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[quote=Anonymous]Originally from the UK, where taking a gap year is very common. What do you Americans think about taking a gap year after securing a university place, if the institution allows it? Why don’t more universities in the US offer the option to defer for a gap year? My son is currently at Tulane, and they granted him a gap year two years ago. In the autumn, he did a Semester at Sea, followed by a French language programme in Paris during the spring. He’s now a second-year at Tulane, and the gap year was absolutely brilliant for him. My daughter has just been accepted to Cornell, but she’s feeling a bit hesitant about asking for a deferral. She wants to spend 1 year in Asia studying languages. It seems she’d have to go through quite a process of outlining and justifying her plans for the year. That’s fair enough, but it doesn’t seem like there’s a guarantee the deferral would be approved. Thoughts?[/quote]
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