<p>It’s painful because the shuttle ride is often much longer than the 15 minutes that they quote, and because it’s harder to stay out studying on Foggy Bottom if you have to go to the shuttle stop, wait for the bus, and then ride the shuttle back to the other campus. The library on the Mt. Vernon campus closes at 12midnight (!!!), so if you don’t leave campus to go to Foggy Bottom, your only choice is to study in the dorm. The ForRide (or FourRide?) service that GW talks about that you can use if you feel unsafe at night won’t transport students to the Mt. Vernon campus.</p>
<p>My child did not preference the Mt. Vernon dorms at all, and still got placed in a small dorm there. GW housing would not help her switch out - they repeatedly referred her to the room swap process, which is exactly what it it labeled - you have to go to the list, and you email people until you find someone who will swap rooms with you. Didn’t happen after over 150+ emails. Mt. Vernon was a total pain in the rear - my student didn’t want to be a commuter student, which is exactly what she was. Her classes weren’t offered at Mt. Vernon, so she had no choice but to commute to the Foggy Bottom campus. With the traffic, etc, she had to allow 45 min to get to her classes. As the Housing official put it to me - “living on Mt. Vernon is a risk you take when you come here”. I thought it was a rip off to have to pay the same amount for housing as other kids who were not commuting,etc. Also, the larger dorm on Mt. Vernon has a gym and a couple of large community rooms with tvs, etc. My child’s dorm had neither a community room nor a gym, and she could only access her own dorm building. Again, those kids were paying the same amount and had lounges and a gym?? Not right.</p>