Study in America - 5 Things You Will Love & Hate About Studying Abroad in the USA - Wolters World
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Date: 2022-02-04
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Andy
An additional significant dislike from a UK exchange student's perspective. Is that you're treated much more like a child in American universities compared to UK universities. Especially in your Freshman year. You're not allowed to drink as the legal age is 21. You have to live in shared room dormitories with communal bathrooms. The dormitories don't allow you to cook your own food, they have quiet hours and forbid you from leaving after 11pm, and they have wardens who police and significantly fine you for rule-breaking or having contraband such as drink. You're also very directed in your studies. You have to attend and fully participate in every class and complete a much larger amount of directed homework.
For a UK 18-year-old. That's a massive step backwards in the amount of freedom and independence they're already used to. Such that American University is too much like a UK secondary school, equivalent to USA 6th-10th Grade.
In the UK when teenagers reach age 16, mandatory education finishes. They then have to get a job or continue with entirely voluntary education in what the UK calls college (age 16-18. In UK colleges 16-18-year-olds are considered semi-adult and given a lot more freedom and independence than their US 11th-12th Grade counterparts. They're attending voluntary and so aren't required to be permanently on campus, or forced to show up for class. It's 100% their own responsibility and lookout whether they attend classes and get good grades or not.
This freedom and independence increases when they attend UK university. In halls of residence, there's no room sharing. Freshmen get their own personal apartment with a kitchen and ensuite bathroom. They can come and go as they please, anytime day or night. Plus as the UK drinking age is 18. They can drink whenever they like, and there's a strong drinking and clubbing culture. Especially in Freshman year. Many UK universities even have multiple bars on campus.
Again studying is entirely the student's responsibility. Their study regime is more independent, rather than professor directed. Nobody forces them to, or grades them on, attending class. There's absolutely no hand-holding. The number of essays/reports/projects they do throughout each semester is smaller. But they're larger, assessing a greater amount of semester content, are not professor directed and are more challenging. At the end of each semester. There are multiple very hard 3-4 hour closed book exams which are essay type questions, not multiple choice. These exams thoroughly assess the content of the entire semester. This more independent study regime has its pros and cons compared to the more directed study regime of American universities.
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An additional significant dislike from a UK exchange student's perspective. Is that you're treated much more like a child in American universities compared to UK universities. Especially in your Freshman year. You're not allowed to drink as the legal age is 21. You have to live in shared room dormitories with communal bathrooms. The dormitories don't allow you to cook your own food, they have quiet hours and forbid you from leaving after 11pm, and they have wardens who police and significantly fine you for rule-breaking or having contraband such as drink. You're also very directed in your studies. You have to attend and fully participate in every class and complete a much larger amount of directed homework.
For a UK 18-year-old. That's a massive step backwards in the amount of freedom and independence they're already used to. Such that American University is too much like a UK secondary school, equivalent to USA 6th-10th Grade.
In the UK when teenagers reach age 16, mandatory education finishes. They then have to get a job or continue with entirely voluntary education in what the UK calls college (age 16-18. In UK colleges 16-18-year-olds are considered semi-adult and given a lot more freedom and independence than their US 11th-12th Grade counterparts. They're attending voluntary and so aren't required to be permanently on campus, or forced to show up for class. It's 100% their own responsibility and lookout whether they attend classes and get good grades or not.
This freedom and independence increases when they attend UK university. In halls of residence, there's no room sharing. Freshmen get their own personal apartment with a kitchen and ensuite bathroom. They can come and go as they please, anytime day or night. Plus as the UK drinking age is 18. They can drink whenever they like, and there's a strong drinking and clubbing culture. Especially in Freshman year. Many UK universities even have multiple bars on campus.
Again studying is entirely the student's responsibility. Their study regime is more independent, rather than professor directed. Nobody forces them to, or grades them on, attending class. There's absolutely no hand-holding. The number of essays/reports/projects they do throughout each semester is smaller. But they're larger, assessing a greater amount of semester content, are not professor directed and are more challenging. At the end of each semester. There are multiple very hard 3-4 hour closed book exams which are essay type questions, not multiple choice. These exams thoroughly assess the content of the entire semester. This more independent study regime has its pros and cons compared to the more directed study regime of American universities.
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Mateus
I'm brazilian and I'm graduating this year in Chemical Engineering. I've been thinking in doing a post-graduation at USA because it's more easy to find the kind of course i'm looking for than other countries. But watching your video was like a slap to the face. Don't get me wrong, the vid is incredibly informative as always, but all those things about extra costs for exchange students and the US students will not want to work with you and the restricted classes really disappointed me. Here in Brazil a foreign student has the same number of rights and costs as any native and he/she is treated for his competence instead of his origin. I don't know if these characteristics you said works the same for post-graduation, but If they are. Guess I'll Just have to search for another country. Thank you as always
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I'm brazilian and I'm graduating this year in Chemical Engineering. I've been thinking in doing a post-graduation at USA because it's more easy to find the kind of course i'm looking for than other countries. But watching your video was like a slap to the face. Don't get me wrong, the vid is incredibly informative as always, but all those things about extra costs for exchange students and the US students will not want to work with you and the restricted classes really disappointed me. Here in Brazil a foreign student has the same number of rights and costs as any native and he/she is treated for his competence instead of his origin. I don't know if these characteristics you said works the same for post-graduation, but If they are. Guess I'll Just have to search for another country. Thank you as always
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Kk
Anyone who needs textbooks, whether you're an exchange student or not, needs to know one rule: don't buy from the school if you can. Look online and you can get books for hundreds of dollars less than the school will sell. Also, ask the professors whether you can get an earlier edition or if the book is a necessity. Some professors use the books as just something students can read at home to help, which means they'll never actually assign any reading or problems from the books. I have gotten through semesters spending only $70 for 6 classes worth of text books when I could have spent $800 easily. And this is from a straight A engineering student, too.
