Is a year off before entrance allowed?

Colleges & Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>If you get accepted, does Harvard allow the student to take a year off after high school before entering the college?</p>

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<p>If you have a viable reason, then yes.</p>

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<p>yes. each year, around 70 students take a year off before entering Harvard, whether they have been admitted to the class to which they applied, or the class a year after that one.</p>

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<p>Harvard encourages a purposeful "gap year."</p>

<p>Every incoming freshman is sent this letter from former Dean Harry Lewis:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.college.harvard.edu/deans_office/dean_lewis/slow_down.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.college.harvard.edu/deans_office/dean_lewis/slow_down.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>