The value of a gap year with City Year

Become a tutor and mentor during your gap year

Thinking about taking a year off to do something meaningful? Want to learn how a service year or gap year can prepare you for college? As a City Year AmeriCorps member, you’ll spend a year working in schools across one of our 29 locations to provide students with the extra support they need.

You’ll be able to gain unique experience needed to be successful on a college campus. Many colleges and universities will even allow you to defer acceptance to pursue a gap year program. Why not spend a year making a difference in your community and earn money for college in the process?

City Year AmeriCorps members are set up for success

High-school-age AmeriCorps members said their City Year experience helped them to improve their skills in:

• Problem solving
• Decision making
• Leadership
• Verbal communication skills
• Collaboration
• Working with youth
• Successful interpersonal relationship development with people from all walks of life

University partnerships & Educational funding

City Year alumni are offered exclusive scholarships at 120+ higher education institutions, including 18 undergraduate schools. More than 90 percent of these schools offer 25–100 percent tuition scholarships for City Year alumni. Additionally, AmeriCorps members are offered an education award upon completion of their service for use in a variety of fields, both inside and outside of higher education.

Undergraduate programs include:

• Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies (Washington, D.C.)
• Northeastern University College of Professional Studies (Boston, MA)
• Saint Mary’s University (San Antonio, TX)
• Cambridge College (Cambridge, MA)

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