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[quote=Anonymous]https://www.interimprograms.com/

This is a consulting service that helps your dd put together a gap year program that makes sense for her. It doesn't have to be all one thing -- I went to a talk the owner gave and she said that people often do several different things over the course of a year (think of it like a school year).

I think a gap year can make a lot of sense and help kids grow and mature before they start college. My DH, who is a successful Ivy-trained engineer, was not at all ready to start school and struggled for quite a while in school before the school invited him to leave for a semester to get his head on straight. He went and worked for a semester, came back, finished, and launched his career. Looking back on it, he wishes he'd done a gap year of whatever kind before starting to gain that extra maturity and focus. Not everyone has that at 18 or 19 starting college.

I want my oldest to look into gap year options as well. He's at the young end of his class and won't turn 18 until the August his freshman year starts if he goes straight through. It's not a race -- he doesn't need to keep up with the Class of 2020 in marching lockstep through college, grad school, life, whatever. It's not like the Game of Life.

OP, good luck to your daughter.[/quote]

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