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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

This is a very reasonable plan 
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Terrible plan !

Do NOT defer if he decides to take a gap year. Why defer an acceptance to a school that he does not want to attend ?

How does a deferral affect his ability to apply to other schools next cycle ?[/quote]

You would have to look at the terms of the deferral agreement for the particular school. Ultimately at any school, you'd just lose your deposit, but they wouldn't know that you were applying elsewhere.

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By signing the deferral agreement, the student may be contracting to not apply to any other schools.

And there could be consequences at any new school if the terms of a deferral agreement are violated.[/quote]

I repeat: Do NOT defer the acceptance in this situation for the reasons that I have posted already.

This type of situation has occurred and received publicity with respect to law school acceptances. Student defers an acceptance, then applies next cycle to higher ranked law schools. Student gets into a better law school and deposits there with no intention of abiding by his/her deferral agreement. The new law school finds out and rescinds the acceptance. The old law school rescinds the acceptance due to a violation of the terms of the deferral agreement. The student will have difficulty getting through the character & fitness part of any bar application process. [/quote]

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