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[quote=Anonymous]"If you commit to a school and then defer admission, many schools require that you do not take academic classes at another school."

I think this is focused on the wrong part of the requirement.  I don't think any school cares if you take classes at another school during a deferment.

What colleges don't want is you showing up with a years worth of community college classes to transfer and thinking you only need three more years to have a complete Top 20 education.

Take classes during part (or part time) during a gap year.  If you hope to be an engineer, retake Calc II or take Calc III and repeat it first semester.

I know math skills can atrophy over a gap year from personal experience.  If you hope to study a writing heavy major, it can never hurt to take a class or two that strengthen writing skills.

Not every skill will atrophy equally but lots of times gap years are desirable because of perceived pressure.

Pressure often comes when students are trying to hold together a high GPA when they have skill weaknesses/holes.

So part of what might be thought of as skill atrophy is really skill gaps/weaknesses.  If part of the gap year can be used to fill holes/address weaknesses that is good.

Further, the set of study skills you used in HS may not cut the mustard in college.

Classes during a gap year can expose these issues if any of the classes taken aren't just repeats and explorations of new subjects.

For example, calc III will expose any weaknesses in your AP Calc BC background.[/quote]

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