DeLuca did not pinpoint whether these students voluntarily started college late, but at the very least, her work indicates that taking a gap year doesn't guarantee success.
Of course, a gap year is not for everyone.
If you know someone who's going away on holiday or on a gap year, buy a journal and give it to them as a present.
Even if a gap year does not lead to a job offer and an obvious career track, it can light a spark that ends up burning in a different way many years later.
One in four over-55s has either been on a gap year in the last five years or is planning to take one, according to a report.
Many students are believed to be abandoning their plans for a gap year to move straight into higher education.
I'm planning to take a gap year and go backpacking in India.
And for those who now had children, how would they react if their offspring wanted to take a gap year?
A journey along Australia's east coast and southeast Asia might read like a backpacker's itinerary; a student on a gap year of self-discovery before taking the plunge into 'real life'.
The point of a gap year is that it should be the time when the school leaver gets to do the thing that he or she fancies.
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