I really wanted to do this this summer, but I have come to a bad conclusion.
First of all I wondered why there were hardly any testimonials and previous experience info on this program online. So I looked on facebook and came across the Bunac Work America 2009 group where I read constant sad messages:
-Do not go to America without a job as you will not find one, employers do not want foreign students with visa limitations.
-Do not go to any of the big cities if you are earning $9 an hour, you will struggle to survive.
Infact the only positive reviews I keep hearing about this program comes from posters with hardly any previous posts, really questionable motives.
Frankly, I have found that World Wide Cultural Exchange or something with rigid links to good companies is probably better off to apply with.
That or I'll just go back to my summer camp job, it's all in the air.
Bunac also IMO are poor with what work they can arrange other than what is in their job directory, I specifically asked about jobs at a particular theme park and whether they had relations there, I then got a really banal email back outlining the program quite generally.
Last year they forgot to send of my CRB for about a month, just great.