Details
- Listing Type: Gap Year Programs
- Program Delivery: Day
- Destinations: United States
- Credit Awarded: None
- Program Length: Academic Year
- Start Month: July, August
- Category: Community Service
- Selective: No
- Gender: Coed
- Ages: 18, 19+, 19
- Housing: Not Available
- Financial Aid: Grants/Scholarships, Other
Testimonials(5)
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"The City Year experience has been invaluable in helping my daughter define her career interests and academic path. She has identified human service policy as the academic major that will help her achieve the changes that are needed in our schools, social programs, and the juvenile justice system. How amazing that she knows this as she enters college as a freshman in the fall! So many students have no idea about their chosen career until they have graduated college and are on the job." MEREDITH MCGEHEE, MOTHER OF A SAN ANTONIO '15 ALUMNA
- Anita Lovaincy - November 16, 2020 -
"At an age when most peers enter college dormitories, Peter and his roommate rented an apartment. They had to pay bills, feed themselves and get to work on time. It was exciting and challenging, and not always easy. But Peter managed. We are as proud of his development here as his determination to teach." MR. AND MRS. JOHN KRAFT, PARENTS OF A CHICAGO '15 ALUMNUS
- Anita Lovaincy - November 16, 2020 -
"My experience with City Year helped me better understand the systematic inequalities in our society and I am able to bring that knowledge into classroom discussions and research. City Year also helped me develop professional skills such as fundraising, teamwork and networking, that are all beneficial to me as a [college] student." MOHAMED ADAN, CITY YEAR SEATTLE '13, STANFORD UNIVERSITY '17
- Anita Lovaincy - November 16, 2020 -
"I encourage my students to consider a gap year. For some, dragging through high school might indicate a need for a fresh start-after they discover who they are and why they're here, they might be more ready to learn what they REALLY want to learn. For others, they have an urge to do a mission, learn a language, scratch an itch...College will always be there, but life changing experiences before adult responsibilities creep in can be life altering!" JOHN B. BOSHOVEN, COORDINATOR OF COLLEGE COUNSELING, WASHTENAW INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, YPSILANTI, MI
- Anita Lovaincy - November 16, 2020 -
"University of Chicago has always been very supportive of students deferring enrollment and taking a year off for good and responsible reasons. Students who take a gap year enrich the dialogue taking place in the classrooms, dining halls and residence halls because of their unique experiences...We look forward to welcoming them to campus!" JAMES NONDORF, DEAN, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
- Anita Lovaincy - November 16, 2020
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