year abroad in high school?

hmom5
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:44:01 +0000

It’s nothing special these days, many kids do it. The biggest issue is that in most of these programs you can not take a rigorous course load. School Year Abroad is the only program I’ve seen that offers at least a few APs. So if you’re applying to highly selective colleges, it can be a negative.

I’ll also warn that in my experience Rotary is hit or miss. Some kids I’ve known ended up in good families and decent high schools, but many others did not and one I know left after 2 weeks this year. He was placed in a school that had never had a student from abroad, the local advisor was new and spoke no English, and no one knew what to do with him.