Gap Year Gold: Using Gap Year To Boost Admissions
November 13, 2025
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Focuses on gap years helping with maturity, clarity, and strategic application enhancement (Crimson Education, 10/7/2025). Click here
Gen Z embracing gap years before college
August 11, 2025
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Includes data from Gap Year Solutions on the number of students taking gap years. NY Post, 7/30/2025. Click here.
How To Take a Gap Year
December 18, 2024
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Abby Falik on the benefits of taking a break from traditional education. On the How To! podcast (5/28/2024). Click here. Transcript here.
The Case for Taking a Gap Year Before College
November 24, 2024
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Harvard Business Review, 11/8/2024. Click here.
1 in 6 Companies are Hesitant to Hire Recent College Graduates
October 6, 2024
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Click here for article summarizing study with 966 business leaders (Intelligent.com, updated 9/13/2024)
Seven Gap Year Trends to Know for 2024
February 15, 2024
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Click here for article from Winter 2024 edition of IECA Insights Magazine
Gap year takers: uptake, trends and long term outcomes (2012)
February 8, 2024
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U.K. study looking at longer-term outcomes of gap years (published Nov 2012). Click here for study
2023 High School Gap Year Survey
January 13, 2024
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Survey conducted by Gap Year Solutions. Click here to access results (posted 1/12/2024)
Seeking College Admissions Edge, More Students Take Gap Year
April 28, 2022
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Rising rejections at highly-selective colleges and hopes for better luck in a year are pushing more seniors to take a yearlong pause after high school.
Gap Year Research Consortium
February 17, 2022
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Find data and research related to Gap Years at the Gap Year Research Consortium at Colorado College website.