Jason was interviewed for a piece called “A College Dream Deferred?” by Elizabeth Redden on May 4, 2020 for Inside Higher Ed.
“I think many families are turning almost to desperation, ‘OK, we’ll take a gap year,’” said Jason Sarouhan, a gap year consultant. He said in a typical year, most students who wanted to potentially pursue a gap year would have already given the option serious thought by this point in the spring, but this year, “we are being flooded with inquiries from students who never considered a gap year in their life.”