Nope. Your first payment towards your program fee, Payment 1, ($500) is due with your application. And Payment 2 ($1,000) is due 30 days from the time you are officially assigned to a location. Payment 3, the remaining balance, is due about 2-3 months prior to departure.

There are several options for taking care of those payments, and we’ll talk you through everything so that you can make the best choice for your situation. First, we have a few options for payment plans. It might work better for you to make monthly payments leading up to departure (essentially the earlier you start, the smaller your monthly payments are), or even go now and pay your program fee after your semester by working with Affirm.

If you would like to pay your program fee right away, there is a $50 discount (for paying in full within 3 weeks of your acceptance).

We really want to do what we can to help make this realistic for you. If you can’t make payments until you start a summer job, we can help you pick a payment plan that matches up with your paychecks when your job begins. While there are some specific payment deadlines (like when your flight needs to be purchased), our payment plans are set up to help keep you on track — but we are here to be flexible. Just let us know what’s going on and we can do our best to work with your situation.