'21: Ross BBA or gap year to apply to Ivies this fall?

Why not go to UMich and apply to transfer to H or P? Seems like it could potentially be a massive waste of time. Sure lots of people do gap years I guess but seems pointless to do so just to reapply to Harvard/Penn with no real guarantee of getting in. Especially when Ross is already a great program.

Once you get accepted, can't you just defer your enrollment? When I was a senior, someone in my grade got accepted to her top school (I think it was Michigan State actually), but also wanted to do a gap year so she contacted the admission department to see if she could do a gap year without having to reapply and they worked something out. Every school is different though. I know for the school I went to I could have deferred my enrollment for a year and then gone back without having to reapply and receiving the same amount of scholarship. for a different school I got admitted to, it was pretty much the same except I had to tell admissions what I was going to spend my year doing (i.e. not just sitting at home but wither working, traveling, learning a language, ect) and then if the reason was good enough they would defer me till the next year. I would ask admissions and see if Michigan has some type of deferred enrollment that isn't a biding agreement (i.e. you can take the gap year and not have to reapply, but only if you agree to enroll there the next school year).

Fair.

Here in the UK people take gap years all the time (most first years are between 18-20 years old, many even older). Usually they'll work part-time or full-time to garner up a nice cushion for uni and then blow the rest on travelling. It's a great time to really learn about what you want to do in life and as cliché as it sounds to "find yourself".

Took one myself and wouldn't have done otherwise.

That's foolish. Mature and grow in college.