My feeling is that if your daughter is open to accepting a Feb admission, and could get excited about finding a cool “non-college” experience for a few months in the Fall, she should apply for either/or. In the case of my daughter, she was clear that she wanted to start her college experience in September, so when she applied, she said Fall only. We have another friend who applied and only wanted to go if he was admitted as a Feb, so it is truly an individual decision.