Why a Gap Year Program?
For a variety of reasons, a number of high school seniors find themselves questioning if they’re ready for the challenges of college, even if they’ve already been accepted. For some, the intuition they are insufficiently prepared, either academically or socially and emotionally, may be quite appropriate. Other students, struggling with some confluence of social and emotional immaturity, organizational issues, and other ‘executive function’ challenges, may not have the self-monitoring skills to assess their readiness to move on. Instead, it may be concerned parents, school officials, or therapists who recognize that a college acceptance letter does not mean that a student would be well-served by beginning college studies in the school year immediately following high school graduation. Independent schools with a philosophy of inclusion, student-centered curricula, personalized academic support, and a tolerance for delayed social and emotional growth, may be able to identify a number of s
