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[quote=Anonymous]This is just a case of Americans freaking at a concept that is common and accepted in other countries. Not everyone thinks kids' prospects are forever wrecked if they don't start college immediately after high school (and in an area like ours, where students are often pretty burned out just trying to keep up grades and extracurriculars in the extreme competition to get into college these days, a break sounds pretty beneficial).

I've known several families overseas whose kids did a gap year before college and those kids were all much more ready for college because of taking some time off academics. In one case, the kid just worked and saved money; in another, the kid traveled for a time but then came back home and participated in a volunteering program (related to her field of study) that was mostly full-time for several months.

Gap years are not for everyone, and kids who are heading into fields where they must do postgrad degrees probably don't have the time to wait a year to start undergraduate classes. But taking a gap year is not a reason to gasp and assume that kids will just screw around for a year. Each family does it differently if they do it at all.

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