{"id":14979,"date":"2015-06-26T12:47:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T16:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=14979"},"modified":"2019-07-25T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T18:02:41","slug":"you-take-as-looooong-as-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=14979","title":{"rendered":"you take as looooong as you need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hiya,<br \/>\ni just finished a gap year, and while i do plan to go back i&#8217;ve decided i want to take another gap year. can i pull off a grand total of two gap years in a row or am i in trouble? there doesn&#8217;t seem to be too much info on this, it seems like people come back after a gap year or don&#8217;t but i do want to go back just in another year. help?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;t worry &#8211; once you&#8217;re in the university, you can take as long as you need to complete their degree. people sometimes come back decades later wanting to finish their degree.<\/p>\n<p>all you have to do when you come back is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/current\/course\/rereg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">go to your college\/faculty registrar&#8217;s office, fill out a re-registration form, pay 25 bucks<\/a>, and then you&#8217;re eligible to enrol in courses again!<\/p>\n<p>have fun pretending like austen and fractals are relevant to the real world again!<\/p>\n<p>cheers,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n<p>P.S. keep in mind that if your &#8220;gap year&#8221; is the result of a deferral of admission, then you only have one year off. so that would be the only case where you could take ONLY one year off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hiya, i just finished a gap year, and while i do plan to go back i&#8217;ve decided i want to take another gap year. can i pull off a grand total of two gap years in a row or am i in trouble? 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