<li><p>Is there a cost difference between the dorms of Potomac and Thruston and Fulbright?</p></li>
<li><p>Are any of you doing the program where you pay monthly for your tuition? I am doing workstudy…would that money be enough, or would I have to ask for financial help from other people? (i don’t want my parents to pay anything…all the debt should be on me) </p></li>
<li><p>Do i buy my books with my tuition money, or do i have to get that with my own money? </p></li>
<li><p>If you did loans, what place did you get the money from? I received a package with several places like chase, citibank. etc. I don’t know which one to choose.</p></li>
<li><p>When is the day (exact date) that we can move in our dorms?</p></li>
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<p>Thanks for all the help, any answer to any questions would do. :)</p>
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<li><p>Housing rates: <a href="http://gwired.gwu.edu/gwhousing/whereyoulive/%5B/url%5D">http://gwired.gwu.edu/gwhousing/whereyoulive/</a></p></li>
<li><p>I haven't done any of the monthly programs. Financial aid has the details. To put it simply, you calculate what you need to pay after grants, loans, etc. and divide that number by how many months is part of the plan. Work study is listed in your financial aid package, but not calculated in your bill. You'll have to crunch all the numbers to figure out if work-study is enough.</p></li>
<li><p>Books are bought with your own money and are not part of the official university bill. To get the cheapest deals, hit up amazon.com or half.com. The booklist for your courses can be found at the bookstore website. Goto <a href="http://www.bkstr.com%5B/url%5D">www.bkstr.com</a> and click until you locate GW Fall courses.</p></li>
<li><p>I don't have a lot of insight on this one. Talk to your parents, family, friends to learn about the loan process and ask for help in comparing the lenders.</p></li>
<li><p>Saturday, Sept. 2nd. Classes start the following Tuesday.</p></li>
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<p>Thanks for the answers. :)</p>
<p>Hello,
I am a mom of an incoming freshman, we're trying to straighten out the housing information.
No where can we find the cost of Somers; not on the Gwired, housing costs, not a paper that came in the mail. Does anyone know the cost?
Secondly, I've read that the room configurations at Thurston are varied. When you have 6 people in a room, how does that work?? 3 bunk beds?
Anyone out there lived in Thurston with 5 other people?
Thank you</p>
<p>Housing for all Mt. Vernon buildings are listed under "MVC" on the costs list. <a href="http://gwired.gwu.edu/gwhousing/whereyoulive/%5B/url%5D">http://gwired.gwu.edu/gwhousing/whereyoulive/</a></p>
<p>A Thurston 6 is quite spacious floor plan with multiple rooms. I've seen a 6 with no bunked beds.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the information. So obvious, once pointed out that MVC is all the housing on Mt. Vernon Campus.
On the Thurston, when you say multiple rooms, are they like 2-3 per room with a common/central area? Then a shared bath?
My kid is very unsure of having so many roommates, which is why he is thinking of avoiding Thurston and looking at Somers.</p>
<p>All of the 6's that I saw during CI were huge, but they were all a little different. Some had three rooms with 2 beds each, while some had other weird configurations like 3 in one room, 2 in another, and 1 by itself, or 3 and 3. There's definitely enough room for 6 people to comfortably live in (probably more room than other typical dorms), but I think the issue is probably sharing the tiny bathroom with 5 other people.</p>
<p>I was wondering how you choose your campus?
And do you have classes at whatever campus you live in?</p>
<p>Like if you live at Foggy Bottom are all your classes necessarily there? Or can they be at one of the two other ones?</p>
<p>When I signed up for classes, they specifically said that they were at Mt. Vernon if they were. You can sign up for classes at both campuses, you just have to take a shuttle, which really wasn't that long of a ride from what I could tell at CI. Most of the classes that I ended up signing up for (big intro courses and stuff) had sections both at Foggy Bottom and MVC, and some classes even seemed to be offered just at MVC (ie yoga).</p>
<p>hey, when do we find out who our roommates are?</p>