Posts Tagged ‘george washington university’

You’re Out! No Wait, You’re In! No, Seriously, This Time You’re Out

‘Washington, DC 2010 193′
courtesy of ‘giantminispacegoat’
George Washington University’s Admissions office made a ginormous blunder last week by wrongly sending out acceptance emails to about 200 early applicants who had already been rejected.  Admissions caught the mistake and sent out a retraction email a few hours later.
The cause? Well, according to GW’s Senior Vice President for [...]

DC Ranks #1 In Student Debt

‘Money’
courtesy of ‘bredgur’

It wasn’t enough to name Georgetown University #7 on the list of top 10 colleges and universities with the priciest dorms. Nope, not by a long shot.
Apparently almost half of the students attending secondary education institutions in DC graduate with debt. Not only that, but they have the highest debt in the country.
Washington [...]

You Abuse It, You Lose It

‘In classroom #1′
courtesy of ‘poplinre’
The GW Hatchet reports that some professors have banned laptops, iPhones and Blackberries because students were using them for non-class related purposes (i.e. Facebook, AIM, email and even gaming).
Now having gone to highschool and college when laptops and smartphones were just becoming mainstream, I didn’t have that type of technological distraction. [...]