Gap Year Is Increasing In Popularity Among Stressed Out Freshmen

A growing number of high-achieving students who are contemplating a year off before college — known as a gap year — do so as a release from mounting pressures to gain admittance to top colleges. The transition from high school to college is not what it used to be. Freshmen show up on campus with stress from the admissions chase and parents hovering a text-message away. For them, the gap year is a way to reclaim what has been lost. Mindful of those strains, schools are promoting gap years more aggressively. Read more at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/fashion/09gap.html?ex=1362718800&en=124f88a8235723db&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss