Article: Balaban, Mariah & Shields, Jennifer. Study away; the unauthorized guide to college abroad.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)

Random House, Anchor. 319p. illus. index. c2003. 1-4000-3189-3. $13.95. SA

The authors are young women who have had the experience of studying abroad. Balaban spent her senior year in Paris; Shields graduated from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and has spent time in Russia in special summer programs. Here in New England it is relatively common for high school students to attend Canadian colleges and universities (Canadian schools count as "abroad" in this book), and families and students enjoy the bargain prices as well as the friendly (and usually safer) campus life there. But Canada is just the beginning: there are numerous schools teaching in the ...

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