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A Gap Year After High School: Alternative Tracks to College

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By Jeanne Muchnick

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  • ada obi 11/20/07

    What about life facts for teens?
  • Lacey Fitzpatrick 11/12/07

    I am just going through this now with my twins—one wants to get into Harvard (and has applied there), the other could care less where he goes and is considering a year off. I think it will be really interesting to see how different there are after next year if they each get to fulfill their dreams.
  • Pam Martins 11/11/07

    I begged my parents to let me take a year off after high school—I really wasn’t ready for college and I was miserable there for most of my freshman year. So now that my teen has started looking at schools, I have held out the possibility that she might want to do something else first, like travel or volunteer, and she is considering that.
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