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What’s a Gap Year? Why you should consider it.

Gap years are becoming increasingly common among high school students in the US, with a recent study finding a peak during the pandemic – 40% of students considered taking a gap year in 2020. Many ideas may come to mind regarding what students might do during this time…

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What’s In A Ranking?

As a prelude to a recent podcast on college rankings as a part of the Revisionist History series, Malcolm Gladwell asks: “How is it that a promotional gimmick from the 1980s turned into a fetish object for American higher education? How do these rankings work? And why does…

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