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Poster Name:
@GapYear

Poster Message:
I also took a gap year after high school. I was very involved and had nice grades, so I still had fair (if not the maximum) amount of houses each day. The only "annoying" part of my experience is that I was considered an upperclassman- because they define this by graduation date. So all throughout recruitment, I had to reexplain to girls that I was not a transfer/sophomore, but a freshman who took some time off to go abroad. I fit in so well with my pledge class, regardless of age, because I am experiencing the same things as them at the same time. I relate more strongly to my pledge class than to the one above me that were really my graduating class. If you do take a year off, I would highly recommend still rushing! Your odds of getting a bid are hardly slimmed down from the experience.