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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Getting rid of the exam is wild. The best people. [/quote]

There have long been complaints about the exam. A republican-tied career ambassador told me that he found it impossible to get his best people through it and they were limited to other functions. In general, the selection process does seem to favor bland personalities. [/quote]

Because the GOP hates competency and intelligence. The FSO exam separates the wheat from the chaff in terms of weighing knowledge and temperment to ensure the career diplomats truly represent the best of our country and not partisan loyalty.[/quote]

The exam is biased towards liberal world view. [/quote]

Only a MAGA woiuld make that claim.

If you mean, in order to pass the Foreign Service exam, you have to have an understanding of history, diplomacy, negotiating tactics and foreign language expertise - in other words, [b]you have to be educated, then sure, that is liberal[/b][b], with a small "l."  But the test does not slant towards "democrats" or "liberals" in the political sense.[/quote]

- wait: the “education” part you mentioned tends to come overwhelmingly from a small number of specific institutions: Columbia, Georgetown University, and American University.

Answer this please:

Do Columbia, Georgetown, and American trend more progressive in their world view? Or more conservative?  Be honest.[/quote]

Wrong. Those three schools are not on the list for the top 25 Colleges who produce Peace Corps volunteers. Top 25 Peace Corps Producing Colleges and Universities. Many on DCUM would consider some of them indeed more conservative, others progressive. 
 https://www.peacecorps.gov/about-the-agency/media-center/news/peace-corps-announces-list-of-historically-top-volunteer-producing-colleges-and-universities/ [/quote]

Have you always struggled with basic reading comprehension?  We were discussing the Foreign Service Exam, not the peace corps.[/quote]

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