Gap Year

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 SENIORS:A week late, but a little Olympic-themed reading:  10 Ways to Have a Gold Medal Senior Year JUNIORS:Haven't visited campuses yet or nervous to begin?  Practice close to home.NEWS:For the first time, I will accept credit card payments at the College Preparatory Invitational Horse Show in March.  These payments will be completely secure and swiped via Square.Credit card payments will be available on my web site later this spring through a secured and encrypted web page.  Thanks for your patience all those who have diligently paid through checks in the mail up to this point!PARENTS:The New York Times had an interesting piece on college roommates and your child this week.  Read it here.From the blog:I’ve touched many times before upon the subject of becoming a professional horse person and I suppose it’s only fair to preface this entry by saying that this will be yet another.  But there’s a bit of a twist to this week’s entry and I hope that students who are strongly considering this career path will value this latest addition.I took part in on a higher education webinar last week and the conversation turned at one point to gap years and how they’ve changed recently.  (For those who’ve heard the term but don’t know exactly what it means, a gap year is a one-year time period during which recent high school students delay starting college in order to dedicate a year to exploration and/or service.  These students then enter college one year later than their peers.)Read More