Word: gapping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
According to the admissions office, the school’s willingness to allow students to take a gap year could be correlated with Harvard’s 98 percent graduation rate—one of the highest in the country...
Harvard only requires that students who take a year off before matriculating do not enroll full-time at another institution during the interim period. Students who elect to take the gap year can still apply to other schools, take courses part-time, work, travel, or participate in required military service without losing their place at the College, Fitzsimmons says...
After using much of his gap year to work as a paralegal and an aide to his congressman in Washington D.C.—paying his own rent and cooking his own meals along the way—he says his experience allowed him to experience some of the “larger responsibilities of life...
...parts of the human experience that had been foreign to me,” Zuckerman says of his gap year. “I would recommend [a gap year] to anyone who is considering...
...Angeles native Charles R. Melvoin ’10 spent his gap year visiting 22 developing nations in Africa, Asia, South America, and the South Pacific. He kept records of his travels on his Web site, www.whereischarlie.com...