<p>So it's down to GW in DC and Tulane in New Orleans and while I'm leaning towards GW, there's something about Tulane that I feel I am leaving behind or not considering heavily enough. While both schools are no doubt a fit, GW seems a bit more cut throat and Tulane more lax but still strong academically. Any thoughts? This goes out to current Undergrad students at either schools as well. Thanks guys!</p>
<p>Some would say it depends on your major, especially if it involves politics. Personally I don’t agree with that because people change their majors all the time, but it is a point of view to be considered. Not surprisingly the argument favors GW, but Tulane has a strong poli sci department and Louisiana sure has politics also! One can learn politics at any level, it doesn’t have to be federal. I could even make an argument that it is better at the local and state level, at least while first learning.</p>
<p>Putting that aside, they are quite comparable academically I think. Tulane has slightly stronger incoming students based on average test score stats, but so close that it really isn’t a factor. I will assume that your costs for each are similar, otherwise that could be a factor in deciding.</p>
<p>So in the end, you are mostly looking at two very different campus environments, Tulane being the classic college campus with lots of quads and grass and trees and classic buildings, and GW being mostly concrete and a fair number of not so classic buildings. New Orleans and DC are extremely different cities. Not better or worse in the abstract, but certainly I would think one would appeal more to an individual’s taste as a place to spend 4 years in college than the other. It could be New Orleans for one person and DC for another, but given the radical difference in the two cities it would seem to me that there would be no one that wouldn’t like one better for college than the other. Assuming you have been to visit both, go with your gut regarding where you really picture yourself having the college experience you always imagined.</p>