<p>If you have been accepted and defer for a year is it then verboten to apply elsewhere during that gap year, based on your additional experience? Or is this permissible?</p>
<p>Also, can you submit deposits and defer at two places --then decide over the year which to really attend? Or, is that not acceptable? </p>
<p>Thanks for any insight into acceptable protocol here for a deferring student taking a gap year.</p>
<p>My understanding is that unless you were accepted ED, it is okay to wait until May 1 to send in your acceptance. In the meantime, you are free to apply elsewhere. Once you have accepted the offer of admission, you can ask to defer matriculation by one year. I do not know whether it is strictly verboten, but it is certainly frowned upon.</p>
<p>My understanding is that unless you were accepted ED, it is okay to wait until May 1 to send in your acceptance. In the meantime, you are free to apply elsewhere. Once you have accepted the offer of admission, you can ask to defer matriculation by one year. I do not know whether it is strictly verboten, but it is certainly frowned upon. And defer at TWO places? Wow.</p>
<p>OOPS. Sorry for the double post.</p>
<p>My question refers to regular acceptance. Let’s say you are accepted to two schools that you like but want a gap year. </p>
<p>Are you allowed to accept and defer just one and reserve your place for the next year with a deposit --OR does anyone ever reserve two schools with two deposits, and then decide?</p>
<p>And, if someone accepts a place but takes a gap year, is it verboten to apply elsewhere in the interim and then not attend the school that held a place for you over the year?</p>
<p>It is generally ok to apply elsewhere during the gap year, but with your deferral you will be required to make a deposit, and the deposit is not refundable. </p>
<p>It would not be considered acceptable to make double deposits – you are going to have to decide which school to defer. Though I am not sure how schools would go about enforcing that. It really isn’t honest, but a lot can happen in a gap year and I am sure that schools are used to a certain rate of attrition among deferred students.</p>