It is unless she is going to use it to have a “real” job so she can learn about the world of work-which I doubt, since she is a rich, spoiled kid. I was a rural working class kid-we only used “gap” time to work full time to make enough money to pay for college, then drop to part-time work once we started-but rich kids used gap years to tour Europe, or live abroad, absorbing “culture” (partying) on the parents’ dime...
Sometimes, you’d have a “gap” semester or two out of college to work full time again if you were running short of funds-borrowing funds was not an option...
And isn’t ‘gap year’ a British term?
Trying so hard to be upscale...