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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GWU benefits from its location, pure and simple.  If she is coming all the way to DC to get a DC experience, there is no other school to consider -- even Georgetown.  Georgetown and AU are fine schools in lovely neighborhoods, but is that why she would move almost 3000 miles to a city where careers are based on connections and moving-and-shaking?  Heck, if she wants to be in a lovely neighborhood outside of the action she should be looking at Pepperdine and Northwestern. [/quote]

This is a really odd and misinformed comment. Being within walking distance of the State Dept (GW) does not give a school an advantage over one that is within metro distance (AU). [/quote]

Maybe odd, but not misinformed.  I knew Lloyd Elliot well before they named my school after him.  GW is central; the others are not.  You are a short walk to State, sure, but also to the IMF, World Bank, the IDB, Interior, K Street, the Fed, OAS, OEOB, etc.  If a GW grad doesn’t have a strong resume by graduation, it was by choice.  The IMF and World Bank are a block from the freshman dorm. [/quote]

proximity =/= getting hired.  I'm an AU grad and I know many other AU grads at the World Bank (I've been there 20+ years). I know only a couple of GW grads.  Keep in mind, I'm not talking about undergraduates but graduate students[/quote]

Bingo, a hiring person in that cluster on Penn. ave. wouldn't look at the resume and say, "oh, look at this mediocre student from GW, I wouldn't hire him but damn his dorm is just up the block, let's hire him!"  But generally speaking, AU has a better reputation/alumni network among international NGO employers. [/quote]

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