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[quote=Anonymous][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.  [b]Keep in mind, I'm not talking about undergraduates but graduate students[/b][/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]

That makes more sense for grad school, where students may live throughout the city, have greater means, and more maturity.  But for your average undergraduate, who lives on campus, the ability to walk to an internship will often make a significant difference in whether or not s/he takes the internship in the first place and then gets there on time.  Proximity matters.  Location, location, location -- to coin a phrase. [/quote]

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