Uni Year Abroad Question - USA

Hi,
I’m in my final year of sixth form in the UK, but when I go to university I want to take a year abroad and go to America or Canada (but right now, I have more of a preference for the US). Uni-wise, I’m specifically looking at Warwick and East Anglia to study English and Creative Writing. East Anglia, ever so miraculously, do an English and Creative Writing with a Year Abroad course, with lots of options to study in the USA. It feels perfect for me to be honest. But I’m wondering - how likely is it that I’ll actually be able to study in the USA? Statistically speaking, because I only want to go to the US (or Canada as a second choice). Would I need to consider studying in other countries too for the sake of being realistic? Should I talk to the universities of Warwick and East Anglia specifically about this? Or should I accept that I can’t guarantee myself that I’ll be able to study in America/Canada? I just want to know if I can or cannot guarantee myself that and get my hopes up if it’s just a game of chance.
Thank you!

Hello @snow-bear
That is great that you want to do a Year Abroad! I also did a Year Abroad in Switzerland and Germnay (Split-Semesters) as part of my undergraduate studies at the University of East Anglia. UEA have lots of options worldwide and many of my friends went to the US and is a fairly popular choice. I am sure there will be places at US universities and you can make that known that you are really interested to the study-abroad coordinators.
If you would like to contact UEA study abroad please visit our webpage: https://www.uea.ac.uk/study/study-abroad-and-exchange. This will also provide you with further information.
If you have any further questions please let me know
UEA Rep Lucy
MSc Banking and Finance, BSc Economics with a Year Abroad

in your 2nd year your school will give you the options of unis which you can choose to study at for your year abroad. The options may change every year but there will always be more than one US/Canadian University as an option to study at - but it depends how popular your choice is whether you get it or not. Also the requirements for your application to be successful are different for every uni which is worth looking into. My uni (cardiff) do it based on grades throughout the year, but ik other unis ie nottingham consider factors like attendance.

Hi Lucy, thank you so much, that is so useful to know! Can I ask another question about EA, but not so much about the year abroad? How is the social life there? Have you found it easy to make friends who have the same interests as you? I haven’t heard many people going to EA and I was wondering if it was a university you would go to if you had a “niche”-ish subject, and therefore would make friends really similar to you. Hope that makes sense. And I’ve never been to Norwich so I was wondering about the social life there aswell. Thank you!

Hi,
I’m in my final year of sixth form in the UK, but when I go to university I want to take a year abroad and go to America or Canada (but right now, I have more of a preference for the US). Uni-wise, I’m specifically looking at Warwick and East Anglia to study English and Creative Writing. East Anglia, ever so miraculously, do an English and Creative Writing with a Year Abroad course, with lots of options to study in the USA. It feels perfect for me to be honest. But I’m wondering - how likely is it that I’ll actually be able to study in the USA? Statistically speaking, because I only want to go to the US (or Canada as a second choice). Would I need to consider studying in other countries too for the sake of being realistic? Should I talk to the universities of Warwick and East Anglia specifically about this? Or should I accept that I can’t guarantee myself that I’ll be able to study in America/Canada? I just want to know if I can or cannot guarantee myself that and get my hopes up if it’s just a game of chance.
Thank you!