My daughter has applied to go on a youth exchange next year (her sophomore year in high school) for the entire school year. She is a really mature kid who does great in school and has a terrific attitude. I am slightly apprehensive about her studying abroad (likely France) but the opportunity seems too great to pass up.
Have a couple of questions for anyone knowledgeable about these things
1) Should I push to have the credits transferred to her US high school or the opposite? She has always been a 4.0 student but I can not imagine that she would be able to do that while in a french high school taking classes in a language that she has only started studying. Without these credits, she will be only one credit shy of the required credits after only three years of high school (ie not counting the year abroad). This could easily be made up with a single online course.
2) If she becomes fluent in French, coming home and taking French II sounds a bit silly. I have been told that colleges want to see multiple years of study of the same language. What should she do when she returns?
3) Do you think that this will help or hurt her college applications? Like too many folks I make too much money to qualify for financial aide (hhi $300sh) but not enough to stroke $65k checks annually especially with 2 others only a couple of years behind. She is looking at either an instate school (UF) or getting a merit scholarship somewhere else if that is even an option.
Not sure that this is the best forum for this but would appreciate any feedback.
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