Summers off?

[nvega13]

Do optmetry students have summers off, or at least a few weeks off? The reason I ask is that I wanted to volunteer abroad after my first year, and I was wondering if this would be possible.

Thanks

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[UABopt]

Do optmetry students have summers off, or at least a few weeks off? The reason I ask is that I wanted to volunteer abroad after my first year, and I was wondering if this would be possible.

Thanks

At UAB we have a summer quarter each year, as a result we only get about 3 weeks off the summer of the first year, and almost 6 weeks off the summer of the second year (though you'd probably use that to study for boards.) I think the whole summers off thing varies from school to school though.

 

[cpw]

at UHCO you get the first summer off and then you get six weeks off second summer (but like the above poster said, you use it to study for boards)

 

[r_salis]

At SUNY you get the summer b/w 1st and 2nd year off. There is an optional summer session where you get to take 2 classes from the 2nd year to lighten your course-load (which I highly recommend!), but even with taking that you still get 5 weeks off.

 

[polkadot]

At Berkeley we also get our first summer off. r_salis, I like that optional 2 summer classes thing. We are trying to propose a way to lighten the 2nd year load ourselves (the 2nd years look frazzled ).

-p.dot