How to Apply for a Gap Year Travel?
November 5th, 2008 Posted in Gap Year Application
Are you wondering on how to apply or start your gap year travel? What are the necessary requirements in applying for a gap year? Who can help you in the application process?
Gap year applications take time to process and organize travel details. Application processes vary per agency to agency, university to university and country per country. Right after my enrolment for senior year, I went to the Guidance Counseling Office to ask for information on how to apply for gap year travel. The Guidance counselors usually assist students who would take a gap year.
I was handed a list of agency to contact (though some Guidance Office directly handle such inquiries) in which I researched on the internet. Though some of my friends applied on an agency not referred by the school but by family members who went first for gap year.
I was asked to fill or submit form and the following documents:
- a. Recommendations from people who know you.
- b. Transcript of Records from the school.
- c. Application Form
I was then scheduled for an interview. I was asked to complete the following requirements:
- d. Statement of Physical condition of the applicant from a physician
- e. Housing Questionnaire
- f. Personal Pictures and Letter to be given to the host family.
- g. Passport Photocopy
- h. Emergency Contact List
- i. Contract
- j. Insurance
- k. Program Deposit
- l. Housing Waiver
Now, I reminisced the day I finished all of these documents.
I was excited as I carry my papers and purposely stride towards the open door of the agency building I had chosen to help me with my gap year next year. I was still a senior student this school year and I would definitely grab a gap year right after my graduation.
Now, prepared the important documents which had been a big fuss with my family from my younger siblings to my older brothers to my parents and a whole lot of our relatives all over Europe; now finally, I am handing it in to the agency in-charge with great relief and a plastered smile on my face.
The decision to take on a gap year is not an easy one for me. How about to you? What have you been through before your take off for a gap year? How many soul searching night did you have finally say, “Yes” to gap year?