{"id":412,"date":"2007-06-05T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=412"},"modified":"2016-07-08T15:07:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T19:07:09","slug":"get-out-of-my-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"get out of my country!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/studyabroadbird.jpg\" alt=\"studying abroad...with animals!\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>whats the deal with studying abroad (through woodsworth college)?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nthough Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin would definitely study abroad&#8230;or two!&#8230;.askastudent does make those kinds of jokes. no siree. just like U of T, studying abroad is covered by multiple programs and offices. the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summerabroad.utoronto.ca\/index.php?\/newlook\/indexx\/C46\/Home\/banner\">summer abroad<\/a> program is offered through woodsworth college, but is available to all students. in the grand woodsworth tradition, academic standards for admission are basically non-existent- you just have to be in good standing, and apply before they run out of spots. and don&#8217;t forget to pay! some of the programs require you to write a letter explaining why you&#8217;d like to study in that particular country, and &#8216;cheap booze&#8217; would probably not get you accepted. other than that, my friends have all said it&#8217;s brilliant fun times.<br \/>\nbeyond the woodsworth stuff, there are opportunities to study abroad through the <a href=\"http:\/\/cie.utoronto.ca\/\">international student centre<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/cie.utoronto.ca\/Exchange-Programs\/U-of-T-Students.htm\">international student exchange office<\/a>. though it looks like they have some single-semester and summer programs, this is where it actual gets more complicated. see, some of these programs require really high marks, as high as a 3.5 GPA if you want to get the coveted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.killamfellowships.com\/\">Killam fellowship<\/a>. My friend used these departments to study in Edinburgh, where he had an amazing time and met his lovely girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>after checking out this study abroad program at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ut.ee\/en\">university of tartu<\/a>, askastudent is prepared to rescind our &#8216;no tartu ever&#8217; policy. go tartu university!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>whats the deal with studying abroad (through woodsworth college)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,145,65,108,35,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-gap-year","category-other-schools-boo","category-summer","category-switching","category-woodsworth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}