<p>You are flat out wrong, Mini, on multiple fronts. The number of students in a particular discipline has no necessary association with the quality of those students nor the quality of the disciplines. Take GW science and engineering for instance–most of academia considers those areas at GW as considerably weaker than the same offerings at other universities of GW’s caliber, despite the number of undergraduates enrolled in those programs. Additionally, the GW sciences and engineering are far weaker in terms of academic respect than other disciplines at GW. The understood strengths of GW and AU are in the domain of government, international affairs and the associated social sciences. I agree that the schools are very different in many ways, but it is HIGHLY understandable that undergraduate students would consider both, given their strengths, location, and similar student qualifications/selectivity.</p>