Undergrad overseas, Grad in the US?

Applying to College
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<p>I want to study my undergraduate courses overseas, probably in the UK. The problem is, many undergraduate students are interviewed for graduate school during their third or fourth years of college here in the US. </p>

<p>If I choose to study abroad and then return, how would I be interviewed for grad school? My parents insist I would have to take a gap year and are therefore against my going overseas, but I think there would have to be a way for undergrad students who study abroad to come back to grad school without having to take a year off.</p>

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<p>If you do end up applying to grad school, at that point you will be able to sort out the interview issue. International students apply to grad school here all the time, without taking gap years, so clearly there is a system in place to make things work.</p>

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<p>You might want to ask in grad school forum, but are you sure your field does interviews? Generally I don’t think you do interviews for grad school. Especially not Masters. There are exceptions, one is BME and perhaps some other lab oriented fields. My daughter didn’t interview and was accepted to PhD track programs. She did visit 3 campuses for accepted student day/weekends, so that could be an issue if you don’t have a clear decision on which to accept. I’m not sure how it works with flying in overseas students, but usually they pay for the visit, at least from the U.S.</p>

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<p>First of all, not all grad programs interview. That’s mostly PhD programs, and then mostly in certain fields (mine is one of them - psychology).</p>

<p>You wouldn’t have to take a gap year if you could afford to fly back and forth between the UK and the US for your interviews. A lot of graduate programs actually pay for the visit - in my field, it’s standard for the department to pay to fly the students here and put them up with other students, but that doesn’t mean they’ll pay to fly you from Europe.</p>

<p>However, there’s nothing wrong with a gap year, and in fact I recommend it for PhD hopefuls (I am a sixth-year PhD student myself).</p>