<p>What do you think of this idea? Florida State University is recruiting high achieving high school students to enroll and then spend their first year off campus.
International</a> Programs
My daughter's getting mailings about it. She's a top student who is currently a rotary exchange student in S. America for a "gap year" between her sophomore and junior years of high school. I think she'd love it but I think the fees are pretty high and I'm not sure FSU would be the right school for her. Do you know of any other colleges offering a first year abroad? I wonder if it is a way for overcrowded colleges to save money on freshman housing or a way to overbook the freshman class anticipating many students not returning for sophomore year.</p>
<p>great opportunity. I hope to study abroad in Australia or Paris. </p>
<p>idk of any colleges that do first year abroad. most i’ve looked at want you to have a certain GPA from their schoolbut im sure someone on here can help you out</p>
<p>NYU has freshman programs abroad. Check it out here:
[NYU</a> > Study Abroad](<a href=“First Year Away Programs”>First Year Away Programs)</p>
<p>DD is doing FYA with FSU. 2 semesters in Florence followed by 2 short summer semesters in Valencia, Spain. Its an amazing opportunity to travel around the entire Europe and North Africa with 3 day weekends and 10 day breaks. She is also doing this summer in China with them but it is in Tianjin University, FSU does not have its own campus in China. For out of staters it is cheaper than Tallahassee.</p>
<p>Apollo, one more thing. My daughter is getting 45 credits for AP & CLEP exams at FSU which dramatically lowers tuition by cutting time to graduation. Their campuses abroad are small so she gets liberal art education in tiny classes taught by real professors rather teacher assistants.</p>
<p>Thanks for the AP credit hint. My daughter will have taken more than 10 AP exams (possibly as many as 16 by the end of her senior year) so doing her undergraduate degree in 3 years is a real possibility. I don’t think I’d want to rush her more than that, but 3 years may be reasonable. After a year in Ecuador in high school, I expect that her Spanish would be strong enough to survive in Spanish university courses. Thanks for the good words on FSU. We’ll keep that option open and look into NYU, too.</p>
<p>What a neat idea. A little bit like a gap year.</p>