<p>got accepted into Fordham and GWU.
I want to study business.</p>
<p>Fordham is in NYC, which is an amazing city. I'm an international student and my father recently bought an apartment in Manhattan which is 20 minutes away by car for Rose Hill Campus. So I guess my parents will be coming to NYC at least two weeks every year/ And since my dad has businesses in NYC, I will have a high chance of getting a great internship.</p>
<p>As for GWU, it is in DC, and the location is tempting enough for me. It is ranked higher than Fordham and has a more international student body. I will be really far from home, and therefore I'll need a good amount of friends to keep me going.
Dc is two to three hours away from NYC by car, so I'm not sure how much I'll be seeing my parents when they do go to NYC.</p>
<p>Any opinions or advice?
BTW I also got accepted at Baruch College, NEU, LMU and waitlisted at Babson.
I would really appreciate it if you share your thoughts.</p>
<p>I am at Fordham and I am having a great experience – my cousin went to GW and loved it there too. If you are in DC and your parents are in NY it is very easy to come up for a weekend visit (you can fly, take the train, or use a cheap bus service like Mega-bus or Bolt bus) so, although I can see why NY is appealing, I don’t think that should be a huge factor. NY and DC are both great cities.</p>
<p>One difference between the schools is that Fordham is a Jesuit school, Fordham with a large core curriculum (you can find it on the school website) that entails a good bit of writing which may or may not be a good thing for an international student. GW may have more international students but you can check that as well.</p>
<p>Other than that, go to the school that interests you the most. There is no bad choice here.</p>
<p>Allow me to cite something that might sway your decison. The Paris School of Mines does a study of the top CEOs at Fortune 500 companies every few years and ranks all the schools in the world (thousands) according to the number each places in these high business positions and lists the top 700. Below is a listing of all the US (and UK) schools on the current rankings. I have excluded all other international schools. Note where Fordham lands. This speaks well of the strength of a Fordham degree in the business world.</p>
<p>PARIS SCHOOL OF MINES;
WORLD UNIVERSITY 2011 RANKINGS
TOP 700 </p>
<p>1- Harvard
5- Oxford
12- Columbia
13- Stanford
14- MIT
19- Northwestern
21- Chicago
15- Cornell
29- Berkley
30- Cambridge
35- Yale
38- Georgia Tech, Notre Dame
59- Dartmouth
63- FORDHAM, Johns Hopkins, Duke,
82- Princeton
92- Brown, U-Miami, USN academy,
211- Xavier
228- U San Francisco, Santa Clara, Dayton
229- Boston College, Boston University, NYU, Rutgers, Michigan, Vanderbilt,
West Point, USAF academy, Pace, CCNY
349- Emory, Georgetown, U San Diego</p>