<p>Nowadays, it seems very popular for a college student to take a few weeks/months to go to another country to do “study abroad”. I’m wondering if a recruited athlete allowed to do study abroad? What about intern jobs? I wonder how many athletes are actually able to do study abroad or taking intern jobs.</p>
<p>Several members of the Dartmouth softball tesam studied abroad in Spain last year.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is a little unique with the “D plan” . Students are required to be on campus sophomore summer. That leaves Fall of Jr. year available, esp for the spring sport athletes, to study abroad.</p>
<p>Study abroad opportunities were very important to my daughter, so she discussed study abroad with every coach/school she corresponded with. All the coaches said she could study abroad in the summer, only one coach said she could study abroad during the school year. In my experience, it is not the norm for D1 athletes to study abroad during the school year. As far as internships, many athletes intern during the summer. But depending on the sport, many athletes are training/competing during the summer months, leaving little time for work /internship opportunities. The college experience for a D1 athlete is very different from the typical college student. These are two great examples of college experiences many D1 athletes sacrifice for the sake of their sport! </p>
<p>ps. My daughter signed with the school whose coach allows study abroad during the school year and plans to study abroad next fall in a combined academic/internship program.</p>
<p>My very limited experience, so far, agrees completey with above ^^^^.
Crew is almost a year-round sport and the couple of coaches I’ve talked to strongly hinted that study abroad should be done only in the summer.
I didn’t ask about internships (though that is a good question) but I would assume it would be the same answer.</p>
<p>^^ “As far as internships, many athletes intern during the summer. But depending on the sport, many athletes are training/competing during the summer months, leaving little time for work /internship opportunities.”</p>
<p>So by theory, athletes can obtain intern jobs in summer. I’m wondering how many recruited athletes ACTUALLY worked intern jobs. For people on this board who has D/S in college, Is it rare, common, or hard to arrange in your student’s sport?</p>
<p>D and several team mates just scores internships for summer 2013. They are swimmers who train year round. Internships are located in home state or near school so they can continue to train (just not as rigorously). It is going to take careful scheduling and self-direction, but it can be done.</p>
<p>D is a freshman athlete whose sport is almost year round. A program she’s in requires a study abroad so she will do that in the summer. The program also offers research assistant opportunites and there was a position she just couldn’t turn down. It will be a busy year for her.</p>
<p>S and I visited Bryant University last summer and asked if any of their majors would be difficult for a D1 athlete schedule-wise. (They just completed the D2 to D1 process). The only one she had reservations about was International Business, which they are known for, precisely due to its study abroad requirement. Their one athlete who is making it work did so by going abroad twice, both times in the summer, which made up the time requirement. But as the coach pointed out, it was that much more expensive to do it that was.</p>
<p>ByeByeSavings,</p>
<p>Why was it more expensive? Because the athlete has to take 2 trips instead of 1?</p>
<p>paying for a summer travel term adds to the cost of the regular school year, which in most schools is a fall and spring term. Unless, of course, your student goes to Dartmouth and on the D plan takes a summer term abroad instead of the fall term. 
Don’t know how that works for the athletes, though. Are they required to be on campus F,W,S all 4 years in order to row?</p>
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<p>Yes, there is a tuition cost for studying abroad as well as an additional fee to cover food and housing.</p>
<p>But the credits earned count toward the degree (as well as the AP classes taken in high school*). So, one might “very easily” finish college (ie; graduate) a semester early. Therefore it might actually not add any additional cost for tuition.</p>
<p>(Also keep in mind that many students don’t graduate in four years anyway.)</p>
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<p>Many (all?) college crew teams have both Fall (usually “Head” races) and Spring rowing seasons. Winter is indoor ERG (and other) conditioning time. That leaves only Summer.</p>
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<p>Several of the schools DD applied to have no additional costs for study abroad programs taken as part of the regular school year (tuition, room, board, etc.). You do have to pay for your plane ticket, passport and any travel outside of the program. Some schools are on a 4-1-4 program so if DD attends one of those schools she will do a study abroad either in J-term or May-term depending on the school. Other schools she plans to do a study abroad in the summer. Her sport doesn’t allow for her to do a traditional semester abroad.</p>
<p>@goplay, I’m sorry I didn’t ask any indepth questions about the costs. However, aside from having to fly your child abroad twice, if you are doing this in the summer you are looking at the peak months for airfare. We went to Italy this past summer with our high school’s Latin Club, and I think airfare was $1300.00 at the time.</p>
<p>Golf - Dartmouth academics are on the trimester system - Fall, Winter, Spring terms – and then Summer, which is what I was referring to with Goplay. Incidentally, at Dartmouth all Sophomores are on campus their sophomore summer, and then NOT on campus their junior fall. I assume that the crew team follows this as well (although, likely not football!)</p>
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<p>Nah, I don’t think so.</p>
<p>Dartmouth Women race from the end of October until early November.</p>
<p>Here’s is Dartmouth’s women’s rowing schedule last year:</p>
<p>[W</a> Crew - Schedules/Results - DartmouthSports.comOfficial Web Site of Dartmouth Varsity Athletics](<a href=“http://www.dartmouthsports.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPSID=48950&SPID=4731&DB_OEM_ID=11600&Q_SEASON=2011]W”>http://www.dartmouthsports.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPSID=48950&SPID=4731&DB_OEM_ID=11600&Q_SEASON=2011)</p>
<p>They have to practice before the season starts and assign boat seats.
My guess is that they are either on campus or practicing somewhere off-campus.</p>
<p>I’m assuming your D is going to Dartmouth.
Best thing to do is to check with the coaches.</p>
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<p>But let me tell you a story I know about college rowing …</p>
<p>A senior last year from my D’s HS was recruited to row at a well known college.
Of course she had worked very hard all year and, after graduation, she was very excited and also very relieved that crew season and classes were finally over.
She was looking forward to relaxing over the summer and preparing for her next stage in life.
'fraid not.
She was contacted by the team and had to report for summer training before her freshman year two days after graduation.
Bye-bye summer vacation.
There ya go.</p>
<p>Golf, my daughter has committed to row at UCLA. She didn’t look at ivies. I attended Dartmouth 100 years ago!</p>
<p>^^^^ Ah, excellent. Got it. Congrats! Best of luck. Let us know how she likes it.</p>