"Well you can have native fluency and max all aspects of testing, but just don't be a homo."
Funny you should say that - back in 1986 when I decided to leave the Army and join the AF as a Russian linguist my CWO said to me, "Why the hell do you want to go out to DLI (the Defense Language Institute)? That place is filled with freaks and fa**!" And frankly, there were quite a bit of, hmm, how to put it, "artistic" types out there...
Nothing like that when I was there -- MUCH earlier. (It was still Army Language School.) Monterey was pretty artsy :-)