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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here, also with a kid pursuing IR at a well regarded but not top 20 university.

I am one who typically thinks you can find a path to anything if determined enough, but this thread is making me rethink it in the IR space (with which I have no familiarity). Several of you are making it sound like the only employable people in the field have ivy league degrees. I know someone who graduated JMU who is an FSO. Now I am wondering if they are a unicorn …[/quote]

Does the person who went to JMU have hard to find language skills or some other attribute? I think IR is about as snobby as you get for career fields, but a US citizen who can get a clearance and is natively fluent in Mandarin/Arabic/Hindi/Russian... is going to get into the foreign service ahead of an Ivy classics major whose taken a bunch of French classes [/quote]

they do not! [/quote]

what did you get on the fsot 
critical language skills are massive[/quote]

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