"We were hosted in a student flat and given a 200 Canadian dollar allowance to cover the meals. For transportation, Montreal for my case is a metropolitan with a great subway and bus system. Otherwise, in different LCs, an exchange student would need a car to get around which the CPs and/or hosts took care of for my other Incoming friends. For the social program, we visited Quebec city and a went hiking in a couple of falls outside Montreal. We also visited the lovely cities that are near them. I spent a total $600 on my exchange not accounting for the allowance and my plain ticket. I was on a SCORE exchange and the upside was that at no point it felt like a disguised SCOPE exchange. However, the mentorship was not the best. My tutor was busy with grad students and the lab I was working at was off for summer break. So I did my work mostly remotely. My tutor was kind enough to offer resources I could rely on to understand the tasks I was given but did not have the time to guide me and explain things to me personally."