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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think your son is acting mature at all. He took the easy way out — working in a familiar setting with grandparents and cousins. 
I’m not a big fan of gap years because college passes very quickly and all the friends and acquaintances have moved on and matured. His ego is hurt. I get that. 
But colleges are a business and admissions get harder not easier.  
Revisit the college. Take a deferral if you can. You don’t know whether the next cycle will be better than this one. Your best chance is right after HS. 
I think as parents your fears are legitimate. GL. [/quote]

All of this.[/quote]
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Take a deferral to the school he was admitted to. 
Work the year at the farm and also invest time this summer in something that will improve his fall applications if he wants to try applying to different schools.
Be prepared to go to the admitted school if he doesn’t come up with other options.[/quote]

He may not be able to apply if deferred. OP you need to find out if his HS would send out another round of recs and transcripts if he is graduated and deferred. They may not. If he will be locked into that school, may as well go in the fall. If he does not lock it in by attending or deferring, he may be at a local 2 year college in 2024. He has not proposed doing something new for the next round of applications, the farm is already there. [/quote]

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