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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless your daughter’s high school has their own program, it will be hard to do just one semester versus a year. My siblings and I all did years abroad. We didn’t get credit for most of the classes and had to make it up with summer school and internet courses. It was a great experience and I learned a language and still keep in touch with my host family 20 years later. That said, I wish I had done it as a gap year because it hurt my GPA and college admission stats. Overall a positive but would have been better later.

AFS is probably the best company to do it through. I went through Rotary which was great but at least at that time they didn’t let you choose your country, so France would be tough to get. [/quote]
That's so weird. Mine actually helped me get into college where I double majored in Chemistry and my foreign language. It was a compelling essay. I get that college admissions now is very different from when I was in high school and is much more stat focused than individual focused, though. It's a shame.[/quote]

I'm glad you realize things have changed. This is going to be worse than the "mission trips" kids do to Africa or South America, where at least there's a veneer of charitable work. Here it's nothing but "look at me, I have the money for a stint in Paris!". [/quote]

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