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Anyone who needs textbooks, whether you're an exchange student or not, needs to know one rule: don't buy from the school if you can. Look online and you can get books for hundreds of dollars less than the school will sell. Also, ask the professors whether you can get an earlier edition or if the book is a necessity. Some professors use the books as just something students can read at home to help, which means they'll never actually assign any reading or problems from the books. I have gotten through semesters spending only $70 for 6 classes worth of text books when I could have spent $800 easily. And this is from a straight A engineering student, too.
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Maria
So students should learn how the world works and not how it should work? Studying should open your mind. not make you follow blindly what is aready done. Studying should make you a better person, its about your personality, your mind, your chance to think freely and make this a better world. I'm so disappointed. I am Greek and you critised strikes. Strikes costs us money (that we NEED, you think we enjoy them? Its a cry for help. AND STRIKES ARE A HUMAN RIGHT. BUT UNIVERSITIES IN USA HAVENT TAUGHT YOU THAT. Iam so sorry because i love your videos and your family. :-(
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So students should learn how the world works and not how it should work? Studying should open your mind. not make you follow blindly what is aready done. Studying should make you a better person, its about your personality, your mind, your chance to think freely and make this a better world. I'm so disappointed. I am Greek and you critised strikes. Strikes costs us money (that we NEED, you think we enjoy them? Its a cry for help. AND STRIKES ARE A HUMAN RIGHT. BUT UNIVERSITIES IN USA HAVENT TAUGHT YOU THAT. Iam so sorry because i love your videos and your family. :-(
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Frugal
Mark, do you get paid much to be able to afford these travels? I am a high school teacher and also travel a lot during breaks (Thanksgiving, Summer, Spring) but only have 2 weeks Christmas break. However, the county system I teach at pays enough for me to afford to travel, even on long weekends. I taught college as an adjunct and when I asked my mentor about teaching full time, his advise was to stay with the public school system for financial reasons.
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Mark, do you get paid much to be able to afford these travels? I am a high school teacher and also travel a lot during breaks (Thanksgiving, Summer, Spring) but only have 2 weeks Christmas break. However, the county system I teach at pays enough for me to afford to travel, even on long weekends. I taught college as an adjunct and when I asked my mentor about teaching full time, his advise was to stay with the public school system for financial reasons.
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Hi my international student friends, if you want a credit card and you are on an F1 visa but have not yet got a SSN. Take a look at deserve. com/10265
you can apply using your i20 and other documents, without an SSN. The Deserve Edu card has no annual fee and gives you 1-year amazon prime free, 1% cashback on everything, cellphone protection, and other benefits. Use this link deserve. com/10265 to apply you can also get a $30 bonus. Thanks!
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donato
Hello professor Wolters, I have just finished watching your experienced regarding the education system in the world. I have scheduled my appointment on 30th of this at the US embassy basing here in Nairobi Kenya and the course I have applied is business management and administration at Blackhawk College in Wisconsin. Kindly would you guide some of the questions that might be ask during my visa interview and answers if possible. Thanks
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Hello professor Wolters, I have just finished watching your experienced regarding the education system in the world. I have scheduled my appointment on 30th of this at the US embassy basing here in Nairobi Kenya and the course I have applied is business management and administration at Blackhawk College in Wisconsin. Kindly would you guide some of the questions that might be ask during my visa interview and answers if possible. Thanks
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Hope
when he's like, during breaks its not that easy to just drive to Miami as it'll take 10 hours, but in Australia you can drive 10 hours or 2 days, be in the same state and in the middle of nowhere. I wish it would only take me 10 hours to drive to Melbourne, not 5 days! :)
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when he's like, during breaks its not that easy to just drive to Miami as it'll take 10 hours, but in Australia you can drive 10 hours or 2 days, be in the same state and in the middle of nowhere. I wish it would only take me 10 hours to drive to Melbourne, not 5 days! :)
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Thunderbirds
I'm from the USA, but I live in New Zealand. In 2023, I'll be moving back to the United States with my best friend to study there. I haven't been back to America since 2014. I don't know which city/state we should move to & idk which college we should study at.
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I'm from the USA, but I live in New Zealand. In 2023, I'll be moving back to the United States with my best friend to study there. I haven't been back to America since 2014. I don't know which city/state we should move to & idk which college we should study at.
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rolback
Your delusional if you think what you teach in your class prepares your students for the real world. You have apparently never worked a real job but yet your telling students you prepare them to hit the ground running. I call BS on you.
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Your delusional if you think what you teach in your class prepares your students for the real world. You have apparently never worked a real job but yet your telling students you prepare them to hit the ground running. I call BS on you.
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