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Tri-State High School Seniors Plan Gap Year
By Jorge Barnes | Dealer staff writer    Wed, Oct 26, 2005
 

According to a recent Enquirer article, an increasing number of local high school seniors plan to take a year's break after graduation, also known as a "gap year."

But while the Enquirer's report consisted of interviewing 3 ambitious students, each planning to spend their gap year either enriching their cultural background or providing community service, most Tri-State students have very different plans for gap year.

The Cincinnati Dealer conducted a scientific poll to uncover the gap year plans of those students not planning to rebuild the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast or practice their cello.

The results:

  • 58% will play Grand Theft Auto.

  • 23% recognize that they have peaked, and will therefore attempt to extend their local celebrity status by either attending high school football games, revving their Camaro outside the school at dismissal time, or washing dishes at the school hangout.

  • 13% will plan to start their own landscaping business, fail, and live with their parents until their mid-30's when their interest is piqued by a Devry commercial shown during Judge Alex.

  • 5% will get pregnant, married, and divorced, in that order.

  • 1% will prepare their resume for college.
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