Parents

Launch Your Kid Well

Grounded in faith. Equipped to lead. Clear on who they’re becoming.

The traditional path is failing students and costing families.

52%

of graduates are underemployed one year after college
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York

61%

would choose a different major if they could do it again
- Strada Education Foundation

The Gap Year Works

That’s why Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and hundreds of other schools have started recommending their admitted students take a gap year before coming to campus.

The status quo is costing families hundreds of thousands of dollars by forcing students to commit to a direction before they know who they are. They pick a major under pressure. They spend four years going through the motions. They graduate with a degree and still have no clear direction for their life.

On the other hand, students who take an intentional gap year not only outperform their peers academically, but also have better job prospects after college and report being more fulfilled in their life.

We want you to launch your student with confidence that they are taking the right next step (whether it’s college or something else!) - and and that requires a fundamentally different approach.

What You'll Learn

LeapYear is a 9-month leadership accelerator for high school graduates, based in Austin, Texas. We do three things.

Explore the Program

We help students test real career paths

Your student builds a portfolio of real work through professional experiments and comes out the other side knowing which direction fits and why.

We develop leaders

Decision-making. Executive functioning. The ability to hold yourself to a high standard and follow through. The stuff you've been wanting to see in your kid — we help cultivate it, in a structured environment with clear goals and real practice.

We ground everything in faith

Integrated spiritual formation. Your student will wrestle with the questions that matter most — who am I, what is my life for, what is my role in God's story — and they'll build practices that deepen faith and make it their own.

What Your Student Walks Away With

A calling statement — their tested, self-determined answer to the question: What is my role in God's mission?

A portfolio of professional work that is better than what most job seekers have today.

A method of discernment they will use for the rest of their lives. Not just a direction — a way of making decisions when the road shifts underneath them.

A professional network stronger than what most college graduates build in four years.

A demonstrated ability to lead and create community.

One Year From Now

Most College Sophomores

Leap Year Graduates

More confused about what to study than when they started

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Clear on who they want to become and why

A friend group that came together by proximity

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A strong professional network stronger than most college graduates

Shaped by whatever campus culture they landed in

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Grounded in habits and practices that deepen their faith

A few credits toward “undecided”

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A portfolio of work that opens doors

No framework for when the plan falls apart

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A tested method of discernment for navigating uncertainty

Hoping college will help them figure it out

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Using college to go deeper in a tested direction

Searching for identity

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Grounded identity

Why This Matters to You

You already know what your kid needs. You've probably been saying it for years.

Here is the hard truth every parent of a senior eventually discovers: you’re not the right person to deliver it.

You can say the exact right thing at the exact right time, and it will not land the same way it does coming from someone else. A mentor. A coach. A peer who is on the journey alongside them.

This is not a failure of your parenting. It is a reality of this developmental stage. Your student is wired to be heavily influenced by other voices, but you can have a choice in who those voices will be.

Leap Year provides trusted voices that share your values. We give students exemplars and role models who demonstrate that living a life of faith and thriving professionally are intertwined.

We are here to be your partner in the thing you've been working toward for 18 years — launching your kid into a life that is not just successful, but grounded in the story of God, with the wisdom and courage to navigate whatever comes.

How To Partner With Your Senior On Their Faith and Future

This 15-minute read is a practical guide for the season you're in right now. We built it from everything we've learned — from neuroscience, from coaching, from years of sitting across the table from families in this exact moment. This guide wil help you:

Help shift your relationship
Understand what your student actually needs
How to have open conversations
How to stay close