6 days a week and no promise that your one day is will be a weekend. We did have one 3 day stretch, but most of us were host focused on studying for the oral. I didn't go home (flights into VPS weren't favorable for it anyway). I wanted to bring the family here for the holiday weekend, but it looks like we are working through that. That's all fine, just don't expect to have time off or make plans during or right after the training footprint.

And I recommend some pre-study. Had I known this program is mostly self study, I would have tried to give myself a leg up earlier. Actually, I tried, I just didn't do very good at it (life happens). But I would have pushed harder if I knew what the program was really like. You get 4-5 days of actual instruction before the oral, the rest you learn on your own. You might get lucky and be in the AQP program and just do the test instead of oral. Not sure exactly when that starts.