Definitions for gap year
gap year

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1. gap yearnoun

   A yearlong break from study taken by some students on leaving school before starting university, often spent gaining work experience or travelling

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1. Gap year

   A gap year, also known as a sabbatical year, is typically a year-long break before or after college/university during which students engage in various educational and developmental activities, such as travel or some type of regular work. Gap years usually occur between high school and college, or after graduating from college and before entry into graduate school. Students undertaking a gap year might, for example, take advanced courses in mathematics or language studies, learn a trade, study art, volunteer, travel, take internships, play sports, or participate in cultural exchanges. Studies indicate that students who take a gap year perform better academically than those who do not, however, many parents worry that their children will defer continuation of their education. Many students have even decided against going to university after taking time to reflect during their gap year.

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1. Gap year

   A gap year is time out to travel between life stages. It is also known as a sabbatical, time off, time out and a year out, referring to a period of time in which people disengage from curricular education and/or work and undertake activities such as traveling, volunteering or working abroad. In the field of college applications, a gap-year is a year taken between high school and college. During this gap-year, students engage in extra-academic and non-academic courses, language studies, volunteer work, travel, internships, sports and more, all for the purpose of improving themselves and their resumes before going to college. These academic gap-years are also called Pathways, Prep-Year and Bridge-Year.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gap year in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gap year in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of gap year in a Sentence

1. Jillian Cain:

   I was talking to my mom and said,' Why don't I just take a gap year ? I don't see the point in paying this college tuition if I'm not getting all of the benefits of it,'.

2. Lisa Bianchi Merritt:

   Why not just take a gap year or enroll in a community college where I could get the same education essentially for way less of a price.

3. Lisa Bianchi Merritt:

   I've had probably three students reach out and say,' I really don't want to start my college experience from my couch,' as more colleges become more transparent about the likelihood of that, I think that's going to really spur a lot of kids to want to seriously consider a gap year.

4. Anya Henry:

   That way I could get a gap year experience while still going to class.

5. Lori Osterberg:

   We're calling it our gap year. We're here for now, with the possibility of extending throughout her college career, we're taking it one year at a time.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gap_Year
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_Year
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=gap year