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Harvard is hardly the lone outpost in higher education that recognizes the value of a year off. According to Breimer, the “time out” Harvard recommends has rapidly gained popularity among colleges and guidance counselors alike...
...Harvard’s size works to their advantage,” Breimer says. “All Ivy League schools take the same number of recruited athletes, but if Princeton takes as many recruited athletes as Harvard, by definition they’re taking a higher percentage...
According to Bruce Breimer, a college counselor at the Collegiate School in New York City, some Z-listers are chosen to take a year off because they “need a little seasoning...
...Harvard has no problem turning to alumni and saying, ‘Your progeny didn’t make the cut,’” Breimer says...
...It’s not kids they’re plucking out of obscurity in the bottom half of the class because their parents gave a lot of money,” Breimer says...