This existed way back in the early 90s! My friends did it.
Also, there was always the option to do any kind of study abroad - semester or year - depending on the program. I did a year abroad and it was the best experience -
FYI, I’m a professor, and it is much less typical for kids to do a whole year abroad now, which is a bummer, but as long as you plan and are willing to give up something, like a sport, anyone can pull it off for a semester.
Maybe most but not all. Younger S’ major was very rigid. They had the entire 4 years mapped where you MUST take certain classes in the semester specified. You couldn’t work ahead or double up. Only way to go abroad was for the summer. He did sign up twice and had internships working for a professional soccer club in Spain. But both times it was cancelled due to Covid.
I did the Syracuse London Center 1989 in Spring. Highlight was seeing Eric Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall with Phil Collins on drums - I think I was more excited for him than Clapton. He sang Easy Lover.
Low point - the education. It wasn’t bad but Syracuse had its own center. I lived with and went to school with other Syracuse students so I wasn’t immersed in society.
If I had to do it again, I’d find a foreign school vs my own school’s center.
2 of my children chose to do a full year abroad, the third has less than zero interest in study abroad in any form. Nature v nurture.
Edited to add: Schools are becoming more and more reluctant to allow students to use their financial aid to fund a full year abroad. D20’s school changed their policy this past year and will now only fund a semester of study abroad, not a full year. If students want to do a full year, the second semester is on the students. I expect more changes like that will occur as funding shortfalls become more widespread.
Have you looked into Georgia Tech? They have a campus in Metz, France and welcome students from other universities. Georgia Tech-Europe
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Our kid is going abroad in January. Engineering. It is hard for them to leave their school for a semester but we think it will be amazing! We hope to visit - government better be open by then :(.
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We impulse* bought a 3rd car this week that D24 will take back to school with her after thanksgiving - anything I should consider with sending a car off with a student? (Insurance etc is all set, just any practical concerns?)
*If by ‘impulse’ you mean “two maximizers who had established criteria a year ago of ‘if a decent older subaru pops up for sale by someone we know and trust, that would be the ideal 3rd car situation and we should jump on it’,’ anyway. I am glad that it worked out we could swing it, and also glad she didn’t have one until now - a car last year would’ve been used to escape, and this year it will be used to engage, she learned how to travel independently by bus and train, but I will kind of miss my whirlwind down and back trips to pick her up for breaks! (and IKEA meatballs…)
Don’t send her off without a good air pump for the tires! This can prevent a young person being stranded on the highway–in all instances but a total blowout. Also–a good tire gauge (not the old crappy type). 
Yes, I am getting her one of those air inflators (and an old crappy type, too, in case the batteries die in a better one!) Thanksgiving is going to be reviewing all the car maintenance stuff we have gone over before, but she never really had to worry about, since she has never been the primary driver/ away from home that long with a car. Tires, oil, washer fluid, etc.
Be sure she has parking lined up at the school or by any off-campus building where she is living. D needed to buy a parking pass and was assigned a lot for the car when she lived on campus.
Also, be sure car inspections will not expire when she is away.
I recommend putting title to the car in her name only. If you own the car, you may be liable for any accidents caused by the car.
For now, it’s our car that she gets to use (she is on our insurance and we have full coverage) - we will look into doing that when she is fully out of the house. (It was a jump from ‘discount for having a far away student’ to ‘student is primary driver of a car!’)
We still have our 2007 Honda Odyssey which can be had for cheap! Operator standing by for your best offer.
Last ideas: Have your D ask around and get the name(s) of reputable gas/service stations near campus (don’t wait for an emergency). Also if you have AAA be sure to get a card in her name (small extra fee).
I miss my 05 Odyssey every day - used a friend’s modern one to move her down last and this year (and my friend driving my Outback was ready to trade in her van for that ‘small’ car! Grass is always greener….)
Quiet on this thread!
D24 is nose to the grindstone (allegedly) preparing for another round of midterm exams. As I mentioned upthread, the last round did not go so well. I think she got really rattled that her normal process for preparing (procrastinate and then try to cram at the last minute) –which worked fine in HS and even last year where much of the material was a repeat of the AP course content from HS–didn’t work this time (go figure!) and she’s been doing a lot more work along the way now. Hoping for a better outcome this time.
She is also considering serving a position on the e-board of her sorority. This is huge, for her. Long time posters on this thread know that I could never, ever get her to be involved in extra curriculars all through HS. So the fact that she joined a sorority in the first place is atypical of her, never mind the shock of her putting herself out there to go for a leadership role. I’m really proud of her.
Finally, she is scheduled to fly home for Tgiving the Tuesday before (how I wish her school had the whole week off like so many seem to). Of course, with all of the flight chaos, we are concerned about it happening at all. Her flight home is a 6am departure, so hopefully that one will not get cancelled. Returning to school is a different story, I’m fully expecting delays and chaos. Worst case scenario is that one of us will make the 6 hour drive to get her or bring her back, but no one is too eager to be on the road that week.