It happened exactly similar case to friend's kid. answers:

Answers:

1. Rolling colleges are there, check and find some. And two WL schools still have good shots, don't give up.

2. My friend's kid went to a college lab to shadow a professor for 1 semester, at the mean time, applied  the following year, Ed1 defer, then Ed2 got in a T20 school.

3. Local CC is also viable choice, another kid got a transfer-in admission from a top school, so she decided to stay in local CC to finish some classes and travel.