Santa Fe Prep Grad Takes Gap Year with NOLS

On the other end of the spectrum, some students still feel that they are not ready for college upon graduating from high school and prefer to take a gap year between high school and college, sometimes as a way to decompress from the years of coursework or to pursue what they love outside of school. With a gap year, students tend to learn and explore aspects of the world, and themselves. In its own way, a gap year can help prepare a student for college.

Case in point: Graham Sides, a Santa Fe Prep graduate, took a gap year between high school and college and participated in a National Outdoor Leadership School course in Utah and Wyoming. He became certified as an emergency medical technician and is trained to handle swift-water and rock rescue situations, which could help when it’s time for him to go to college. Sides loves the outdoors, so it was a great opportunity for him to expand his passions outside the classroom and to figure out what he wanted to pursue in his college career.

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