Why Take a Gap Year?

Common Reasons:

• Gain hands-on life experience

• Find out more about yourself

• Clarify personal interests, course of study, career path

• Practice professional and personal development skills

• Adventure! To try something challenging!

• Build meaningful relationships

• Enter college more focused, mature, and passionate about completing course of study

• Learn about service, place, and global issues

• Mentorship

Interesting Facts:

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98% of colleges and universities accept deferrals for planned Gap Years and many schools encourage it, including Harvard, Princeton, and Colorado College.

A majority of students who take a Gap Year graduate in four years rather than five or more. If you think a Gap Year is expensive, imagine six years of college tuition.

More than 90% of students who do a structured Gap Year enroll in university within one year of their “time-off.”

Evidence Based Research:

Students who take a Gap Year often graduate with higher GPAs than their peers and are more satisfied with their careers. Read more.

The Big List of Practical & Professional Skills You will Learn:

UNIVERSAL WORK SKILLS

Research Project management Budgeting Interviewing

Web & Digital Communications Time Management

Critical Thinking Adaptability Personal Practices for Resiliency

Creative Arts Meditation Journaling Next Systems Ideas

Whole System Design Vocabulary of Possibility

UNIVERSAL LIFE SKILLS

Financial Literacy & Stewardship Home Economics Design-Build//Basic Carpentry

Navigate Crisis Access Public Support Grow Organic Food Civic Engagement

Interpersonal Communications

IBM STUDY ON SOFT SKILLS AND EMPLOYABILITY

WHAT YOU’LL GRADUATE KNOWING AKA OUTCOMES

CURRICULUM