When students get to college, they are always amazed by the number of students that have started their own businesses in high school. Some of these businesses are truly amazing, beyond what adults could have started, while others are small businesses that are nonetheless impressive in that a highschooler started it. Just within our Versed advisor families, we have had a student that started an organization to teach music to underprivileged children - he organized student musicians in his school to provide free lessons, procured instrument donations from various sources, raised funding and…

By Virginia Young

The gap year has always been a mystery to me. When I was growing up, the beaten path was to attend college immediately after high school graduation. Over the past few years, I’ve been hearing from more and more friends and acquaintances that their teens are taking gap years before college. As it turns out, American students are just discovering what European students have been doing for ages. Since I have teens at home, I decided to dig deeper to find out what all of the buzz was about. The stories these parents shared with me opened my eyes to the benefits of a…