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[quote=Anonymous]My story is a little different because I took a gap year (if that's what you can even call it) between college and grad school. I had deferred admission.  I went to a program in England where I worked in Manchester Prison's volunteer center both inside and outside the prison for 4 days, worked at a nursing home for the deaf for 1 day, and also volunteered time to tutor kids in reading who had hearing-impaired parents.

The only thing I paid for was my airfare; the program provided group housing and a very small weekly stipend. My flatmates were another American who'd graduated college too and was choosing between med school and grad school, 3 English kids who had just finished their A levels and were deciding what to do next (two went to university the year after and the third worked for several more years before going to nursing school), and a woman from Slovakia, who  previously was an au pair in England.

None of it was funded by my parents. If my children wanted to do something similar, I would be happy.[/quote]

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