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Category: Gap Years

How to Choose the Perfect Gap Year

Posted January 22, 2016, 2:00 pm by Dana Elmore

Chances are you’ve heard and read plenty of information about gap years. Perhaps you want to consider spending a year or semester outside of a traditional classroom before college but...

Study Abroad in High School? Why I Took the Plunge.

Posted December 17, 2015, 2:00 pm by Melanie Biles

Going to France was always going to be a part of my life. When I was 14, my friend Kira’s father told us over dinner about when he had studied...

Make the Most of Your Gap Year with a D.C. Internship

Posted October 30, 2015, 12:00 pm by The Experts at TeenLife

Oonagh Cavanagh grew up in a small Vermont town, hiking, camping, skiing, and loving anything that had to do with the outdoors. So when she was looking for a gap...

Four Lessons for Teens Camping in the Outdoors

Four Lessons You Learn Camping in the Outdoors

Posted July 28, 2015, 12:00 pm by Casey Adams

Camping means no phone. It means no bed, no TV and, probably, no shower. At first pass, camping doesn’t seem comfortable or fun. So why bother packing up and heading...

To Gap or Not to Gap

Posted March 13, 2015, 2:00 pm by Ginger Fay

I have been applying to college for 20 years. Don’t worry—I’m not bad at it (I did get in the first time around!), I just like working with students going...

Taking a Break without Breaking the Bank

Posted February 10, 2015, 3:00 pm by Ginger Fay

When I was in high school, I thought a gap year—a magical interim year spent investigating something or everything before heading off to college—was an opportunity reserved for the über...

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