Tulane Spring Scholars - Fall study abroad options

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My DC was accepted at Tulane for their Spring Scholars program. Any experience with these fall study abroad programs: Richmond American University in London, The American University of Paris, or John Cabot University in Rome?

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My kid had a friend who did tulane spring scholars fairly recently. I think she went to either Paris or Rome. Had a great experience abroad and transitioned well with their cohort into the tulane campus in spring.

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Anonymous wrote:My DC was accepted at Tulane for their Spring Scholars program. Any experience with these fall study abroad programs: Richmond American University in London, The American University of Paris, or John Cabot University in Rome?

Stats?
Major?

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Anonymous wrote:My DC was accepted at Tulane for their Spring Scholars program. Any experience with these fall study abroad programs: Richmond American University in London, The American University of Paris, or John Cabot University in Rome?

how much does it cost for abroad programs?

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Is anyone bothered by the freshman study abroad programs? To me, the freshman dorm experience is important to a student’s social life in college. Maybe it’s me…

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Anonymous wrote:My kid had a friend who did tulane spring scholars fairly recently. I think she went to either Paris or Rome. Had a great experience abroad and transitioned well with their cohort into the tulane campus in spring.

Thanks, this is helpful!

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Yes. DC did John Cabot in Rome. While it was a great experience overall as far as the school, housing, etc. go, we would not go this route again if given a choice of another enrollment.

Many reasons for saying this, but bottom line is, go abroad a semester junior year, when everyone else does. This is not an ideal way to start your college experience.

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone bothered by the freshman study abroad programs? To me, the freshman dorm experience is important to a student’s social life in college. Maybe it’s me…

Yes. It's not an ideal experience at all. Kid dependent, of course, but definitely harder to incorporate into the freshman class at Tulane in the spring, and ends up affecting remaining years there.

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone bothered by the freshman study abroad programs? To me, the freshman dorm experience is important to a student’s social life in college. Maybe it’s me…

Yes. It's not an ideal experience at all. Kid dependent, of course, but definitely harder to incorporate into the freshman class at Tulane in the spring, and ends up affecting remaining years there.

+1 My niece did this and it definitely changed the college experience. They don't make as many friends, miss out on the bonding that happens by all being new to dorm life/college etc as a group. Plus it kind of wastes their study abroad experience as part of the fun of that is having friends in other cities and getting to visit each other etc.

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There is a really good Reddit thread on this topic and the consensus is that it is not good and school oversells the benefits.

We decided against it.

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This.

One point that was interesting is that you shouldn’t assume that because rushing is in the spring your child will be fine. Pledges are identified during the parties in the fall. Or most are. So makes it hard.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. DC did John Cabot in Rome. While it was a great experience overall as far as the school, housing, etc. go, we would not go this route again if given a choice of another enrollment.

Many reasons for saying this, but bottom line is, go abroad a semester junior year, when everyone else does. This is not an ideal way to start your college experience.

Can you give some details on your many reasons for saying this, if it was also a great experience? Specifics would be very helpful.

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My DC was a spring scholar. It is not great to be a just turned 18 year old in Europe (or in a house in New Orleans) with no RA, etc. It was really, really wild. My DC came to Tulane in January with a group of Spring Scholar friends. 3 of them dropped out of Tulane within a year. It is hard to break into other friends groups and rushing sucks unless you have a connection to one of the sororities or fraternities because they basically pick their pledge class in the fall during dirty rush. The college experience is just off. My older DC at another school has so many close friends from their dorm freshman year, but my Spring Scholar DC has none of that. I would never agree to it again. Should have gone to a different school.

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Also, a majority of the junior class goes abroad in the fall of junior year and spring scholars miss out on that bonding unless they go again. If they stay at Tulane during junior year, they are left out of housing becuase all the kids that go abroad get a waiver from living on campus and the rent a house together for 3rd and 4th year. Yet again, spring scholars are just not in sync with the rest of the class and have to live on campus junior year. Many do go abroad again junior year, but that is a lot of money and partying throughout Europe or Australia for another 5 months.

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Anonymous wrote:My DC was a spring scholar. It is not great to be a just turned 18 year old in Europe (or in a house in New Orleans) with no RA, etc. It was really, really wild. My DC came to Tulane in January with a group of Spring Scholar friends. 3 of them dropped out of Tulane within a year. It is hard to break into other friends groups and rushing sucks unless you have a connection to one of the sororities or fraternities because they basically pick their pledge class in the fall during dirty rush. The college experience is just off. My older DC at another school has so many close friends from their dorm freshman year, but my Spring Scholar DC has none of that. I would never agree to it again. Should have gone to a different school.

Wow. This is really good to know.