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Gap Year Students Gap Year Students
The Semester at Sea study-abroad experience is now available to gap year students. Get a taste for the entire world as you explore 8-12 international ports and communities, attend classes on global topics with students from around the country, take part in service projects and cross-cultural opportunities in port, and head back to college with a defined sense of the world.
Fall 2010 voyage - Around the World (space available)
Spring 2011 voyage - Around the World (now accepting applications)
May 2011 voyage - Engineering a New Tomorrow (Central America)
Application requirements for students with deferred admission to a degree-granting program at an accredited college or university:
- Provide proof of admission at an accredited college/university.
- Provide proof of exceptional performance at the high-school level, including as many of the following as possible:
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- • SAT or ACT score report
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- • AP test score reports
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- • Teacher recommendation(s)
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- • Graded academic writing sample
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- • Good academic and judicial standing
- Submit a 300-500 word essay that responds to one of these two questions:
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- • How will SAS create or enhance your personal global perspective?
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- • What are your academic goals, and how will SAS help you to achieve them?
- Submit a statement of academic purpose to address a compelling academic rationale for participating in SAS as a gap year student, specifically:
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- • Why will the coursework credit gained on Semester at Sea be instrumental to your academic goals?
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- • Why do you want to participate in a Semester at Sea voyage at this time in your academic career?
