<p>Speaking as a half-year abroad student in Britain, I think there’s some social advantage to going in the fall if you’re only going half-year. Most of the events that foreign colleges hold for new students to meet each other happen in the fall and by the spring I found that my British classmates were not interested in making new friends thank you very much. </p>
<p>Still, I wouldn’t give up my semester in washington (I did the same program as TD’s D, but not the same year) for anything, so I only had the option of going abroad in the spring, so I had to make do with what was open to me. </p>
<p>One advantage of going in the spring however is that if you love the country and want to travel or try to get a foreign internship, you can slide right into summer abroad without having to pay extra airfare to come home and go back.</p>