<p>a friedn got rejected from Yale, MIT, UPENN and Stanford the first time he applied. The second year he applied again, and was accepted to all the universities he applied to.</p>
<p>I guess the thing is to find out what was your application lacking, why were you rejected and solve it. He had really weak Service (EC’s) so that year off he got, he used it to do a lot of service projects, volunteer here and there…i uess that was enough.</p>