October 7, 2012
Gap Year: The Growing Appeal of Deferring College Enrollment
In September, Amy Huynh, a recent high school graduate who was accepted to Colby College in Maine, visited some of her childhood friends during move-in weekend at UCLA. They’re newly minted freshmen, ready to embark on an exciting college career. But Huynh is beginning a different adventure: instead of attending Colby, she’s mentoring middle schoolers in southern Los Angeles for a year.
“A lot of people did not agree with what I was doing,” Huynh says of her decision to defer college enrollment. “College is getting so expensive now, so I said, Why not? College isn’t going anywhere.”
Huynh is a corps member in City Year, a service organization that places young people age 17 to 24 in urban schools to work with teachers and mentor students. She’s also one of the thousands of members of the high school class of 2012 who chose to take a break from school — a so-called gap year — instead of immediately enrolling in college.
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In an attempt to simplify the next move, I'm trying to get rid of some of my media collection. Amazon will take almost anything and will give you a shipping label, too. They don't pay a ton for most stuff, but at least it's going to get used. Bonus: They pay you in Amazon gift cards deposited directly into your account.
In an attempt to simplify the next move, I'm trying to get rid of some of my media collection. Amazon will take almost anything and will give you a shipping label, too. They don't pay a ton for most stuff, but at least it's going to get used. Bonus: They pay you in Amazon gift cards deposited directly into your account.
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