<p>You should go to UCLA and do well there. It’s an excellent university with a very good reputation. Taking a gap year and reapplying is unlikely to change your result. I think entering UCLA with the stated objective of getting the hell out as quickly as possible is going to color your whole experience there negatively. Let go of what’s past and make as much as you can out of an opportunity that the majority of American students would envy.</p>
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<p>Uh…you can’t do that. If you apply ED, you are promising to attend if admitted. You’re not permitted to make that promise to “most of [your] schools” simultaneously, because you couldn’t possible keep it.</p>