1. People don't "lose a month" for the SATs. From what I remember, we just took them at some point during the Fall (August - November). Students will usually be preparing for that before their last year of high school (Grade 12), some even start preparing when they first start high school (Grade 9) or even before then.It depends if you are a repeater and the school is the school and the university is the university, that is what the SAT is for and many people lose a month preparing for those exams because I don't know that you are a repeater
And it usually starts in August and ends in May, in short, seven months and some other universities are up to eight months ,But not all universities are the same ...There are those who measure studies in semesters, other quarterly periods and others in trimesters.
Not to mention that there are people who start their studies in July with the summer session.
If the game is based in Pennsylvania the start day is July 2nd for the summer session. But normally it starts on the tenth of August.
2. There are no trimesters in US schools to my knowledge. We have the fall semester (August - December) then Spring (January - May). While in university, you can take courses during the winter and summer breaks (which are confusingly called winter and summer semesters/quarters/sessions) However, no school I've ever applied to has ever offered starting during those times and will only allow you to start during the Fall or transfer in the Spring semester.
--However, Winter sessions and Summer sessions don't have the same time span as Fall and Spring. Winter is usually like a month because that's usually how long the winter break lasts and Summer is usually from June to August for the same reasons. They're not really full semesters/quarters or whatever, they're just kind of squeezed in between Fall and Spring during the breaks.
3. People usually start their time at universities in the Fall semester. That's what being depicted in the game as there's a crowd of new students at the orientation.
4. Quarters are however offered in US universities as well. I'm not too familiar with them but I know they usually start the Fall quarter around September.
5. I'm not sure what you mean by "repeater" but for US schools, if you failed your last year of high school then you'd have to repeat the whole year ... so you'd still start university the same as everyone else. Fall semester. If a "repeater" is someone that didn't get accepted to any university of their choosing then they'd still most likely either take some classes at community college and transfer into the Spring semester or wait a year and transfer into the Fall semester.
So I'm not really sure if you might just be mixing some things up or looking things up to fill in the gaps but I'm still kind of not sure about what you're trying to say. I have to stress I swear, I'm not trying to be condescending. I can't stress that enough. I'm trying to explain things properly because I have a feeling this confusion might just be a simple cultural difference. It's just that any text-based communication is going to make things lose any nuance.
Now even if we follow what you said about starting in July, it still doesn't add up with what you said.
- It's been acknowledged multiple times that (in-game) we haven't even had Halloween yet. The hype around ep 9 is partly due to the Halloween-themed stuff we'll see.
- I actually got confused when you said "almost a year" but I'm going to put that aside because even your shortest estimate of 6 months still doesn't seem to add up.
- You said, it'd been 6 months since MC talked to Bella about Zoey. Let's say they had that conversation at the beginning of July, then 6 months would push us way past Halloween and into January.
- Even if you meant, since Zoey left for San Diego rather than MC talking to Bella about Zoey that still doesn't add up because high schools usually end for summer vacation either in May or June but usually in June. 6 months from May puts us at November. Also ... I think MC is supposed to be a year younger than Zoey so it would've been over a year anyway since she had left because he had to finish high school first.
- So even if we did start in July, what the other guy said "2 to 2.5 months" still makes more sense than 6 months because 2 months from July puts you in September which is still before October.
- I'm guessing it's somewhere in the Northeast since that's usually where all the small, private schools are concentrated. Usually. Also the "blue-blood" theme the Preps give off make me think of that stereotype of rich WASPs vacationing at Martha's Vineyard. Then again ... Zoey took a train to San Diego so it could also be set somewhere on the west coast but idk.
- Edit: I don't agree with your guess that it's in Pennsylvania. They definitely have small schools spread out but they're not ... where you'd send your upper-middle to upper class children if you could just get them into Penn State or even U Penn, but one's a large public school and the other is an Ivy.
- Some scenes give us some clues about where they are and what month it could be. Josy gets cold on their first date and needs a sweater (before he started at university). Even in Pennsylvania, you're not going to be THAT cold right in the middle of summer. It's most likely going to be August or coming up on September because it's still warm but the nights and mornings start getting cooler. (As a side note: parts of Pennsylvania do get cold quicker but again, those aren't where the rich kids are going and the towns are small and podunk).
- That's why I'm thinking that the university MC is at (B&R) runs on a quarterly system because their exams come up faster than universities with semesters and have courses that end before December (Jade's Gender Studies class). (Which could also make a case for it being on the west coast since universities there typically have quarterly systems).
- I think it's only been about 1.5 to 2 months depending on when he started exactly which puts us in the middle of October or at least very close to the end of it if he started anywhere between the end of August and September. I know that sounds really fast but that's also why I think it's a university with a quarterly system because my first thought about when I heard students at those universities had already taken their final exams for some courses and it was like the middle of October was "Wow, that's fast."
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