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<li><p>I think if you have spent any time registered as a full-time student working towards a post-secondary degree, you are required to transfer. But I’m not sure that applies if you never completed any courses.</p></li>
<li><p>It is reportedly extremely rare – as in maybe nonexistent – for a highly selective college like Yale to accept a student applying as a new freshman in a gap year who applied and was rejected as a high school senior. Other highly selective colleges might accept him, but his chances are even more terrible than average at the places where he applied and was rejected the year before. If track didn’t make a difference last year, it’s not going to make a difference this year, either, unless times, etc. have gotten much better (and then there’s the issue of having to sit out a year when you transfer if you were doing the sport at school #1).</p></li>
<li><p>Why would the student in the OP’s post be a stronger candidate than he was the year before?</p></li>
<li><p>The OP’s vision of what a state university is like is completely effed-up.</p></li>
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