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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are sophomores so not quite in the application process, but they were told something like 77% of applicants now take gap years. So, yes it’s extremely common. 
And your comment about not sending him to a bottom med school - he should go anywhere he can get in happily. You can’t be selective. [/quote]

OP - separate and apart from your DS (who should dream his own dreams and do what he needs to do to pursue them), I'd start getting comfortable with the idea that DS could wind up in DO school or maybe he gets into one school and that school is an HBCU or someplace random like Univ of Mississippi. For the record I have nothing against HBCUs and would be happy for my kid to go but you mention med/law/Wall Street, mention UNC as just a flagship state undergrad that isn't MIT, and don't want him to go to a bottom of the barrel school, so maybe you'd have an issue with it? Practice being happy for HIS dreams, not yours even though you'd want to see him at Hopkins Med; it does not sound like he has what it takes to get into Hopkins.[/quote]

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