In the times we live in today, more and more students are entering colleges and pursuing higher education. The way society and the economy are structured shows that you cannot afford the cost of living without some type of post-secondary education, which also makes it harder for people to get jobs and enjoy the same luxuries in life of someone who attended college and graduated. The real question we should be asking is whether the United States adopts the same practice as the United Kingdom, whereby students take a year off between high school and college, will they engage in and take advantage of the free time or the time in which Do these students taking off diminish their chances of succeeding in the society we live in today? To begin deciding whether a gap year will be beneficial to a graduate or not, we first need to understand what a gap year is