<p>I wish I would have expressed my attraction to the Political Theory--which over the past few months I have fallen in love with--in my essay. Few schools offer a major devoted entirely to Political Theory and I think I really would have killed the essay had I chosen that instead...still I think I wrote a magnificant piece about my passion for Arabic.</p>
<p>But I wish I could send an suplement in the mail expressing my thoughts on Political Theory. Would this be a good idea, perhaps? Or would my essay become a recyclable forthwith?</p>
<p>I'll probally write it regardless, just you know, like to get some thoughts?</p>
<p>hey...illmatic...this is apparently an old thread but I was debating whether or not I should continue with French (try to become fluent in the languauge) or take arabic, (I know a few arabic words and can read and write the languauge...can't understand much) do you have any idea how tough the arabic courses would be at georgetown?</p>
<p>They're tough as hell - I lived with a girl who was taking Arabic this year, and it's an "intensive" language. Basically, you have class 4 or 5 days a week in addition to going to the language lab. Arabic, Chinese, and Russian are all intensive. I'll be starting my second year of Chinese next year (first year was at my old institution) and I have no illusions about how time-consuming it will be... According to GU, I've completed my language requirement, so I won't need to take a language placement exam (fully fluent in French - went to a bilingual HS), but I really want another language, and I don't want to give up the two semesters of Chinese that I've already taken.</p>
<p>Allyblue, I took six years of French in middle and high school, lived one year in Belgium, and I would say that I am quite competent in French. I mentioned my fluency on the application, and I spoke French with my interviewer. What process must I undertake to bypass the language placement exam/language requirements?</p>
<p>There was no "official" process for me, but I can't speak for everyone. I received all of my transfer-of-credit and gen. ed. requirement information last year (when I was first accepted), and the sheet that listed my status in terms of general ed. courses stated that I had already completed my language requirement - there was just a check on the "Fulfilled" line. I only provided GU with my course descriptions, and did not specifically ask to have the language requirement marked as completed; in fact, I was anticipating just taking the placement exam and testing out of the requirement. This may have had something to do with the fact that I earned an A in the highest available French language course during the first semester of my freshman year in college. Basically, I had no other courses to take. </p>
<p>I would guess that if you have taken French in college and earned a reasonable grade in an intermediate or advanced course, you'll be exempted. It's strange, though... I took that course two and a half years ago, and have not spoken the language on a regular basis in the time since, so I'm losing my French rapidly... I thought it was sort of odd that I didn't need to take the exam. If you haven't taken French in college, then you're probably stuck taking the placement exam - if you are fluent, it should be no problem for you. It's just an hour on a Saturday, according to the orientation schedule - I wouldn't worry. about it.</p>
<p>Also, the interviewers usually have very little impact on the whole admissions process, so whatever they mention in their form (whether you spoke French with them and so forth) does not matter all that much. Furthermore, their comments and the rest of your application (aside from the transcript and course desciptions) is not given to the Dean of Students by Admissions - they don't disseminate that information.</p>
<p>Also, illmatic... I was just looking over your initial post and thought you might want to know that Georgetown (the College, at least) does not have a Political Theory major. There is a minor in Political Thought and a J&P interdisciplinary major, but no real major in Political Theory. You could probably arrange a personalized interdisplinary major in this sort of this sort of thing, but there is no standardized major existing at this point in time.</p>
<p>Hey ally thanks for the heads up on Arabic, my brother is fluent in the language and he took it for two years non-stop (not in a traditional college)...i took four years of french in highschool and it's been two years since I've even attempted speaking it and since I never took AP i have yet to fulfill the language requirement for GU, but I'm assuming fluency won't be the measure of whether or not you've fulfilled the req. But I would love to learn Arabic...even if it will take a lot more of my time, maybe I can pick up some grammar over the summer. I had to take French since it was the only language available at the highschool I started at...but what exactly do you do at a language lab, and how many hours a week did you put in studying Chinese at your old school?</p>
<p>I still have not committed to Georgetown due certain qualms. Is it possible if I could contact you over AIM? I am close to putting down my deposit, but I still have some slight doubts.</p>