<p>See GWCS,
You kinda proved my point about how fellow G-Dubs can be. Everyone makes and maintain their friendships from FROSH year and tend stay in that vibe. To me, college friendships are a growing experience. My friends are different cultures, ethnic backgrounds, classes (rich, poor and middle class, HOLLA!), ages, majors, etc. and lot of them don't even know each other. Although, there is nothing wrong keeping your FROSH friends per se, a good amount of G-DUB's tend to be closed off and cliquish instead of more open minded to establishing new relationships with new people during following years of college. (Ex. The dorm doors are closed after FROSH year, man.) I really don't mean to sound rude to you at all, but for you think that it's okay for people ignore you it a little strange and I feel that you can't classfiy it as "that's how college is" because that's not true. I was raised to be always be polite and considerate to whom I've met and since I've been at G-Dub, I think done so. Again, I think that you are very well informed about G-Dub, but don't always expect fellow students to have the same opinion as you. </p>
<p>These kids deserve to hear all differents types of opnions about G-Dub good and bad. All colleges have their ups and downs, man. So like my buddy SR and I have done, let's just agree to disagree, okay?</p>
<p>Your opinion of what college should be is definitely different from mine. I felt that you throwing out the word "clique" has made a lot of applicants hestitant about our social scene where they shoudn't have been before. But I will stress that each GW student and their experience is unique. And that some people may experience something similar to you and some may not. </p>
<p>Perhaps the doors are closed after freshmen year is because students don't find the need to meet every person in their building or every person they come in contact with. Freshmen year is extremely social because you don't know anybody. You need to make friends and thus are more open to meeting other people. As the years goes on, the need and desire to meet new people slowly decreases because students are settling into a flow and are concentrating on strengthening the relationships they currently have. I guess it goes back to the conflict between "quality or quantity". Freshmen year you'll want quantity, but as you go on, you'll want quality. This will happen until you enter a new stage of life and the cycle continues. This is my theory and I don't expect you to agree to it. But again, to each their own.</p>
<p>Personally, I haven't kept ALL of my friends from freshmen year. I've been involved in various student organizations and have built amazing relationship sophomore year and now currently junior year. </p>
<p>Your experience is one GW experience. Mine is a different. Both oppose one another. I just hope that people reading this thread aren't hesitant about GW's social scene. I just wanted to put my opinions and theories out there for you (and whoever wants to read it) to understand. </p>
<p>I agree the quality aspect of friends (or of having good friends) in your statment, most def. I have a number of good friends at GDub that I trust, but we'll don't chill together all the time, eat dinner at the same place, at the same time every Thrusday, like a number of G-Dubs I know do. I guess that I love keeping new people and I love to socalize and learn from them too which probably stems from my ethnic background. (I'm Nigerian.) It's just I feel that things can be a little closed off afterwards. That's just my honest opnion.</p>
<p>But then again, we are agreeing to disagree, so that's cool and I seriously don't want these kids to be turned off by GW in any means. GW is a top university with so much to offer to someone!</p>
<p>A couple of posters have addressed this question before. There are many black students in high positions on campus. For example, our last two or three student government presidents have been black.</p>
<p>What I saw at the Market was a wide variety of choices to include decent produce etc. It advertises that it carries kosher and halal food. The prices are not comparable with the greater DC area. Even the closest supermarket is more expensive than the same chain in other parts of DC.</p>
<p>What the kids seemed to buy (because this is what I saw in the dorm rooms)were easy-cook meals. Ramen noodles, oatmeal, etc. This is perfectly understandable. After all, who wants to cook in college? GW needs a traditional cafeteria.</p>
<p>dustac,
SR is right. The black community is quite active and visible. I mean, we're not all over the place though. If you have more questions. Just PM me.</p>
<p>I personally don't like the food on campus (I am kind of a health freak), so I go to Safeway for my food. If you get a safeway card, you save a lot of money (like, $10-20 per trip).</p>
<p>But I was wondering if you knew a vague percentage of how many GW undergrads go to grad school; not at GW specifically, just in general. And if that wasn't narrowed down enough, how many GW undergrads are accepted to law schools? And you know when I think "law school," I'm thinking HYP quality.</p>
<p>I'm thinking about Thurston for dorming... majoring in PoliSci. Good/bad idea?</p>
<p>According to my LSDAS report, our undergraduate LSAT average for 2005 is 154. It was a 155 in 2004. That's higher than the national average (150).</p>
<p>The Law Schools My Friends Attend: American, Howard, GMU, Maryland, Catholic, Syracuse, Villanova (several go there), Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, various good, average, and bad state schools, Tulane (several go there), UMiami, Brooklyn, and Emory. </p>
<p>You don't need to major in poli sci to attend law school, but you can if that's what you're interested in...</p>
<p>hey everyone, for the current students out there, what was the avergae loan that you all had to take out to atttend GW?
With the finacial aid that i got, i would have to take out a $12k(not including the federal loans i got in the package) per year.
Do you think that GW is worth taking out that much?
Also how many hrs a week are you typically in class?
thanks</p>
<p>Right now (this semester), I have $8k total in loans which translates to $16k this year. Without the Federal Stafford or Perkins loans, That would be $5k in a PLUS loan (a loan in my parents name). Federal loans you do have to pay back, I believe. You should also note that the Stafford Loan has the option to increase the amount taken out each year. To be honest, I'm not too sure giving you a definite "yes/no" for your answer. You seem pretty on par with what my situation is.</p>
<p>Freshmen year, I was in class about 12-13 hours per week taking 15 total credits which averages out to 2-3 hours per day (M-F).</p>