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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I’m going to be blunt.  You and your son are dreaming and need to be way more practical and realistic.

Who doesn’t “love to travel?”  Who doesn’t want to study abroad?  That doesn’t mean a 3.0 student with an eye towards Towson can reasonably plan on a career in international relations and expect to make a living at it.  It’s like saying you’re going to be a veterinarian because you like playing with cats and dogs.

One of my daughters was a Peace Corps volunteer in Central America.  She had a BS in biology from a top ranked national university and a masters in public health.  They’re looking for folks with useful degrees and practical training.  They’re not hiring future diplomats.

I have another kid who’s bilingual in English and Spanish, also attended a top 20 school in the US, lived and worked and volunteered abroad for nearly a decade, and has a masters degree in international development with honors from one of the top universities in the UK.  Despite all of that, finding a job in the international arena that would have worked for her financially were she a single person or the primary breadwinner (she’s married to a high earner) has been impossible.

This is reality, OP.  Average students who go to Towson and have no practical training don’t get invited into the Peace Corps and don’t land jobs in international relations.  Sorry.  They don’t.

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You are completely wrong.[/quote]

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