<p>One thing that everyone who wants to study abroad should do is look at a particular school’s policy about using their own financial aid to travel abroad. Hopeful, I know that you got a merit scholarship to Denison. Their website says that their merit scholarships can only be used for their own two programs-- a science semester and a program in Germany, taught in German. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.denison.edu/academics/offcampus/getting_started_general_concer.html[/url]”>http://www.denison.edu/academics/offcampus/getting_started_general_concer.html</a></p>
<p>"merit based aid may not be applied to off-campus study except in the case of a Denison-sponsored program (Oak Ridge Science Semester and the Justus-Liebig-Universit</p>