There are two ways this could work out, when I email or call UCSF later this week.
1. They tell me they had dismal acceptances this year (Yale did, I don't know if any other universities did) and that they'll take me this fall. I freak out and choose. If I go to UCSF, I lose a year.
2. They tell me I have to reapply in December. In this case, I apply for a leave of absence from Yale, and go to San Francisco to work a tech job while I apply and see if being back in CA makes me any happier. If it does, and I get in (which I'm 100% sure I would), then I stay. If it doesn't, I come back and start my second year at Yale as my friends start their third. In this scenario, I lose at LEAST one year, if not two. Not that that's necessarily a problem, but it should be noted.
3. I decide to do nothing, and stay at Yale and make the best of it, losing no time but possibly remaining miserable for an indefinite period of time.
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1. They tell me they had dismal acceptances this year (Yale did, I don't know if any other universities did) and that they'll take me this fall. I freak out and choose. If I go to UCSF, I lose a year.
2. They tell me I have to reapply in December. In this case, I apply for a leave of absence from Yale, and go to San Francisco to work a tech job while I apply and see if being back in CA makes me any happier. If it does, and I get in (which I'm 100% sure I would), then I stay. If it doesn't, I come back and start my second year at Yale as my friends start their third. In this scenario, I lose at LEAST one year, if not two. Not that that's necessarily a problem, but it should be noted.
3. I decide to do nothing, and stay at Yale and make the best of it, losing no time but possibly remaining miserable for an indefinite period of time.