The "gap year," a time spent traveling or volunteering to exhaust those feelings of wanderlust after high school, has become widely accepted by a growing number of colleges. Hoping to accommodate ...

After retiring early at 53, Kelly Benthall and her husband spent a year slow-traveling. She's been calling it her "gap year abroad," a do-over decades after the one she never had. What began as a ...

While many students head directly to college after graduating from high school, a smaller cohort chooses an alternative: a gap year. "I would hazard to say that there is at least as much educational ...

Taking a gap year helped me to grow and become surer of myself, to become more multicultural, and to add to my love for learning languages.” — United Planet long-term volunteer alumnus Isabella BOSTON ...

Ruchi Tikoo is currently pursuing Marketing & Strategy at the University of Warwick. She began her study-abroad journey in ...

Chicago Public Schools’ school year ends this week and for many graduating seniors, it means getting things in order to begin their post-high school life, whether that means college, working or even ...

Four Chicago teens from low-income families are getting a chance to do something usually reserved for the wealthy. They will get to take a trip of a lifetime during a gap year after high school — for ...

I was born on the East Coast, and my family moved around a lot. By the time I graduated from high school in Texas, I was the new girl again, surrounded by people who'd known each other since childhood ...