<p>If you are planning on taking UD courses during the winter or summer sessions there is a way for OOS residents to save big bucks and you don't also have to pay for room/board (if you stay on-site). The way to do this is to take UD On-Line courses at the "nonresident site participant rate" when you register for courses thru UD's Professional and Continuing Education Department or the Southern Regional Educations Board's Electronic Campus. The cost for OOS tuition is $499 per credit hour verses $1135 if you take the courses on-site at UD. You can save $1908 per 3 credit course (or double this for two 3 credit courses). You take these courses on your computer at home, wherever you live. You take exams thru a local testing center (small charge usually of $30-$50 total). These testing centers are located at many universities and community colleges and are identified on the UD site. Not all courses are available this way but they are identified in UD's Winter/Summer Sessions' brochures (also are on line at UD's site). These courses are regular UD courses and are listed on a students transcript as regular matriculated UD courses (they are not identified as being on-line courses). Registration for the Winter session began 11/2/12. My D did this twice in order to reduce her course load during the regular semesters (she had a pretty rigorous schedule as a Nursing major). It might sound a little complicated to do but it really is easy to do. If you have any questions about this please ask. You must be a full-time matriculated undergraduate student to do this.</p>
<p>thank you for sharing, this is very useful. My D was considering an online course during winter. I copied your post into an email for he to read, she is looking into what course will best suit her for the winter session. much appreciated!</p>
<p>Hi Mwallendmd,</p>
<p>Thanks for this tidbit. My son (OOS) is considering attending UDel - and I’m trying to figure out the best course to deal with this Winter break if he goes. It seems like it will hurt his summer job prospects locally (by his shortened availability) - and I cost-wise, I’m not sure if he’ll be able to take advantage of any study abroad programs.</p>
<p>(also - as a side-note, does Delaware’s odd calendar conflict with or shorten the opportunity for regular semester or year-long “study abroad” programs?)</p>
<p>I am having a hard time deciphering the room/board rates at UDel - and you write “and you don’t also have to pay for room/board (if you stay on-site)”. How does that work? You pay the $750 odd dining fee, stay in the residence hall for free, and they don’t actually care if you are taking the course online or in person - as long as you take the final exams at some local college/site?</p>
<p>Unless things have changed you cannot get the “nonresident site participant rate” for tuition if you live on campus. If a student lives on site in campus housing at UD for the Winter Session to take courses they don’t have to pay additional for their room but they are required to purchase a meal plan (unless they are living in Christiana Towers) and must pay regular tuition rates. I’m sorry if the way I worded things in my original post was confusing.</p>
<p>Most students who do Study Abroad do so during the Winter Session. However some students do Study Abroad during a single semester or for a full year. There should be no conflict with UD’s schedule for semester/year-long programs as the student’s schedule would coincide with whatever school they are attending (not UD’s schedule). If you do Study Abroad during the Winter Session you pay regular UD tuition rates for the courses you take plus the additional costs for the program itself (figure a minimum of 10-12K for everything). I don’t know how this would work for semester or year-long programs. Good luck. </p>
<p>Thanks for your reply, Mwallenmd</p>
<p>UD seems like a good school, but unfortunately Binghamton is appearing more and more as the overwhelmingly fiscally sound decision. He is OOS there as well, but the better aid (surprisingly) and much lower OOS costs to begin with make it a veritable bargain for him.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Delaware is more appealing from the locale/campus in general. He visited twice - once back over Columbus day weekend and really wasn’t in love with it; he visited again - and decided he liked it much more given his other accepted options (realistically speaking, Bing, Del, or UNH - our IS school).</p>
<p>Time to generate a detailed list of pros and cons and hopefully have him make an informed/mature decision. We can swing UDel - and he would end up with max federal loans - but extra options (such as study abroad or city-based internships) would almost certainly be off the table.</p>
<p>Thanks again.</p>
<p>Another way to save on summer courses- especially In-state is to take courses over at Delaware Tech… For those not from Delaware, our community college is actually pretty good and has a relationship with UofD. UofD has very limited summer/winter course offerings, but the community college has a ton of stuff… And they can make sure you take something that will transfer to UofD. (and it is alot cheaper ). So you can knock out some core requirement at the community college. My daughter did this because UofD had very poor offerings during the summer she needed to pick up a specific math course.</p>
<p>On the registrar’s page, there is info about transferring in outside credits. They have a transfer credit matrix where you can look up what courses are already approved for transfer, and then you just need to fill out the proper paperwork. My S took 2 classes locally last summer, one over winter and will take one more on-line this summer, all from 2 community colleges and Rowan. Twelve credits all for less than one 3 credit course at UD. The transferred grade is on the UD transcript, but not included in UD GPA.</p>