The advantages of taking a gap year
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Students who take a so-called "gap year" between graduating high school and heading to college, have the potential to experience amazing opportunities.
Those opportunities come at a cost, which may be prohibitive to lower income families or to individuals who may be the first in their families to go to college.
MPR News host Kerri Miller weighs the benefits and disadvantages of taking a gap year with Ethan Knight, Executive Director of the American Gap Association and with Matt Struckmeyer, Director of College Counseling at Laguna Blanca School in Santa Barbara.
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