4- YOU WON'T HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE TO DO IT

Because when you are going to start university, you are going to be conctentrated 100%. You are going to decide and preparate your life. Then you are going to be an adult, and who knows, get married and have childre. Also, if you don't have a clear idea of what you are going to do next. Students who have grown up in a structures environment with a clearly social, athletic and academic goals, if they take a gap year this will give them valuable personal freedom.