<p>I’ve told all my interviewers so far that I plan on taking a gap year, and all were adamantly supportive of the venture. One commented it was very “smart,” and another said he wished he’d done that out of high school.
However, I have very definitive plans for a gap year. Whether or not writing qualifies as that, I don’t know (but I don’t know it doesn’t, either!).
I think it’s something that top universities recommend in general-- I definitely disagree with the idea that they want students clamoring to immediately go the next year. Not that they value them any less, but I think they approve of gap years when it’s in a student’s best self-developmental interest.</p>