<p>As DD begins to plan to study abroad in Grenada, Spain next fall, as a parent I am wondering how the finances worked out for other students? Specifically, DD is a has a DHS scholarship and I was wondering if this ended up covering the costs of your child's chosen program? For housing/meals, did you find that you spent less than you normally give to Tulane for the same? I know that travel and entertainment will be extra of course, but wondering specifically about the tuition and room/board coverage.
On another note, my D was saying that some programs cost much less than Tulane tuition. If a child is not on scholarship, do parents have to pay the full Tulane tuition or is the cost for that semester just what the program charges?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi spring162 - Good to see you again. I cannot help you much with the details on this one because my D, who is in Beijing both semesters this year, is there on a grant from the Chinese government. So what she did was to take a leave of absence from Tulane and therefore her DHS is put “on hold”. She can stay another 2 years at Tulane tuition free, if she wants. Not so likely there are programs like that for Spain right now, given the financial situation of the country, but never hurts to check. Otherwise the one thing I know for sure is that Tulane will pay for your D’s tuition in Spain since she has the DHS.</p>
<p>Otherwise, as I understand it (and you would want to double check all this), Tulane does not cover any other expenses, and you still have to pay the “fees” that Tulane charges except for the Athletic fee. The theory being that they are still advising your student or whatever. That’s an entirely different discussion of course. But room/board is still on you, just like at Tulane. Also, I believe, Tulane charges their normal tuition, no matter what the other university actually costs. Every other school I have looked at regarding this matter has the same policy, which I suppose makes some sense even if they are obviously “making money” in most cases. Again, that would be an entirely separate discussion involving the marginal cost of having another student on campus, etc.</p>
<p>I suppose, depending on what programs you are talking about specifically, one could take a leave of absence from Tulane and just pay what those programs charge, if they are significantly less. But I have no idea what extra hassles that might involve with regards to transfer of credit, getting a dorm room coming back, etc. My D isn’t worried about those issues because she doesn’t need the credits (although I am sure she will still get some) and it looks like she will live off campus next year. Plus all the people in her major department plus her advisor plus some of the Deans were fully apprised of her situation beforehand and approved it, which makes sense since Tulane was promoting her for this grant.</p>
<p>Thanks, Fallen. I figured DHS would cover tuition, just praying you would not owe more tuition on top of that. Cant see how you would. For room and board, I was hoping to spend less for that. Disappointing that, if true, I still owe all the Tulane fees. It is debatable as to if they are really advising my D on this. A topic for another thread altogether. LOL Study abroad office seems to point her to her academic advisor and academic advisor says to ask SA office. Typical, I am sure but aggravating to my D.
In regards to my other question about kids who pay their own tuiton (or part of it). My D says some programs listed at about 10K tuition and she wondered why they dont take a leave to avoid paying Tulane 40+K. I dont know ramifications of this. I wonder if someone here could help out with this? We have a friend whose D has a partial (22K maybe?) and want to know how to help her not get the raw deal.</p>
<p>i’m currently in the process of applying for study abroad and i share your D’s frustration. everyone seems to suggest i ask my questions to someone else!</p>
<p>DHS scholarship does cover tuition, but you are responsible for airfare, room & board, and probably some extra random fees LOL.</p>
<p>i do think it is stupid that Tulane charges you the same tuition rate, regardless of whether the study abroad program is cheaper or more expensive, especially given that most programs are cheaper. i’ve heard of people taking leave to study/travel abroad, but i’m not sure exactly how that works either.</p>
<p>Where you heading, tulane14? I think you said once upon a time, but I forget.</p>
<p>Right now, I’m going to apply for Copenhagen through DIS. They have a cool program called Medical Practice & Policy, as well as lots of other cool medicine-related classes :)</p>
<p>Copenhagen is one of the few major European cities I have not been to, but many of my friends have and they rave about it. Good luck with that, I know you will have a great time. Just one semester or are you going to go for the whole year?</p>
<p>Just one semester, as for now. I’m hoping to apply for medical school on the usual timeline so I really need to be back in the spring of my junior year to finish my prerequisites and study for the MCAT.</p>
<p>That is the same reason D is going in the fall also. She is preparing for and taking MCAT this summer to hopefully lighten her load spring '12 . You know there is always more volunteering, shadowing, service to be done! I give all Premeds a ton of credit because the whole process is grueling to say the least. D is hoping her semester abroad will be the calm before the storm.</p>
<p>Yup, I’m just hoping that it will all work out. I’m not 100% set on studying abroad in the fall either, but I’m going to apply for now so that I will at least have a spot. In addition, I am also looking at at doing a neuroscience program this summer in Spain for 6 weeks where I would take 1 neuroscience elective and 1 spanish class.</p>