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Course Selection Guidebook – Fall 2011division science courses in addition to the standard premedical prerequisite courses. In addition,students must take the MCAT and score at least a 26, with every MCAT subscore being 7 orbetter. They must complete at least 120 hours of medically related activities in the junior year andat least 60 hours of medically related activities in the senior year. The student must graduate fromthe College before matriculating at VCU.Features of the program include: Accepted students can apply elsewhere: acceptance is binding onVCU, not on the accepted student. For accepted students, VCU reserves a place in the enteringclass that matriculates in the late summer at the end of the accepted applicant’s fourth year at theCollege; thus, if the student chooses to graduate a year early, s/he must wait a year to start medicalschool at VCU.For more information, please contact the College’s premedical advisor, Dr. Beverly Sher, atbtsher@wm.edu .The Sharpe Community Scholars ProgramEach year the College recognizes 75 entering students with the designation of Sharpe CommunityScholar. Sharpe Scholars are highly motivated first-year students who want to connect theiracademic studies to community engagement.Embedding service into the academic curriculum, the Sharpe program stresses an integratedapproach: students live together for one year, enroll in one of several specially designated coursesduring their first semester, and simultaneously work in teams of three or four on projects designedto assist local not-for-profit organizations and government agencies. These projects give studentsan opportunity to apply academic concepts and theories to real world situations. Sharpe teamscontinue to develop their projects through second semester. They receive mentoring fromprofessors, agency directors, and local community leaders and are encouraged to explore variousforms of civic work. The summer after their freshman year, Sharpe Scholars may apply for grantsof up to $2,000 to conduct community-based research projects in the U.S. or abroad; or they mayapply their seminar credits toward course requirements for the Community Studies Minor.Information about current Sharpe Courses may be found athttp://www.wm.edu/as/charlescenter/scholars/sharpe/index.php.For both fall and spring term, students must also enroll in a 1-credit short course CMST 100: TheCollege & Community.For more information, please contact Monica D. Griffin at (757) 221-2495.Study AbroadStudy abroad can be included in any major with a little advance planning, so start thinking about itearly!How to plan. If you think you want to go abroad, you should discuss this with your AcademicAdvisor during your freshman year. You and your advisor should identify your academic goals,possible major/minor requirements, and GER requirements. With those in mind, you should thencome to the Global Education Office (GEO) in the Reves Center to begin looking for a program88
Course Selection Guidebook – Fall 2011that will meet your academic needs. The GEO has a library of study abroad resources and hasadvisors on staff to help you decide on how, when, and where to study abroad.Where to go. William & Mary students study all over the world, from Great Britain to Tanzaniaand from China to Argentina. There are several ways for W&M students to study abroad:William & Mary summer faculty-led programsWilliam & Mary sponsored semester programsWilliam & Mary semester- and yearlong tuition exchange programsThird-party study abroad programs (including those administered by other US universitiesor by commercial and non-profit study abroad organizations, and direct enrollment inoverseas universities)When to go. The majority of students undertake study abroad during their sophomore or junioryears; which is best depends both on the shape of your four-year academic plan and on yourpersonal readiness to go. It is also possible to study away during your final two semesters (senioryear), but remember that you must have permission to do so (through a petition for a waiver of thesenior residency requirement) and it can be much more difficult to find a program that satisfiesyour academic requirements during those semesters.It is recommended that you study abroad for a semester or year if possible, as extended periodsallow for deeper learning and greater personal development than short-term programs. Still, if youare unable to be away from campus for a full semester, there are many summer and intersessionprograms for you to choose from.Things to remember. As you prepare to make study overseas a part of the academic path youpursue here at William & Mary, here are a few things to keep in mind:Courses taken abroad can count toward major and minor requirements, but most often(and ideally ) these courses do not exactly match those taught on the home campus andthey are designated as elective or topics credit. Particularly for students in concentrationswith tightly structured progressions of courses, this fact should be taken into account whenyou are choosing the best time and place for your study abroad.As a general rule, you may not fulfill your GERs abroad. Exceptions to this rule may bemade for GERs 4 and 5 through a petition to the Committee on Degrees followingcompletion of the program abroad.You may complete your language proficiency requirement abroad as long as thelanguage you study is a primary language of your host country.Credit for classes on programs abroad, with the exception of W&M faculty-led summerprograms and W&M’s semester programs in La Plata and Seville, is entered on yourWilliam & Mary transcript as transfer credit. (The semesters in La Plata and Seville andthe faculty-led summer programs bring back W&M grades.)You must obtain faculty approval of transfer credit for each class you take abroad.Any federal or state financial aid you receive and almost all scholarships may be used foryour study abroad.The GEO staff are always available to answer your questions and help you work throughissues that may arise as you plan your study abroad. You may stop by the office (next tothe Campus Center), visit the website89
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