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Colleges Allowing Students to Defer Enrollment with Gap Year

Although most college-bound high school seniors are anxiously awaiting admissions decisions from the schools to which they applied, some students have already decided to take a break between their high school graduation and their freshman year of college. Not a summer vacation— a gap year.

Gap years have been common—almost expected—in Europe and Australia for decades, and the trend is slowly starting to grow in the United States. A recent survey from the Higher Education Research Inst…