{"588411":{"#nid":"588411","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Is your Student Thinking of Taking a Gap Year? What is a Bridge Year?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFact: 60 percent of matriculating first year medical students take at least one or more years away from college prior to starting medical school.\u0026nbsp;Often students need to strengthen their application or do something amazing like a fellowship abroad or gain real life experiences, such as teaching in an underserved community. Time after college can strengthen applications for law school or graduate school as well.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Pre-Graduate and Pre-Professional (PGPP) advising team (Pre-Teaching, Pre-Law, Pre-Health, Pre-Graduate and Prestigious Fellowships) will be hosting a workshop on The Bridge Year. PGPP prefers the term \u0026ldquo;Bridge Year\u0026rdquo; as it is important to highlight that students will be building a bridge from their undergraduate career to their professional or graduate program. Explore with your Yellow Jacket what their timeline looks like and how well rounded their application may be. Would a bridge year provide the opportunity to strengthen their application?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EEncourage them to attend our workshop on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, from 11 a.m. - noon in the Bill Moore Student Success Center.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Fact: 60 percent of matriculating first year medical students take at least one or more years away from college prior to starting medical school.\u00a0"}],"uid":"27244","created_gmt":"2017-03-07 19:38:12","changed_gmt":"2017-03-07 19:38:12","author":"Sara Warner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-03-07T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2017-03-07T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1298","name":"Parent and Family Programs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}