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Should You Take a Gap Year Before College? Ian Frisch © Getty Images The latest pandemic side effect: The year off makes a comeback.
The chairlift rose up and over the trails and ravines, everything covered in snow. I zipped my coat up to my chin, cinched its sleeves over my mittens, and adjusted my goggles. The peaks of Park City stretched out all around me. It was December 2005, six months before my 19th birthday, and I had snagged the first chair of the day just after 7 a.m., the sunlight still low and slanted, a sharp wind coming down the mountain. This wasn’t a holiday vacation, however; I had just moved from my small hometown in Massachusetts to Salt Lake City as part of a gap year between graduating from high school and enrolling at Champlain College, a private liberal arts school in Burlington, Vermont, where I planned to study writing.
Taking a semester or year off before starting college or between semesters has always been an option, but the stakes and options are different this year.Â
A gap year is a broad concept with varying definitions. The UK-based Universities and Colleges Admissions Services suggests a multitude of causes to devote a gap year to, including volunteering, travel, non-collegiate courses, internships and paid employment.
The Gap Year Association (GYA) recorded across-the-board positive results from its 2015 survey of over 1,000 of its alumni, with 97% saying their gap year increased their maturity and helped them develop as a person, 84% saying it helped them acquire skills to be successful in their career and 73% saying it increased their readiness for college.