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For IECs, members of the IECA, HECA, and/or NACAC.   Join the Gap Year Association and become a professionally-informed resource to your students and their parents.  Through affiliating with the GYA you can leverage the membership badge on all of your marketing materials, stay abreast of the most important developments in the gap year space, receive exclusive discounts to the annual gap year conference, and, if you want, work towards becoming an Accredited Professional Gap Year Consultant.

Mark Sklarow, CEO of the IECA, once did an informal survey and found that of those IECs who put a gap year option on their student's 'college list', 50% ended up choosing a gap year option.  It is important to make sure students and parents know about the positive outcomes of a gap year, and we want to support you doing so.

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BENEFITS:

• Use of Gap Year Association Membership Badge for affiliation
• Facilitated speakers for informational sessions on gap years and gap year planning
• Opportunity to speak as an alumni through GYA network
• Free access to emerging research & association brochures, bumper stickers, network, and other publications
• Free access to association job board
• Discounts with association supporters & annual conference

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EXPECTATIONS OF IEC'S WHO DO GAP YEAR COUNSELING:

We do list IECs who do gap year counseling on our Gap Year Counselors web page, however, to be listed there you must:

• Have a web page that talks about your gap year counseling.  If it's important enough to be listed on the GYA website, then it's important enough to have information on your own website.
• Agree to not accept commissions for any gap year placements.  We want to ensure students have the best experience and are paired with the best-fitting program to accomplish their goals.
• Fill out a form (after dues are paid the next web page should show a form template), or, email all relevant information to us so that we can post and include you on the Gap Year Counselors GYA web page.

FEES:

$100/year.  Your voice is one of the most impactful in terms of lifting the eyes of people who haven't considered a gap year, and so we want to support your stories and voice getting out there for the good of the movement.

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