<p>Hi I recently went to a princeton review counseling session. I am applying for the spring semester with a score of 1790 and a 3.8 Gpa. I worked in an adult education program and did a summer internship. The counselor told me that I would never get accepted for the spring semester and should take a three month princeton prep course. I would have to drop this year.
I am only applying to decent state universities within my score (for spring) range since I do not intend to waste the entire year.
Is there anyone who has taken a drop? Can anyone suggest universities which have a large acceptance rate so that I can somehow enroll in spring and then apply as a transfer student to a better school after preparing well for the SAT? I passed my 12th with 84% this may.</p>
<p>P.S. please help I am very stressed since my entire family blames me for ruining my career.</p>
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Obviously s/he was trying to sell you their course.</p>
<p>If you need financial aid, schools with large acceptance rates are rare. </p>
<p>Admission is hard for Internationals in good schools to begin with, even for freshman admissions. It will be super hard for transfers. Especially if you need financial aid. It is close to impossible for an international transfer to get financial aid.</p>
<p>What about average schools with no financial aid? I don’t want to waste this year.</p>
<p>Hey! i have taken a gap year myself. I think you should try in State Universities. I am going to do that. But I’ll be applying for fall semester. State Universities which are comparatively easier to get in are like Stony Brook, Georgia Tech, Penn State, Texas AnM college station etc. This information is limited to my knowledge, though I am not 100% sure of the actual state.</p>
<p>My advice would be to carefully think through this decision - don’t compromise on your education in the interest of not ‘wasting’ a year. If you are ultimately not happy with your college, you would have ended up wasting not one, but four years and a lot of effort and money. </p>
<p>Transfers may sound like an easy way out - they are not. Transfer applications are incredibly competitive, international transfer application even more so and financial aid is outright not offered in most schools to international transfers.</p>
<p>In this light, a gap year does not seem to be a bad idea. In fact, it is an accepted practice in Europe and with reason - this is an opportunity you have to enrich yourself in ways that might have not been feasible while at school. Make the most of all the time you have, retake your SATs to reach a score that satisfies you and apply to schools you would actually love to study at.</p>
<p>Good luck :)</p>