Gap Years—Reply

In Reply We appreciate the perspective of the Letter focusing on gap years for college athletes and acknowledge the challenges of training as a member of a varsity team while maintaining one's commitment to a rigorous premedical course load.The notion, however, that this group is an exception to the warnings we posted about pursuing gap years 1 fails to acknowledge a robust literature on the favorable views of medical school admission committees for this applicant group.Becoming a physician is hard intellectually, physically, and emotionally.One is required to master a large quantity of