Here are some useful resources for anyone who’s interested in becoming an exchange student.
- Cultures Shocked: a forum full of past, present, and future exchangers (and their parents)
- Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange: a scholarship that sends 250 American high-school students on a yearlong exchange to Germany each year
- National Security Language Initiative for Youth: provides hundreds of scholarships to several countries for summer, semester, and year programs
- YES Abroad: offers full scholarships for American students to exchange to Muslim countries
- AFS Intercultural Programs
- Youth for Understanding
- Rotary Youth Exchange
- ASSE International Student Exchange Programs
- AYUSA Global Youth Exchange
- Council on International Exchange
- and the all-important CSIET: Council on Standards for International Travel – make sure that your exchange program is listed with these folks!
