Study Abroad Cancelled - now what?

tsbna44
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 15:04:16 +0000

Just to update everyone - we have a winner. It’s really tough to find summer programs that aren’t through an actual foreign university and that aren’t to Europe. Most, it seems, regardless of the college, get cancelled due to lack of participation.

My daughter will be attending a 4 week program in Korea via a midwestern flagship university. One class is offered by this school and the other by the partnering Korean university - which is a neat set up (I think). And it gets the 6 credits needed. And hopefully allows time for tourism, etc.

The C of C trip was cancelled - again. And it turns out this one would have been too but lucky for them, they found my daughter. They had 11 sign ups and needed ten. But when it came time to pay the $500 commitment, only 9 paid - plus us. So they needed us as much as we needed them. So it’ll be odd for her being the only non-student but she had that in DC too where all but two were U of SC students (the home university for the DC program she attended).

So it seems we’re on a good path.

So the pros to me - four weeks is better than 20 days (the C of C trip) and I like she’ll be taking a class at a university with hopefully a global participation.

The cons to my daughter - the timing. She finishes the spring semester early May but her boyfriend graduates in mid June and she wanted her studies to be before then (beginning of the summer). However, the program is in July - so she’ll be without him for another month - and when gets back, has a few days and is right back to school.

The other con - she wants to travel (Thailand, etc.) - and I don’t like the idea of my little girl being alone no matter how safe it may be. So either a parent goes or hopefully she can connect with some girls through the program - and perhaps somehow get to know them over zoom (if they have pre meetings) and maybe link up with one or two.

Anyway, it seems like - in the end, it’s all going to work out - is the message.

That got me thinking about grad school. Do you have to provide all your transcripts or just the home school that will have all the credits?

Otherwise - it’s a mess - you have the home school (C of C), a community college after first summer, our state flagship after the 2nd summer, U of SC for the DC program, and now the study abroad college plus the Korean college.

I guess, if she even decides to go to grad school, we’d learn in the future.

Anyway, just wanted to close the loop on this one - which was a two summer long journey to finally get it scheduled.