<p>Kent’s a fine school, although it would have been ideal to get into Andover or Exeter. The thing about a gap year is that the only grades your colleges will see are the ones from the first semester. So, it’s really only half worth it. If you show a strong improvement in your grades this fall, then you could certainly get in somewhere better than a community college. For people who go straight to college, it’s the junior year and then the senior fall that makes the biggest impact on candidacy.</p>
<p>EDIT: By gap year, I meant PG year.</p>