Join us for a Gap Year Chat! Wednesday, February 27, 2019 at 6 p.m. EST (3 p.m. PST) Sean and Jenn will be LIVE to discuss: Why taking a Gap Year is a GREAT idea The three types of gap year you can take How to leverage your gap year to build your future The[…]
Sometimes, travel sucks. Sometimes you get to the end of a day and there’s no food. You walk for miles in the rain. The train you were booked on is over booked, or MIA, or filled with loud school girls when all you want is to sleep. Sometimes you’ve got Delhi-belly for days. Sometimes, you[…]
From rowing across the Atlantic Ocean to building a flying car to fighting for political change, there are endless ways to spend a gap year. More students every year are choosing to take a gap year after high school, but some lament it’s difficult to find resources and other students who are also making that choice. Gap Year Exploration Month[…]
Increasingly there is apprehension as a high school student approaches graduation. The costs of higher education are rising. The statistics regarding the number of college graduates who cannot find employment in their fields is disturbing. More and more young people are unsure of what they want to study and are questioning the path forward after[…]
Did you know that the average price of a Gap Year program is $30,000 USD? What would you say if we told you that we’ve found a way to reduce that price by 60%? Now you can take a TAP GAP Year for $4995 a semester! Yes. Really. How is that possible? By combining forces[…]
SASHA: It was noon on a Tuesday in February. I wasn’t in my second hour of an organic chemistry lab. Nor was I napping after a particularly gruesome history midterm. I was whooping while throwing a 100lb tree down a hillside near Mount Everest. To my right was a ten-year-old monk sliding down the mountain[…]
As we’re ramping up with the 2018 Travel Access Project Grant recipients, planning away for their adventures next year, we’re simultaneously winding down with last year’s students who are finishing up their travels. Michelle Zhang recorded this video for us as part of the Gap Year Association Voices Project. As she’s recording it, she’s chugging[…]
When I turned 18, my friend Christian asked me the first thing I was going to do as an “adult”. At that moment, I was at a loss of words. I’m sure he meant something along the nature of getting a tattoo or bungee-jumping, you know, one of those “adventurous” things you tend to do[…]
We are pleased and excited to announce our next TAP grant recipient! This week we share with you a glimpse of who Hương Uyên Bùi is in her own words. Hương Uyên Bùi Dear Mom, I have never made you unsatisfied, at school, I always make my best effort to become the best student[…]
It’s the final week of August and we are pleased to send it off with an introduction and congratulations to Aleah Cordoba for being chosen as a member of the first cohort of TAP grant recipients! Aleah Cordoba Recently, I discovered that when I was three years old, for uncertain reasons, my mother sent[…]