Common App nightmare-UCA
I particularly appreciated Mr. Marcus’s words below:
“I urge 12th-graders to consider a gap year, combining working, going to community college and doing public service. Grow up, I say, and take a year to find your passions and to give back to the taxpayers who have done a lot for you. Parents in high-pressure communities usually dismiss that idea.
I’m secretly hoping for more delays with the Common App.
If kids can’t apply to college now, they can’t go next year. And that means they’ll be forced to take a gap year, which likely will be the best preparation for college of which anyone can dream.”
Does that mean my children will take their gap year to give back to me? Ha!.. because my tax money is not educating them.
Would your student benefit from the “gap year”?
Interesting topic…Lots of good articles to read on the subject.
http://www.interimprograms.com/AboutInterim/Counselors.asp
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2015783,00.html
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