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[quote=Anonymous]It seems to becoming more and more common. In my DD's recent graduating class from a top academic independent, my quick calculation indicates at least 15% of kids took a gap year, and to my knowledge none did so to try and reapply and get into a better college (kids going to Harvard, Yale, Middlebury, Colorado College, Wesleyan, Pomona, Dartmouth for instance). Most, including my daughter, worked for part of the year to make money to then cover the remainder of the year traveling and in some cases volunteering overeas. At least for my DD, it greatly increased her independence, gave her a bit of a breather to actually think about what she wanted to study in college, and in her case resulted in absolute fluency in one language and becoming adept in a new language she was interested in learning. Now back at college she is thriving academically and socially, and her experiences did inform course selection and likely her major. [/quote]
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