If you want to take a year off before college, fine. Get a job!
gap year = go to Europe and experience how marvelous their welfare state is, then come back and incorporate that into your politics here.
Actually not really. Scholarships and academic aid is heavily leaned towards the well off who don’t really need it. Meanwhile poorer students subsidies said generous benefits with confiscatory interest rates on their loans.
As for the gap year, I think it’s a great idea for those who earn their way into that school. In fact all students should get such a great benefit for what universities charge these days.
What an absolute load of crap. I am all for someone taking time off before going to college to do other things, but to have colleges footing the bill for it, which means the PARENTS (via higher tuitions) and eventually all of us TAXPAYERS because we all know the government is just going to rubber-stamp as okay all defaults on student loans.
This burns me up.
Taking a year off (more like 15 months) between HS and college is a damn sure way to land yourself in a bunch of pre-type and remedial classes if you ever do start classes. If you’re lucky, adds another semester, not so fortunate maybe 2 semesters; the university will make the money back.