<p>Hi guys,</p>
<p>I just got accepted in both George Washington Uni and Northeastern Uni but I havent known which one I should choose yet. I plan to study Business/International Relation in college and both of two schools offer good programs in these field. Besides, their locations are all in cities, where I can easily get internships. I need some advices. Which school do you think a good fit for me? I want to attend one that has diverse student body and school spirit.</p>
<p>Hmmm I attended GWU and my son is now considering NEU seriously.<br>
Neither school is known to be especially “spirited”. NEU has hockey games and GWU has basketball as its main school sport.<br>
For international relations DC is probably better than Boston for possible diplomatic exposure/contacts/internships.<br>
DC is much warmer than Boston lol…as someone who grew up in MA and now lives in NH I loved the weather down in VA- although summer is brutal!
GWU doesn’t have much if any green space- which I hear NEU does have now.
GWU had a large Jewish population when I attended- not sure if this is still true now.
Both cities have good public transit but I have to say the metro in DC is amazingly clean and safe/easy to navigate compared to Boston’s train/bus/commuter rail set up.
I found GW and the DC area to be racially diverse (which was a nice change from where I grew up) although at times I felt a bit like an outsider since I was not Jewish. This might have just been the group of friends I happened to click with I don’t know.</p>
<p>I have a secondary experience with GWU based on what happened to a classmate of mine who went there, so take this with a large grain of salt.</p>
<p>As a midwesterner coming to Northeastern, I was concerned about fitting in at a school in a big city on the east coast after someone from my school two years before had gone to GWU. She had a really good scholarship, but she felt looked down on for this, and also felt like an outsider being from a public school in small-town Wisconsin. It was not a good experience, to say the least.</p>
<p>With my concern, I compared student reviews, etc. of both universities online, I found a very different attitude between NEU and GWU. Northeastern has risen up from being a commuter school, so it now really prides its academic success and scholarship students, while the attitude at GWU seemed more focused on its selectiveness and the fact that most of its students had gone to private schools, etc.</p>
<p>I have very much enjoyed being at Northeastern, and haven’t felt like an outsider for being here on a good scholarship or coming from the midwest. Again, I only have half the story, so take what I say with that in mind, but I can at least say that Northeastern is a very academically and socially diverse environment where I have had a positive experience.</p>
<p>There’s also more snow here, and I like snow. :)</p>
<p>I was on lots of grants while at GWU (came from a single parent family and mom was a teacher) and I don’t remember anyone ever saying anything about it. We never talked about money I dont think- but I also lived off campus because I was a transfer student so maybe that made a difference. </p>
<p>Northeastern is definitely moving up. In fact I am getting quite a bit of flack from family in the Boston area who feel it is not good enough for my son to attend. I have become a big NEU cheerleader and am getting them up to date on the change from commuter school to top 50s school!</p>
<p>Hopefully you can revisit both schools and see which one “clicks” for you!</p>
<p>I was the one in my family who didn’t think NEU was good enough to attend as being from New England I also had the memories of what NEU was when I was in school. </p>
<p>I can only speak from the experience of my son and say he is thriving there and loves it and is having a great time in just about every way. It will not be like going to a college on a campus that is set off and there are not big time sports there so it won’t give you that kind of experience-it will give you a uniquely Northeastern experience and it is hard to describe it.</p>