AU or GWU? Which should be my 1st choice?

AUTransfer
Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:14:06 +0000

1) American has the highest percentage of students on the greatest amount of need based financial aid out of the 3 big DC schools (GW, Georgetown and AU). So this does mean that AU has a higher percentage of students from less affluent families than the other two schools. While it is my personal opinion that students at AU are less stuck up and less concerned with money, it is important to remember that there are students at all three schools that pay the full $50,000+/year tuition and so you’re going to get snobs at all three.

2) GWU’s administration is structured with a corporate mentality, but AU’s is structured like a bureaucracy, and it is one of the student’s main complaints about the school. Some of this has been remedied by AU’s creation of ‘AU Central’, which serves as a liaison between students and the various departments.