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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about his application would change from last year to this year? I mean, his GPA etc will all be the same, he will just be a year older.

Working on a farm is not enough to be a differentiator in an application.

Also, most who take gap years have deferred their acceptance, so have a landing spot. What happens if he tried again and doesn't get in anywhere again?[/quote]

His GPA wouldn't be the same. It will either have an extra semester or an extra year worth of grades. No school has seen the last semester's grades. Some schools haven't even seen first semester senior year grades. My kid's schools didn't.

I think working on a farm full-time for a year is unique, particularly in this day and age when most people don't live on farms. I think it could make for a wonderful essay, depending on what he learns about himself. In addition, he may be doing more than farm chores. Maybe, he will be getting some business experience - dealing with customers or distributors. Maybe he will do some marketing for the farm. Maybe it will help him define a major he wants to study. We really don't know. But it does make him sound interesting.

I agree that having a deferred acceptance is a great idea. Of course, we don't know where he applied, but clearly he either applied too high or something was a red flag on his application. So some serious review is in order, too.[/quote]

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