After a whirlwind year, New York singer/rapper Laila! has come into her own and is ready to take her show on the road. In the ...

Are you considering taking a gap year or know you are taking a gap year between graduating high school and starting university? A gap year can have an impact on applying to PLC, however, the impact is ...

What is a bridge or gap year? A year spent working, completing a post-bacc program, volunteering, or doing research prior to applying to medical school, known as a "gap year" or a “bridge year” can be ...

While many students head directly to college after graduating from high school, a smaller cohort chooses an alternative: a gap year. What may have previously been seen as an unconventional path ...

Gap years have long been popular in Britain, but haven’t been high on young Americans’ to-do lists. But the current Covid-19 climate has left many wondering if a year off from academics is sti ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Mark C. Perna is a generational expert who covers education & careers. In the wake of COVID-19 and the sweeping changes it has brought to ...

Although there are merits to going straight into graduate or professional schools, there are also some reasons to consider a gap year. After more than two decades of learning, you finally have a ...

As medical school becomes more competitive, more premedical students are deciding to take a gap year after graduation, largely in an effort to become as competitive an applicant as possible.

This was her gap year, and Duke officials would like more students to follow her lead. For high-achieving students, elite universities like Duke are often seen as a finish line of sorts – the thing ...

Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Critics often view gap years as a frivolous or unnecessary delay, arguing that they may lead to a loss of academic momentum or a lack of focus.

The following has been edited for length and clarity. Before I quit to take a gap year, I'd been working since the day I turned 15 — I worked throughout high school. Sometimes I had two jobs.