College Admissions Counseling Blog

I wrote last summer about "Gap Year" programs where high school students take a year off before their freshman year of college. Such programs are fairly common in Europe but not well known in the United States. There is a good article about such programs and a college fair for gap year programs recently held in the Chicago area.

Gap year programs are not for everyone but for the student that feels that they are not quite ready to head to college or for the stressed out student, they can make a good option.