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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. Defer from the accepted school for a year - do not decline (say its to help grandparents on the family farm, should be fine).

2. Let him go work on the farm!  He will mature and do manual labor and spend time with grandparents - win/win/win.

3.  He applies again, writing his essay about helping out on the family farm, which lead him to apply to different schools.

4. He gets in at new schools, or, he attends the one he deferred.  Make it clear that these are the only options, he can have a gap year on the farm, but he has to go to college after that[/quote]

OP, this is strong advice. If he wants to do a gap year, then he needs to defer from his only admission as there are NO guarantees that next year's. admits, if any, will be better for him.

I would also remind him, if he is not aware already, that roughly 30% of college students transfer. Even before this upside down world of college admissions over the last three cycles, I know kids who did not get into reaches, etc, buckled down for first year at where they were accepted, and transferred schools for start of sophomore year.

Our daughter mulled a gap year and she had gotten into her ED. We were initially hesitant, then sort of open to it. She was NOWHERE near as organized as your son is here about it. We did discuss how she would enter a year older and wiser than other freshman and that might be a challenge. In the end, she went to accepted students' day and came home with "I'm doing it" attitude and has been really happy. If your son has gone to accepted students and he is still set on a gap year, that may be your answer.

While I agree that it would have been better if your son had discussed with you, I am super impressed at his approach. As you probably know, farm work is no joke and those early AM winter chores are going to be pretty, pretty hard. But he will come out of that year truly knowing what manual labor is as well as how hard it is to run a family farm and that may be the best impulse to enter college fall 2024.

OP, good luck to your DS and family.[/quote]

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