Study abroad during final college semester?

[Az1698]

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Hey,
I am planning on doing a study abroad program my spring semester of my senior year. I figure I should already know where I was accepted to and all that. The problem is that I heard some people say the final 30 credits you take have to be at your home university. Is this true?

 

[muhali3]

I don't know if your school does the same thing, but ours has two types of study abroad programs: one with a class taught by a faculty member from your school, and another where you take a class at a foreign university. The first type counts as credit from your "home" university.

 

[red10]

You'll have to ask your adviser and see what your school's policy is.

Also the interview season can go into feb so if you leave the country and you still have schools that haven't granted you an interview, you'll miss out. If you're going abroad 2nd semester you better have stellar numbers and get all your stuff in as soon as humanly possible so that you do have your acceptances by dec.

 

[Tots]

Our school has two programs(that go to lots of different countries) where the classes count as taken at the home institution so ask the advisor!

 

[casillas]

It all depends on the school ask an advisor at your school. and as someone said you may not be done with interviews by that time, you probably don't want to risk it.

 

[TAWS]

Some countries start the spring semester pretty late (like in March). Might want to consider those countries as you would still have Jan and Feb to interview.

 

[TheMightySmiter]

To be honest I've never heard of anyone studying abroad spring of their senior year. I didn't even know it was possible what with graduation preparations that you have to do and such. But it depends on your institution, of course.

If I were you, I might go abroad through a private organization the summer between graduation and med school. There are lots of "study abroad" or volunteer abroad programs that aren't linked to any US university and that you don't need to be a student to qualify for. Of course, you probably couldn't get any financial aid or anything whereas you might as an undergrad student. Still, doing this would give you a great experience abroad and wouldn't conflict with interviews and graduation.