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
Canvassing, traveling, teaching: How three students filled their gap year
March 17, 2025
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Brown University allows all admitted students to “request to defer enrollment” for one year Link to article from The Brown Daily Herald, 3/17/2025
The value of a gap year
March 9, 2025
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Taking time off to figure things out, or taking a gap year can be extremely valuable, especially if you aren’t sure what kind of path you want to follow after
More parents say “why not?”
March 17, 2024
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By Katherine Stievater, Founder of Gap Year Solutions Parent attitudes towards Gap Years are changing. Parents I speak with used to be more skeptical of Gap Years. I’m not getting
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)
Still Only 2-3% of US Students Take Gap Year
December 21, 2023
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Despite rising awareness of Gap Years and a COVID-induced surge in Gap Years, the number of high school students taking a Gap Year has returned to pre-pandemic levels. We know this from two different sources.
Discover Gap Years! – Part 3
March 26, 2023
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When I speak with high school audiences, I get asked all the time about how Gap Year planning relates to the college admissions process. This post covers five key points about this question.
Gap Year Deferrals Back to Pre-COVID Levels
September 30, 2022
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After a huge spike in Gap Year deferrals during the early part of COVID-19 to avoid online learning and campus lockdowns, Gap Year numbers appear to have settled back to their pre-COVID levels.
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.
My student didn’t take a Gap Year!
September 13, 2021
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My third son just started college, after deciding not to take a Gap Year…At the end of the day, he exemplifies what I hope for all students: full awareness of the Gap Year option and its benefits, and then a thoughtful CHOICE about whether or not to defer the start of college.