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March 24, 2014

College offers to pay students to take year off

  • The aim is to remove financial barriers that can keep cash-strapped students from exploring before jumping into college.
  • By PAIGE SUTHERLAND
    Associated Press

    MEDFORD, Mass. — Colleges are paying students to take a year off after high school to travel, volunteer or do internships so that students of all income brackets can benefit from “gap years.”

    A new program at Tufts University and existing ones at a handful of other schools aim to remove the financial barriers that can keep cash-strapped students from exploring different communities and challenge their comfort zones before jumping right into college.


     
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