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[quote=Anonymous]OP - it's hard to ask this question in a DMV centric forum because most local kids want to go away for college and therefore local kids won't want to go to any of these schools as a top choice.

From what I can have seen from DMV:

Some high stats students will include a Georgetown application - especially if they are interested in IR or political science (maybe other humanities).  These students are not likely to also include AU or GWU, even if they like IR - because they are gunning for T20 and they can consider Tufts or other schools that are more prestigious overall than AU/GWU.

Students that are not in the high stats category may throw a GWU/AU application in the mix. I don't know so many of those kids, so I don't know if they apply to both. They are very different living experiences for sure.

There could be high stats kids throwing in AU/GWU apps looking for aid - and I don't know how that plays out in terms of whether one is more generous than the other - or equally generous.  And, kids coming from Walls who took GW courses have potentially a large number of credits already earned.

But for kids outside of DMV - these schools are pretty different in terms of on campus living and the student body and add Jesuit factor for Georgetown.  It's similar to comparing Boston schools - when you look at BC, BU, Tufts, Northeastern, Brandeis, Emerson - they are quite different places even for someone who "wants to go to school in Boston" (purposely removed Harvard/MIT for elite status that exceeds others by a lot...including Georgetown... and removed Wellesley because it's not coed)[/quote]

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