<p>Wow…just when I was thinking that the situation is more or less the same everywhere – and that international students all over have the same basic set of options (with differences, of course, based on proximity to airports, size of the city/town where the college is located and other external factors that are obvious), this “host family” idea gets tossed out. That’s incredibly thoughtful and useful! What are the roles of the host families? Does it go so far as providing accommodations during breaks? (Even if it’s not quite that intensive, it still sounds like a great program that should be appealing to international students, particularly early on, and possibly a value to the host families as well.)</p>
<p>EDIT: <a href=“Dean of Students | Bowdoin College”>Dean of Students | Bowdoin College;