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[msmemory_archive]

I hope the administrations of other fine and expensive institutions in this region also read this article in today's Globe:
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/05/12/the_harvard_disadvantage/
I never even considered frivolities like Junior Year Abroad. Not with parents who considered it a big issue when I asked for a new winter jacket during my freshman year.

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[msmemory.livejournal.com]

If there was financial aid available for study abroad, other than at the Fulbright level, it wasn't disclosed to the students. So asking my family for a junior year in France would've been an unthinkable expense.

[jenwrites.livejournal.com]

By the time I got there, there was financial aid for travel abroad if you applied to the right programs. I know the one in Cordoba, Spain was one, because that's what I did, and all my financial aid traveled with me. The college even upped the amount of my grant to cover the money I wouldn't be able to make in work-study while I was there. So for the same price as another year at Wellesley, I got a year in Spain, including airfare for each semester, room and board, books, and a few trips. I believe the Aix en Provence (sp?) program in France was similarly covered by financial aid.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

I went to college in this era too, plus with most of the science majors you couldn't go abroad and finish in time. And yet for years I felt I'd failed to do something important by not doing it! Go figure THAT out. I'm better now thanks.