While many premedical students are eager to get started on their medical education, more students are taking a gap year before matriculating into medical school. The traditional pathway to becoming a ...

Duke admissions officials say students who take a year off after high school are more mature and ready for the rigors of college In June 2021, Montana Lee graduated from high school completely ...

“I would definitely recommend a gap year to anyone," Sydney Zarsadias told Newsweek.

When Luca Gwathmey ’28 first stepped foot on campus last year, 12 of the 18 members of his Bruno Leader group happened to be fellow gap-year students. “Off the bat, we had a shared maturity and life ...

Hridiza Roy ’25 (individualized program, computer science) made building a business in the entertainment industry part of her college education. Roy followed a summer internship at Disney Studios in ...

Fewer high school seniors enrolled in college this fall than a year ago. Part of that may be due to the "demographic cliff," meaning the population of potential college students is dropping, or the ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives.