We can’t tell you how many parents who first come to us after their children more or less strike out in the highly selective college admissions process are of the mind that their children should take a gap year and then re-apply to colleges. And they’re so utterly convinced this …
A parent recently asked us, “Because so many students admitted to the Class of 2024 opted for gap years and because students who tend to take gap years are wealthy, will elite universities compensate this year by admitting more low-income students and fewer privileged applicants?” The answer is an unequivocal …
How should students admitted to college this past year as members of the Class of 2024 be spending their gap years? That’s simple. They shouldn’t be taking gap years — at least, not if they’re domestic students. As Ivy Coach is cited in Business Insider Australia in a piece entitled …
There’s an article up on Bloomberg Businessweek that focuses on how many affluent high school seniors have the option to take a gap year during these uncertain times whereas less affluent high school seniors have no such luxury. In the piece, entitled “The Covid-19 College Gap Year Exposes a Great …
A Wall Street Journal article published yesterday by Nancy Keates entitled “Incoming College Students Could Take Gap Year Over Covid-19 Uncertainty” led us to raise our eyebrows a couple of times. You see, certain elements of the piece, which focuses on how students are exploring the idea of taking a …
In light of all the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic, many of our nation’s elite universities have assured this year’s batch of high school seniors that they can choose to take a gap year if they so wished. Our nation’s top MBA programs, however, have not all been as flexible with …
A gap year, if you’re not familiar with the term, is a year that a student spends in between high school and college should he or she not want to go directly to college after high school. We’ve written quite a bit about gap years in the past and we’ve …
There’s a good post on the “US News & World Report” blog by Bradford Holmes that discusses the significance of a potential gap year in between senior year of high school and freshman year of college. In the post, Holmes writes, “The benefits of a gap year for you must …
