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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the PP from Notre Dame who did the sophomore year abroad program and adored it.  Going away for all of sophomore year meant I could experience living and studying abroad and still major in the sciences.  As one who did it, I also question why more schools don't do it.  The sophomore year abroad program at ND and Saint Mary's College has been going on for something like 50 years.  My mother, Saint Mary's alumnae, did it when she was a sophomore too in 1970 - 71.  [/quote]

I'm curious why you think going away sophomore year is a good idea.  Virtually every other school offers the same sort of program junior year which in my mind makes a lot more sense.[/quote]

Sophomore year abroad doesn't effect your major classes.  I went to Innsbruck, took all electives and general ed classes (in German) and could come back to major in biology.  Friends went to France who had no intention of majoring in French and came back to majors not offered in their college in France anyway - like science or English Lit.

[b]All other junior year long programs thru universities have to be part of your major[/b].  Sophomore years are generally a wash anyway.  Some comedian once said that all he did sophomore year was try to get away from the friends he made too fast freshman year!  Now, that wasn't true for me but was for a few of my friends!

Anyway, having done it the sophomore year abroad program, I can say it makes perfect sense to me (and my mother!)   [/quote]

That may be the case at Notre Dame but at elite colleges there is no such constraint. Students can study whatever they'd like junior year abroad. Your experience seems to be vert much focused on one school and not the best colleges out there.  Great that it worked for you.....not so great to spread incorrect information.[/quote]

ND poster is right that Junior year abroad can be difficult with a science major.  My kid's at a top 10 school and would not be able to get the courses needed to complete a bio major/write a senior thesis in four years if junior *year* were spent abroad.  A summer, a semester, maybe.  The constraint isn't always what's offered abroad -- it comes from what's required at home.[/quote]

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