Hi all. I don't really post on these forums, but i'm a Sophomore International Relations major. I applied for NSLI-Y (Russian) a couple years ago and was a semi-finalist, was gonna apply for CLS Turkish but didn't end up applying last year. I applied for Russian this year because it used to be at least two years of study(not one) and I will have a year of Russian before the program start date. I'm aware that its competitive but I gave my essays a lot of thought but still thought they were average. I ended up submitting but felt like I could have done more. Considering I work almost full-time and a full-time student I probably put it off too much, but we'll see in a month or so.. Any other Russian applicants?