While many students head directly to college after graduating from high school, a smaller cohort chooses an alternative: a gap year. What may have previously been seen as an unconventional path ...

What is a bridge or gap year? A year spent working, completing a post-bacc program, volunteering, or doing research prior to applying to medical school, known as a "gap year" or a “bridge year” can be ...

As medical school becomes more competitive, more premedical students are deciding to take a gap year after graduation, largely in an effort to become as competitive an applicant as possible.

Malia is among 127 members of the Class of 2016 at Sidwell Friends, the elite private school in Northwest Washington that she and her sister Sasha attend. Why more teens like Malia Obama are ...