<p>Hi! i'm deciding btwn.
GWU Business School
U S. Carolina Honor's on nearly full ride in Moore Business (it's no. 1 in international business...but the downside is that it's in sc where i'm from)
and I havn't heard anything from NYU Stern</p>
<p>I've never actually visited GWU, although I've been to DC a number of times...
so it's hard for me to decide.</p>
<p>would anyone who's visited/ currently attends take a moment and tell me their fav. thing...or least favorite thing about GWU?</p>
<p>i figure this will help other people deciding too :-)</p>
<p>GW doesn't have a campus feel exactly. You know when you are on campus because the students are everywhere but if you hid all of the students I don't think it would occur to anyone that it was a university. It is more like a neighborhood. Colonial is right, it has a very urban feel. When you visited DC, did you go anywhere other than the mall and the monuments? Did you use the metro and the buses to go explore. DC is crowded 365 days a year. You have to love what it has to offer to make it worth living there.</p>
<p>yeh i went there in mid school a couple of times to do the whole "see DC" type thing...went to the museums, monuments, etc...it wasn't too crowded at the time and we were all ushered together in a group
i remember briefly seeing a wall with "George Washington University" written on it as i walked passed...and that's pretty much all i ever noticed</p>
<p>in high school i visited several of the embassies with MUN...DC was crowded and it took forever for our bus to get anywhere. I dropped by later with family on the way north.</p>
<p>needless to say i didn't see much of anything other than what had to get done</p>
<p>i'm kind of an odd person about urban settings...i grew up in Cola. South Carolina...but then moved to Guangzhou, China (official population of 10 million...with a migrant population of 4 million...that's 14 million people) so i've grown to like cities, but i still like to have my "nest" persay....a place to escape. will i be able to have this?</p>
<p>Yeah, you kinda have that chance. Kogan Plaza is a nice park in the middle of campus. It's very, very small though. Also, there's a nice workout center, and The Mt. Vernon campus. It's still in DC and about a 10 minute commute, but it's a completely different feel. It's in NW DC on Foxhall road. A shuttle runs there 24 hours a day. It's very green, and doesn't even feel like a city. There's tennis courts, an outdoor pool, quiet library, a soccer field, ropes course, and baseball field. There's also dormitories and smaller classes taught there. You can still use the amenities of MV even if you live in Foggy Bottom.</p>
<p>i've grown to like cities, but i still like to have my "nest" persay....a place to escape. will i be able to have this?</p>
<p>It doesn't seem to provide much opportunity to escape at all to me but I am no expert. I got the feeling that there is something happening practically 24 hrs a day, a kind of a big swirling sea of humantiy. Why don't you run up and check it out?</p>
<p>hehe, the gym facilities sound really nice.
i'm big into martial arts (wing chun and karate too)
i'd go check it out in a heartbeat but i live in China :-)
i'm definitally trying to talk my parents into a visit though :-p</p>
<p>Some of the dormitories are on Virginia Ave across fro the Watergate. The river is right there and the C&O Canal. Bike or hike up the Canal and you will soon think you are in the middle of nowhere. Plus the Mall is lots of open green space. You can bike across Memorial bridge nd get miles of bike trails all the way to Mt Vernon. The subway is right on campus. I went there 30 years ago and loved the location. Its even better now.</p>
<p>:-)
city and no-whereness
that sounds good
yeh, i've heard that they're taking the HOVA dorm away from froshies in few years...but i don't have to worry about that if i go next year :-)
thanks!</p>