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Ever since taking a UCF honors diplomacy course at The Burnett Honors College, Amanda Fleming ’15 dreamed of working as a diplomat. Armed with a 4.0 GPA and international work experience, the political science major took steps to make herself competitive for a position in the U.S. Foreign Service, but with the current hiring freeze in the State Department, this…