Exchange Student as a HS Senior

2sonmama
Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:54:03 +0000

My son was a sophomore in high school last year and planned to spend what would have been his senior year abroad. He applied for early graduation, and is now classified as a senior. With a little luck and work, he has enough credits to graduate a full year early (he will still have to take English 12 next summer). He should walk graduation this spring and hopes to leave late summer (after summer school) for a Rotary Youth Exchange.

He has applied for college already, with the idea that he will defer the enrollment one year. That way we don’t have to deal with testing and applications while he is abroad. He hopes to hear next month on both his college admission and his Rotary acceptance.

Don’t know if it would work out for your child to do the same (we had to do some fancy footwork early last summer), but perhaps she can get the critical classes before she leaves, get her testing done next spring, then start the applications in the summer.

Good luck!