I have too many questions...

Zoidberg93
Mon, 04 Apr 2016 10:45:26 +0000

1. no, not really

2. don't know, and don't really see it as necessary unless you really like the honors program. just shoot for latin honors.

3. not really that big on sports pride aside from maybe basketball, but there is somewhat of a common gw identity

4. that depends on what you personally consider easy. one person might think it's easy, another might not.

5. yes to both, primarily liberal, but a very vocal and influential conservative minority

6. literally one of the most LGBT friendly schools in the country. some people jokingly refer to "GW" as "Gay Double-Jew" because of our large LGBT and jewish communities

7. very practical

8. no idea

9. no, in fact you are probably going to save a few thousand dollars if you study abroad. you can go anywhere you want in the world. (there are some programs that have partnerships with GW or are directly administered by GW if that tickles your fancy, e.g. GW Spain)

10. that's up to how pro-active you are in terms of interacting with professors or finding research internships

11. yes, you have a massive advantage going to gw in this regard. internships are abundant and fairly easy to acquire. during the summer, you have intense competition for internships with students from every university in the country. during the school year, on the other hand, students from GW, georgetown, and american have an oligopoly on a lot of the good internships. kids from other schools outside of the dc area will have to take a semester off or take a semester "abroad" (i.e. go to DC) if they want those same internships during the school year.

12. pointless question, completely and utterly depends on the professor and course. some "non-honors" courses will be exponentially harder than some honors courses, and vice versa.

13. yes

14. like any college, freshman classes (aside from your columbian dean seminar thingy) are usually big lectures, and upper level courses are smaller. however, it is likely that you'll have at least a couple small classes even in your freshman year. one of the smallest classes i ever took was during fall semester freshman year

15. we are better than american