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My friend (also in my chapter) is actually waiting for her first embassy assignment in DC! She is part of a 90 person diplomat officer class. I don't know all the particulars, but I know she passed both the written and the oral exams (the written hung over, at that!), and then had to go through a 7 month security clearance by the State Department. I was one of her personal refrences, and a guy with a very official looking badge came to my house to ask me about her (does she have foreign friends?).
The one thing she told me that helped her was her summer internship. She did one at the American embassy in Milan the summer before she took the oral test. So when they asked her about situations, she had already been in some of them.
Good Luck!!!
-Michelle
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