<p>Hi, I'm an American student planning on applying to the University of Edinburgh, to have as an option. I'm not sure if I would want to be abroad for my degree or not, so applying couldn't hurt...or could it? If I happened to be accepted but then decided that I didn't want to go abroad for my degree and declined the acceptance, would that hurt my chances of being able to be accepted for a single year abroad via direct enrollment, later in my college education?</p>
<p>What exactly is a single year abroad via direct enrollment?</p>
<p>Direct enrollment is, from what I understand, when you apply directly to the university you want to study abroad a year at, as opposed to studying abroad through a program that’s affiliated with the university you’d be currently attending. As for single year, I just referring to studying abroad say, my junior year, in college.</p>
<p>If you are attending a program affiliated with your school, then the credit transfers are already decided, graduation is not impacted etc.</p>
<p>This plan sounds quite troublesome overall if it is not affiliated with your undergrad school.</p>
<p>I’m just wondering if I turned down an acceptance that was for a full degree abroad (4 years) but decided in the future that I would want to, instead, do a year abroad (1 year, probably junior year), would me turning down the acceptance of the full degree earlier in my life affect my chances on just getting into the one year program? (I know I could most likely work out credit transfers with my future school, because direct enrollment isn’t all that uncommon, from what I’ve researched, so the credits are not a problem–it’s more of the above question) :)</p>
<p>If you want to go back to the same school you turned down, who knows. The schools in UK admit you to a specific major which means no one would probably even know if you decide on a different major for your year there. There are also many schools which means you can apply to schools other than those you turned down.</p>
<p>If your school has exchange program, they can’t turn you down.</p>
<p>Personally, I think you are making an elaborate plan with no real defined variables for people on CC to make a call for you. You need an undergrad school defined, you need to know for sure what schools they work with abroad as well as whether they give you credit for a school they don’t work with before worrying about this specific question.</p>
<p>You don’t need to worry about Edinburgh. Admissions to a full undergraduate degree and for a study abroad year will be handled by different people. Even if the computer system did cross-reference the two applications, then I really don’t think they’d care. I work at an English university and we certainly wouldn’t. So I’d suggest you apply for the full degree, see what offers you get in the UK and the US and then make up your mind.</p>
<p>Thanks! That’s really good to know!</p>