GW Tour

@EconPop I’ll be honest my son didn’t come away very impressed. The information session was fine, but the tour was not very informative. We just walk around 2 block of central campus and finished back at the welcome center. It is hard to say, but my son didn’t get a great feel from it. Some high points an low points:

  1. Didn’t see any academic areas, except for the lobby of the science center.
  2. Most campus tours we get a look at the student union, we just did a fly by of the outside
  3. No dorm tour (makes you wonder)
  4. Our guide pointed to buildings down the street, but we did venture very far from the starting point
  5. We did go through the District House basement. We did eat there. Pretty cool.

We heard a lot about Whole Foods, Panera and Starbucks, but not much about the community. Our guide did really stress the location and it’s access to many internship opportunities, but that was a given.

We did walk around quiet a bit after the tour, and Friday night, and again Sunday afternoon (Captain Cookie!!), but I guess he didn’t fall in love with it. Which is good to know!!

My son got a tour of Gtown by a friend who is a senior, and we toured American on Saturday. Maybe that kind of urban campus isn’t for him, but I thought GWU would have tried a little harder.