<p>After speaking with an uncle who used to work for NSA, he recommended I try to get a job with NSA after college. I love studying languages, and the idea of using my love of language for good is very intriguing. I would like to apply for this program: Summer</a> Language Program in my sophomore year of college, and I'm looking for a college that will enable me to join the program. </p>
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I'm a junior in high school. I had a rough first semester of junior year due to illness, and my unweighted GPA dropped from 3.5 to 3.3, but should go back up as I'm no longer feeling ill and can devout my time and energy into high school. I'm projected to make a 24 or higher on the ACT. I take CP level classes. All information of my 7th, 8th, and 9th grade years were lost during a move (I had been home schooled those years, taking rather difficult courses. Upon entering public high school, my records could not be found and I had to make up all my freshman year credits), and at the start of sophomore year I was placed in Standard level classes. Since then I have raised my level in all classes to CP, and if I had more time I'm positive they would be moved up further. I'm a member of Debate Club and Art Club. I'm graduating early despite feeling better, so I can take some time off to spend on my mental and physical health. Both my parents are unemployed and neither own a home, so my father and I live with an uncle and my mother lives with a friend. The cheaper the better, but I'm willing to take out loans to go to a good school, no matter how much it costs. I have been unable to find a college in Tennessee, where I currently live, offering Middle Eastern languages.</p>
<p>If you can’t afford college, consider joining the navy. The language school has an immersion program that is fabulous and you get paid to go to school. The signup length is 6 years, but 2 years of that will be boot camp and school. After that you get to practice your language as a translator. After you get out, the navy will pay for you to finish college if that’s what you want. My cousin did this and he is just now graduating and has been posted to GA for 4 years. Doesn’t even have to go overseas.</p>
<p>To Ricegal: I would love to join the Navy, but I’m transgendered. I’d have to hide that I was transgendered, and I don’t want to do that anymore.</p>
<p>The Universities of Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and Maryland all have programs in Arabic. At Maryland, I know you can also take Farsi.</p>
<p>A number of private schools have good programs as well but most of them are very selective. Yale, Penn, Georgetown, Tufts, and Middlebury all come to mind as highly-selective schools with Arabic language majors.</p>
<p>Slightly less selective, but costly, would be American U, Brandeis and George Washington.</p>
The good news is that languages are rarely as difficult to find as people think (unless they’re obscure ancient ones, in which case only a handful of highly selective colleges offer them). </p>
<p>The LCTL database is a wonderful tool that includes any school that someone would suggest plus many more. It says, for example, that no fewer than 67 colleges offer Farsi. According to its database, MTSU, U Memphis, and Vanderbilt offer Arabic. Some of them offer only two or three years, so you might have to make up the difference with independent or group independent studies, which are usually readily available.</p>
<p>I recommend the following summer program for picking up other Middle Eastern languages:</p>
<p>All of DeskPotato’s suggestions are out of your range (some of them by quite a bit) with a 24 ACT. If you score at least a 28, several of them would be more feasible.</p>
<p>Are you looking for mainly arabic, or languages like kurdish and farsi? i’m only considering schools that offer arabic and i think most schools do, but if you want the other languages you’ll have to look more carefully. i don’t really know how to search for colleges with arabic other than looking at the particular college’s website, but i searched for them by using the supermatch engine and asking for schools that offer any of the majors like arabic literature, middle eastern studies, islamic studies, etc.
hope that helps! :)</p>