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[…]
This week we are introducing Filip Carnogursky and congratulating him on his admittance into the first cohort of TAP grant recipients! Filip Carnogursky Filip Carnogursky is just a regular ginger guy from a beautiful little village in Slovakia, where, when mentioned the word ‘gap-year’ (which doesn’t even have a direct translation), an avalanche of[…]
Continuing on with our weekly winners we would like to introduce and congratulate April Lawson, recipient of TAP grant and member of cohort 1! April Lawson I spend my days dreaming; I spend my nights living my dreams. Who is April T. Lawson, you ask? Well, I’m still on the journey of figuring that out[…]
Over the next few weeks we are excited to congratulate and introduce the first cohort of TAP grant recipients. Antony Le Antony loves to learn. Just not in a classroom. Rather, he prefers gaining knowledge through experiences–painting murals at schools that promote encouraging and positive messages, organizing events to create care packages for the homeless,[…]
Over the next few weeks we are excited to congratulate and introduce the first cohort of TAP grant recipients. Haby Sondo I am the color pink. I am a crocheter. Ne be Dioula ani Anglais (I am Diola and English. I am box braids and glasses. I am Americanah. I am Sense8. I am laughter.[…]