City year? Anyone?

sceamom
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:52:32 +0000

This is my first time posting on CC though have been lurking for quite some time. I have found the information and your collective experience invaluable.

My question- Does anyone have any experience with City Year? My daughter is considering it as a “gap year” possibility. She was either rejected or waitlisted to the schools she wished to go to next year. So rather than simply “settle” for the schools into which she was accepted, she would rather do something productive and meaningful, perhaps take her standardized tests again (they were not what she hoped they would be the first time) and re-apply to her preferred schools next year.

In anyone’s experience do colleges frown on this, encourage it, what? Would this experience increase her chances anywhere or put her at a disadvantage?

She is my first to go through this grueling college applications process so we are all new to it.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.