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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most gap years are kids who have been accepted somewhere and defer, not kids who hope to go to a competitive college by applying the year after they graduate. Unless you have a spectacular story about what you are doing in your gap year ("I didn't get in to Stanford and didn't have any other options" isn't a good one), or have health or family issues that made it impractical, typically your application is not improved by waiting a year. I'm sure there are exceptions to this but it's not an option I would bank on.

The OP seems to have disappeared so perhaps she/he was a troll.[/quote]

Agree that most gap years are planned such that if x activity comes through, the student will defer college for one year. And getting rejected and applying again without some HUGE change in your resume isn't going to get you into Stanford the second time around. I think the above advice about saying he'll take a gap yr if he doesn't get into S is just what you tell other students/peers so that you don't have to discuss it in depth. What he does for his plan B is up to him.[/quote]

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