<p>Personally, option 1 seems the more desirable of the two. Also, I agree that you could have a better chance of being admitted as a full-time degree seeking student - though, I’m not necessarily saying that will, in fact, happen. </p>
<p>However, you may want to find out whether GWU has any sort of “Guaranteed Acceptance Policy” for community college students. There seems to be quite a few universities that do that.</p>
<p>Edit: About 5 seconds on Google and I found [url=<a href=“http://www.nvcc.edu/about-nova/directories--offices/administrative-offices/academic/guaranteed-adm/index.html]this[/url”>http://www.nvcc.edu/about-nova/directories--offices/administrative-offices/academic/guaranteed-adm/index.html]this[/url</a>].</p>