those who say working on the farm for a year will make applying to college more difficult. Colleges will understand the maturity this kind of work builds and will value that. He will do better with admissions after a year on the farm, and will have had a chance to clear his head and figure out exactly what he wants. [/quote]

This is just wrong.  Generally, gap years are fine if a student is deferring an acceptance.  Colleges have been transparent that a gap year rarely improves an application.  Students don’t have enough time between graduation and submitting new applications to meaningfully improve their profile, and getting letters of recommendation, etc. becomes much more difficult.  Who will write an updating recommendation to address the gap time? Obviously, the grandparents cannot do this.

The best advice in this thread is to engage a knowledgeable private counselor to do a post-mortem on this application cycle and discuss the gap year plan and it’s implications.[/quote]

+1 
If targets and safeties were picked appropriately, the kid should have gotten into more than 1 of them.  So they kid needs a college counselor to help pick a good list.  However, with senioritis and possibly lower grades 2nd semester, I'm not sure how the kid will be any more impressive for the next round of applications.  Sounds like the kid needs to wrap their head around the fact they targeting "too high" of schools and they might only have more success with targeting "lower ranked schools" and if the kid does not like where they got accepted, they may not like where else they can get into.  
Sounds like kid is just upset they only got into 1 school and is making a drastic decision based on that.  [/quote]

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