Can students on a health careers path study abroad?
A. Wheaton encourages all students who can study abroad for a year or semester to do so. There are some specific considerations for students on the pre-medical track to keep in mind, the most important being planning well in advance. Students should never take medical school pre-requisite courses while abroad. Study at another college or university in the US or Canada will not have the problem. Students who wish to go abroad may have to make some trade-offs, this is particularly true for students with less exemplary academic records. Since courses taken abroad do not affect the Wheaton grade point average, students will have less time at the college to make an impact on their overall grade point average. The other trade-off could be the timetable for applying to a health professions school. Going abroad may mean delaying taking required courses until senior year, thus making the application process move to after graduation. If a student is not planning to apply to medical school after
