How a Gap Year Consultant Can Help Make Your Gap Year Better by Hannah Miller You’ve read a few gap year related articles. You’ve started marking a map with your dreamdestinations and your room is littered with guidebooks. You’ve puzzled over budgeting andsavings and you’ve told everyone who will listen that you’re planning on taking a Gap Year. But how will you put all of the pieces together? Planning a Gap Year can be an intimidating task. As the idea of traveling the world for a year before entering university gains popularity, the list of available gap year programs and…
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International Experience and University by Hannah Miller How many extra credits can I pack in? Will this essay work for my college admissions? Which school is going to be the best for me? Will I make friends? What if we’ve been asking ourselves the wrong questions all along? What would happen if we stopped focusing on how to “make college work” and instead focused on personal goals for the college experience and the years beyond? Setting those personal goals begins with a deep understanding of what we want. Unfortunately, most of us truly don’t know what we want from the…
College Applications and Gap Years by Tim Patterson What do college admissions officers think about Gap Years, and how might the decision to take a Gap Year impact your college application prospects? In this post Tim Patterson, Director of Admission at Sterling College in Vermont, sheds some light on Gap Years from the perspective of a college admissions officer. More and more students are choosing to take a gap year between high school and college. For college admissions officers like me, the growing popularity of gap years is a trend that merits close attention. Personally, I am a big fan…
Taking a Gap Year After College by Raquel WHY I OPTED FOR A GAP YEAR ABROAD AFTER COLLEGE Due to scholarship requirements and an eagerness to launch my undergraduate career, taking off for a year after high school wasn’t in the cards for me. However, that didn’t mean I was going to pass up a Gap Year all together, and four years later I found myself face to face with the invaluable opportunity to live abroad for a year. In March of my senior year of college, I received a long-awaited email with a few short sentences informing me that…
Attending University Abroad: How & Why by Sophia de Bruin The university or college experience is life changing for many, and with more and more opportunities available for young adults to study abroad, as part of, or in addition to their Gap Year, having an affordable and memorable post secondary education in a country other than your own is easier than ever. Over 313,000 students studied abroad in 2014/15 alone, with 63% of these students studying abroad for up to three weeks, and 3% studying abroad long term, for a full academic or calendar year. However, besides the benefits of…