<p>Yes. You can also visit there at your leisure. The school provides the buses for the 10-minute ride there, and the buses are quite frequent because a number of students go back & forth between Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon for classes.</p>
<p>i love this post…i feel like my mother only wants me to go here bc its supposedly ranked really high but i don’t feel like i want to go to a school that will stress me so hard and make me not enjoy college to the fullest. GW is still somewhere where i wanna go but it is great to hear insight from someone who actually went there.</p>
<p>I am interested in pre-med and want to know about the science programs at GW. I’m worried that the science departments are not as strong at the undergraduate level as other departments…How many undergraduate students get accepted into medical schools?</p>
<p>I don’t know where you may be able to get the info. re. how many GWU students get into med school. </p>
<p>However, as to your question on how good the science program is @ GWU, all I can tell you is that, based on what a number of GW students majoring in the sciences have said, the science courses are very difficult. </p>
<p>Also, the GWU med school is the 2nd most difficult med school to get into in the U.S.
(@ 3%; that is, “three percent” acceptance rate!)- checkout the April 11, 2011 edition of the school’s newspaper, The Hatchet). I can only assume that a number of the GWU pre-med students are working very hard for one of the spots in their own med school’s entering class. I can also only assume that these GWU pre-med students would not choose GWU if the school only had average science programs and would not increase, even if only slightly, their chances to be one of the 3%.</p>
<p>the $275 million science and engineering complex will be built by 2014/2015 and promises to be one of the finest science buildings in the country. the new school of public health and health sciences is also scheduled to be finished around then. these buildings coincide with the hiring of 60-100 new science and engineering faculty members (kicked off with the hire of nobel prize winner ferid murad who is teaching undergrads next year).</p>
<p>so science is about to go from being good to excellent by the time you’re upperclassmen</p>
<p>what are the llc’s like in term of social intercation with those not in the same community? do they all tend to hang out together or is there really no difference. i was thinking of joining the politics llc but i dont want to get stuck with just one group.</p>
<p>The living communities are non-existant. You may be tempted to ignore everyones advice and pick a dorm based on the theme, but its true, you do absolutely nothing with the themes</p>
<p>Regarding Econ 181 and 182, when should I take them? With which profs?</p>
<p>I’m sort of in the minority in my area in that I’m considering GW up in my top ten with Ivies and Georgetown. My parents (+ everyone else I talk to) consider GW basically a very very safe match for me, if not a safety. (We balk at anything higher than a 15% acceptance rate…) Thoughts?</p>
<p>Adopted Asian female from Maryland (DC suburbs holla!)
Competitive, nationally-recognized magnet program, rising senior
GPA: 3.99 unweighted (the one B was in a middle school class - so 4.0 if you’re county HS grades only)
SAT: 2300 (790,750,760) with 790 on Math 2 and 800s on USH and World H.
AP: 5s on U.S. Gov., CS A, Macro, Micro, Lang, World
EC: Youth and Government (elected Youth Lt. Governor of MD), National Honor Society (Treasurer), Volleyball (3 years), volunteer at the Newseum every other week, active in promoting the magnet program, currently interning at GWIPP. 
~230 hours of community service
Schedule: Taking three AP social studies (USH, Comp. Gov, Euro), the end of Calc BC, invitation-only honors English class.
Hook: … gay parents? Yeah, I guess that’s a hook. :\ Also both my parents attended, though only one actually graduated from here.</p>
<p>Also I made a thread for this, but any comments on the Economics/Public Policy 5-year program?</p>
<p>I didn’t take the time to read this entire thread so if this is a repeat question you have my apologies. </p>
<p>My question is, Are freshman allowed to bring cars? Or if the school doesn’t provide parking, are there spots one can rent anywhere? I ask because although there is a great public transit system, i plan to sky alot during the winters and i like to golf during spring and fall. Not to mention it would be nice to have a car for weekend trips ect.</p>
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I can’t think of anything I’d like less than a car in Foggy Bottom.</p>
<p>Wait, yes, I can. Less than that, I’d like my 18-year-old to have a car in Foggy Bottom.</p>
<p>I am not being facetious when I suggest that if you really want a freshman experience that would be incomplete without an automobile, GW might not be the setting you’re looking for.</p>
<p>But I believe you’ll find your answer (which is “no”) here: <a href=“http://my.gwu.edu/files/policies/ParkingRestrictionsFINAL.pdf[/url]”>On-Campus Parking Restrictions | Office of Ethics, Compliance, and Risk | The George Washington University;
<p>Commercial parking near Foggy Bottom seems to cost about $250 per month or more. I thought it would be more. (Did you try Googling “monthly parking Foggy Bottom”?)</p>
<p>I just went on a tour and they specifically said no cars for freshmen.
Honestly, I have an internship here now, and it’d be a hassle. Take the Metro, take the buses, and borrow an upperclassman’s car if you need it.</p>
<p>Sorry, been busy. Will try to answer questions soon.</p>
<p>As for cars, parking is both limited and expensive. It’s fun to have a car for weekend road trips and suburban grocery shopping. Most students don’t have cars here.</p>
<p>Cutedanzr4-
I’m glad. Gw and other colleges are a good match for some people, bad for others. Gw, in many ways, is not a typical college experience or town. You’ll have to decide what you want in a scool- suburbs, city,expensibe, cheap, away from home, local, and one where students compete with each other for school/resume/internships or a school that’s more fun and relaxed.</p>
<p>@gwgrad:</p>
<p>On the very first page I saw you said that GWU was very expensive. Did you mean the tuition or the actual city?</p>
<p>Regardless, could you elaborate on the cost of living in the surrounding city excluding tuition? Such as rent in off-campus, etc etc?</p>
<p>How do students at GW dress? I’ve read that it isn’t a sweatpants and t-shirt kind of school, which is fine with me, but there’s a difference between that and designer clothing (which I’ve also heard).</p>
<p>I read some reviews that said it was JCrew and that sort of stuff. I’m not sure what that stuff is though XD</p>
<p>I live in the area and have noticed the leggings-Uggs-North Face/sweatshirt-Longchamp purse combination is popular.</p>
<p>From Ithaca College,
GPA: 3.8-3.9 range
SAT: 1780/2400 (a little lower than the average)
~White male, NY
~A pretty decent amount of ECs (high school and college level crew team, choral singer, honor roll student, Spanish/Spanish club member throughout high school; now taking Italian in college, many other clubs & organizations, community service hours, actual work experience, etc. etc.</p>
<p>what are the placements of GWU Business school? Particularly I am interested in MSIST program?</p>