May 14, 2015

Karen Buttenbaum Interviewed by USNWR on the “gap year”

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For the record we (and many law admissions officers we know) don’t necessarily agree with the terminology “gap” — which originated to describe the space between a year off before going to undergraduate. But semantics be damned, here is the article.

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