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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m from the UK where gap years are very common. I appreciate it is very different here but it is common in the UK for kids to either get a job for say 6 months to save money and then use the money to travel for the remainder, or to go work and travel somewhere else (e.g. in Australia or Thailand or somewhere with a lot of travelers). Some kids also do gap year programs which usually involve a combination of volunteering, working or studying. Some of these are expensive but others are not.[/quote]

What is the purpose of doing any of that, what does that do for these kids? They could easily do mall of that stuff either during summer between college semesters, or after they graduate.

The overwhelming majority of people I know who went to college, did not take a gap year and they all turned out just fine. I don’t see the point, seems to just delay getting college over and done with.[/quote]

In the UK, one applies to a "course" within a university/college, which would be the equivalent of a major here. It's 3 years. It's hard to transfer out of if student has remorse. So the gap year is that year of exploration of the self before heading into an intensive 3 year program.[/quote]

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