<p>How good of a job does Amherst do in setting its students up with outside opportunities and study abroad? Do grants usually cover all costs? </p>
<p>I’m also considering Cornell. So much goes on at Cornell in terms of extracurricular opportunities (and yes, the food and shiny facilities are nice too), but the idea of being in a 400-person class really turns me off. Also, I’d be competing for grad students for research positions, and I might not be able to have the same depth of involvement in extracurriculars that I’d have at Amherst. Is there any possibility of doing independent research at Cornell?</p>
<p>If anyone has knowledge of Middlebury’s commitment to student involvement in the lab, community, world, etc, feel free to comment on that too.</p>
<p>From the website: For the past ten years, approximately 35-40% of the junior class studies abroad. The majority of students spend a semester abroad either by studying with a program or directly enrolling at a foreign university. Some, though, choose to spend a full year - and sometimes on two different programs. For example, a student studying German and Spanish spent one semester in each country. Another student spent a semester in France and a semester in Senegal, to study French colonialism and modern Africa.</p>
<p>So I think study aboard is pretty well set up.</p>
<p>Internships are pretty abundant. The center of community engagement often funds students to conduct their own projects in the summer. The center sponsors quite a number of internships under various programs, some pre-selected for you, some up to you to pick</p>