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wait a year before uni?
Replies: 28 — Last Post Aug. 3, 2008 6:38pm by TigressaLynnMae
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I'm wondering if any of you have waited a year before going to a university/college.

I'm really lost right now and I'm in between two colleges that I have no desire to go to and I just realized I turned down the college that I really wanted to go to (you realize how much something means to you right when it's gone).

I'm thinking of reapplying to other colleges and working full time.

Good idea? Anyone done it before?

2:31 pm on Aug. 2, 2008
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nope. i went from high school straight to college. i didn't muck around
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firstly, stop raping the anon button, and i work part time and go to college. so maybe you should wait a year?

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starrynight401


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Go locally for a semester and reapply to the school you turned down now
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Lulamae

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Can't you have a personal meeting with one of the people at the college to try to take back your choice to turn it down?
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I waited. I applied for a college and then decided I didn't want to go. So, even though I graduated, I went back to High School for a year and now I'm going to college.

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Quote: from Lulamae at 2:36 pm on Aug. 2, 2008
Can't you have a personal meeting with one of the people at the college to try to take back your choice to turn it down?

Possibly. I'm actually going to try that on Monday. The thing I'm worrying about in that case is finding an apartment.

2:42 pm on Aug. 2, 2008
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Quote: from Rebecca li at 2:39 pm on Aug. 2, 2008
I waited. I applied for a college and then decided I didn't want to go. So, even though I graduated, I went back to High School for a year and now I'm going to college.

How did you go back to high school and why?

2:42 pm on Aug. 2, 2008
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i went straight from high school to college.  and the college of my choice.  the best decision i think i have ever made
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I think that's what i'm going to be doing.

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Quote: from Love Today at 2:50 pm on Aug. 2, 2008
I think that's what i'm going to be doing.

May I ask what your reasons for waiting are?

3:56 pm on Aug. 2, 2008
TigressaLynnMae


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I went straight from Graduating as a Senior, to starting as a Freshman in University. Many who take a break/year off, hardly ever come back.

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TheatreMinelli

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I did another year at school to get better grades then got into a better uni. Even if I had the grades I wouldn't have wanted to go. The poster above me is misinformed. It is quite common nowadays to take a gap year.

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TigressaLynnMae


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The poster above me is misinformed. It is quite common nowadays to take a gap year

I would have to say I highly disagree, on account of the people I know that did take a year off, and even those who took off DURING their college years...they didn't come back. It's highly recommended to go STRAIGHT to college, on account of that.

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Quote: from TigressaLynnMae at 2:16 am on Aug. 3, 2008
The poster above me is misinformed. It is quite common nowadays to take a gap year

I would have to say I highly disagree, on account of the people I know that did take a year off, and even those who took off DURING their college years...they didn't come back. It's highly recommended to go STRAIGHT to college, on account of that.

Over here I would say at least 1/3 of students take a gap year before returning to Uni. Many of them work some travel but it is highly common. Universitys have also started favouring those who gap year to volunteer or travel. My friend went to work in a hostel in France for a year for people with mental health problems and got offered a top spot for medicine on condition he took this year out. another on of my friends just worked to save uo for Uni, I know people who have gone and worked in a ski chalet for a year. Gives you something more than just education.

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