<p>MommaJ, could you say a bit more comparing/contrasting the “types” that each school attracts? To put the cards on the table, there are a lot of Jewish kids from the northeast with A-/B+ credentials at both schools, if I understand the post above. (That’s my impression, too.) But if they are different on some specific parameters of personality, I’d like to hear more. GW and American are in my daughter’s top three (along with Brandeis). She is interested in Middle Eastern studies and would be applying to AU’s SIS/GW’s ESIA. She liked both the campus of AU and the not-campus of GW when she visited. I’d love to hear more about other ways they differ.</p>