| I considered graduating early to go to college (actually, I might have officially dropped out because the administration didn't want to let me graduate early). I feel that I'm better off for not having done so: I would have gone to a college that while decent, just wasn't the school for me.
In my situation, I was considering going straight to college. In your situation, however, I'm not quite sure how it will benefit you personally (besides allowing you to take a gap year while entering the job market on-time, if that's what you're interested in). If you can offer a good enough reason, then any college worth going to should accept it (but my understanding is that normally you elect to tell the college you've matriculated to that you want to take a gap year after you've matriculated, not before you even apply for admission). I suspect that any college admission office for a powerhouse school (Caltech, MIT, Stanford, Ivy's) would like to see that you actually did something meaningful rather than know you just sat around your parent's house. |