Zu spät für‘s Auslandsjahr?

Hello

a year abroad in school, a student exchange, is a good idea. For your questions:

• It is not too late for a student exchange from summer 2025.
• Whether you’re in the 11. Class can make a student exchange depends on the rules in your school. At G9 schools (13 years of school), this is usually not a problem. At G8 schools (8 school years) this usually goes when you start a school year.
• You can only make the decision about the target country yourself. Both countries are attractive.
• The purpose of the student exchange is to get to know the country, people, culture and everyday life. Therefore, the question is: what country, what culture is more interested in you?
• This is also possible with low language skills at the beginning. You learn this quickly on site.
• A host family in the USA is only beneficial if you get a school place there. Close relatives are not possible in the J1 visa as host family. Besides: From the cost, this is not an advantage for you, at evtl. Problems abroad even have a disadvantage. A related host family is therefore not recommended.
• Costs: In general, Denmark is cheaper than the USA. For the USA, the J1 program (USA Classic) is most cost-effective
• Financing: Whether you get a scholarship is helpful, but not decisive. There are also savings opportunities (costs are lost at home, selection of a good and favourable exchange organisation) and financing aids, including foreign BAFÖG and the child benefit that continues

To Procedure: Student exchange is a larger project. You should do that systematically:

• the Overview the Exchange of students
• the overview of USA
• exchange of pupils Scholarship database
• the Manual with inside information in Student Exchange Online Course
• the recommended providers online and the nationwide IN THE WORLD trade fairs the non-profit foundation international understanding

An overview of the tasks of the exchange organisations and how to find the best provider this blog post

Best regards