<p>Hi guys! I'm currently a senior in high school and decided early that I'm going to take a gap year. </p>
<p>Are there people on this forum who've already taken a gap year or are contemplating one?
I'd love to hear what you've done or intend to do!</p>
<p>I think I should be in contact with you. I have too decided to take a gap year.</p>
<p>I am also considering a gap year. I’m a current senior.</p>
<p>@archnerd @TechieCSG @mak1702 ,</p>
<p>What do y’all plan on doing during the gap year? Why have you decided to take it?</p>
<p>I will do an internship and flourish my startup @mumbai98</p>
<p>Great! @mak1702 can you provide more information about your start-up?</p>
<p>Also, how did you manage to get an internship? I am a 11th grader and an internship will help me I suppose.</p>
Well I go to an Army Public School, so basically got an Internship at Signals…!!!
Hey guys! So I’m going to work for an NGO and help them with marketing and managing social media. I’m also looking for internships in corporate firms rn. Internships with NGOs are usually easier to get, I believe. I’d like to blend a lot of traveling into the whole plan, so I’ll take up work in different parts of India to do something productive while having fun. I might go to Australia and New Zealand if everything works out. I’m taking a gap year because I can’t decide if I should stay in India or go to US. Also because I need to figure out a couple of other things before I head to college. I don’t feel driven enough to go to college yet. Gap year seems like the best thing for me, and gladly, I have parents who think of gap year as a waste of time. They just want me to do productive things.
31-12-2014, I am from India and currently in class studying in class 12th and will be completing my class 12th by end of April 2015. I really really really want to go to the top Universities of US, namely, MIT, Harvard, Caltech and Princeton. But now I feel that I have done a really blunder mistake. I will be taking my SAT exam for the first time on 24th January 2014, and I have NOT applied to any of the universities yet(because the deadline is 1st January for appying to Universities). But my grades are really very good(90-100),I am always in the top 5 ranks of my class, I have participated in many olympiads, exams, school projects. I have bought the college board book for SAT and have practised it fairly well. And from my judgement of my own performance I think that I would be able to perform really well on test and since my parents have already enrolled me in coaching programs for IIT I am sure that I can easily score excellent scores in SAT Subject test. But my problem is that somehow I have missed the opportunity to apply to universities. I am really disturbed and confused right now,and because of my such good performance in school and other fields my parents are telling me to concentrate on exams like IIT. But it is my dream to get into those universities. I just love Physics and I want to do research in Particle Physics and Quantum Field Theory. Please help me. I have many questions in my mind:
1)Should I take a Gap Year, because now feel that’s the only choice I’m left with? I have read on web that a Gap Year is only applicable to US students, Is It TRUE? Will it affect my application in any way? Should I enrol myself in any Gap Year Program, because I have read on web that only a really good Gap Year Program would ensure my application being accepted when I would apply to university the next time? What can I do in my Gap Year to improve my application and performance in test, and how should I do it?
2)How can apply I for spring season in next year? Would it be beneficial in any way? Should I prefer taking a FULL GAP YEAR instead of applying to college in mid-way for spring? Would applying for spring semester result in any kind of loss to some of the courses which I would not be able to take and the fall semester students can take? Does this affect in my job placements or my masters degree program?
3)If I want to improve my performance in co-curricular activities, then how can I do it, because I’m on verge of completing my class 12th and nowadays there are almost no activities going on in school because everybody is busy and indulged in preparing for their board and engineering exams? How can I apply for internships? Would it affect my application significantly in any way?
4)From where can I get the Information about financial aid to international students, student loans, scholarships? Is better to take student loan from US or from India, keepin in mind the HIGH interest rates of Indian Banks comapred to those of US? Does taking loans from US require any special forms to be filled or any special needs are to be met, should I be having any representative in US who is a permanent resident in US(because in that case I have one of my cousin brother who is living there)? What all legal papers are needed to be filled to apply for finnacial aid? Are there any exams available for scholarships? How can I take them? Where can I get more information about them?
5)At last after doing all this would it ensure my application being accepted in my dream Universities? How can I contact counsellors form this site?
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