Without giving a ton of thought to this, we have told our children to take every opportunity they have to travel (abroad) over breaks during high school, and we fully support travel abroad during the school year in college. Unless a travel abroad experience is fully integrated into a boarding school (e.g. St George’s and Geronimo), I think it’s better to hold off on semester travel until college. Of the few friends I had at BS who did a semester abroad/away, it was very difficult for them to reacclimate. In college the transitions seemed much easier since a larger amount of students chose to study abroad.
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