Login Cart Login Cart Contact Assist

 

Mission & Goals


To promote mutual understanding, cultural interchange and a more peaceful world, ASSIST provides opportunities for outstanding international students to attend the finest American independent secondary schools on one-year scholarships, and for students and teachers from these schools to engage in educational experiences abroad.

ASSIST is a nonprofit organization with tax-exempt status incorporated in the state of Vermont. ASSIST is designated by the United States State Department as an authorized Exchange Visitor Program. ASSIST is also able to facilitate the issuance of the J-1 visa under which our students study in the U.S. for one academic year on Exchange Visitor status.

ASSIST does not discriminate, nor does it condone harassment, on the basis of gender, race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, disability, age, sexual orientation or any other basis proscribed by applicable policies or laws.

The vision of ASSIST is to create a worldwide circle of future leaders – friends who have come to know and respect one another and one another’s culture through sharing a year of study and living together.

We believe that connecting future American leaders with future leaders of other nations makes a substantial contribution to diminishing misunderstandings that so frequently occur across national boundaries, cultures, racial designations and religious beliefs. International outreach begins with individual relationships – relationships established through a year of academic and cultural immersion which are designed to affect peers, teachers, friends, family members and business associates for a lifetime.

As we are poised on the edge of an uncertain historical period, the intent of ASSIST is to continue to broaden our role in fostering peace and understanding across national divides. We believe that now, more than ever, nurturing humane leaders through cross-cultural interchange affords a unique opportunity to influence the course of future world events in a positive direction.

Upcoming Events

Bookmark and Share


  Date   Venue Location Presale Date Status





 

Assist Launches its 41st Year

 

  • The Class of 2009/10 – 121 Scholars from 16 Countries/Regions
  • 77 independent secondary schools currently participate from all over the U.S.
  • More than 3,800 alumni
  • 44 countries represented over 40 years

Department of state telephone number is 1-866-283-9090. The toll free number can be used by host families, exchange students and the public to report circumstances impacting the students' health, safety and well being during their exchange visitor programs.

Noted below are materials regarding scholarships to study in the U.S., including downloads of our Information Brochures and Application and Recommendation Forms.

Information Brochures (PDFs)
Student Brochure
Why ASSIST?
Class of 08/09 Report

For more information and to apply for an ASSIST Scholarship, click here.

Student Application and Recommendation Forms
German candidates, click here to be redirected to ASSIST Germany application materials.

ASSIST Application Form (PDF)
English Teacher Recommendation Form (PDF)
Mathematics Teacher Recommendation Form (PDF)
School Administraion Recommendation Form (PDF)
Application Checklist (PDF)

The documents on this page are presented in Adobe's Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF). To view a PDF file, you must first download a PDF viewer by clicking the "Get Acrobat Reader" icon to the right.