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Anonymous wrote:GW is where rich people send their kids who didn't get into Ivies.

There is a big gap between the Ivies and GW with far more attractive schools than GW in the middle. GW is basically for NY and NJ parents who'll pay a huge amount of money to avoid saying their kids go to SUNY-Binghamton, Hofstra, and Rutgers.

Generally true, but not in DC. I am a GW alum with two class of 2024s. One got waitlisted but is going to a top SLAC, got into another top SLAC, etc. Second kid going to a top 5 but got money from GW. That being said I agree, if you are willing to move around, my higher stat kid got money from GW but more from Tulane, and a couple others. At the end it wasn't enough money to make a difference (I am willing to pay). I am a large donor to GW and did not go to bat for them because I knew they would end up at a higher ranked school (especially after Tulane EA).

But...lot of kids want to come to DC/stay in DC for the political atmosphere. When I applied, you could have given me a free ride to Harvard and I wouldn't have gone. When I didn't get into Georgetown, I wanted GW. The only school I thought of transferring to was Georgetown even though due to my activity in College I could have realistically transferred to Dartmouth, Emory, and a couple others. But they weren't in DC.

You get Potomac Fever.

Georgetown is still hard so that makes GW and AU appealing. My high stats kid who is going to a top 5 was WL at Gtown. May be it was yield protection. She would have probably taken Gtown LOL...close to home good for studying poli sci/government.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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).

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.

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

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.

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Anonymous wrote:GW is where rich people send their kids who didn't get into Ivies.

There is a big gap between the Ivies and GW with far more attractive schools than GW in the middle. GW is basically for NY and NJ parents who'll pay a huge amount of money to avoid saying their kids go to SUNY-Binghamton, Hofstra, and Rutgers.