<p>I have a similar ?. I'm gtown class of 2011, I applied to the college mainly because at the time I was applying I didn't have a concrete idea of what I wanted to study in college+ future grad school/career path. But now I have pretty much decided I want to study/go into business, law, or politics. Should I try to transfer to sfs (i.e. would an sfs grad be more tantalizing in the corporate/legal world?) and if so how do I transfer? Just send a letter to the dean...?</p>
<p>Copley - I am very interested in your comment that Georgetown will pay for study of a foreign language not offered at Georgetown. I don't see anything about that on the SFS website, and no one mentioned that at the SFS visit (and my daughter did mention that she has been studying a language not offered there). Is this info they don't publicize for some reason? Or am I missing it on the school website somehow? Thx!</p>
<p>It's not mentioned because even if Georgetown doesn't offer the language, it's likely that a school in the Consortium does. This really only comes up generally with some indigenous languages. </p>
<p>I'm not sure if they state this anywhere or not, but it's definitely something they mention at the GAAP weekends as far as I remember. The idea behind it is that you should be studying what you want for your major, so if it requires knowledge of that language obviously they'll do everything they can to accomodate you.</p>
<p>Mmm, I'm not sure anyone in the consortium teaches Finnish... But I am not sure which schools are in the consortium, so we haven't checked. But there are only a few colleges in the US that teach it, GW and American definitely do not. Like I said, they did not mention any options in the SFS information session (which was a pretty small, intimate group that day), just encouraged her to use her French to finish up the language requirement (which is definitely not the language she would choose to study, but she is taking it in high school - but also has some high school Finnish credits as well).</p>