u/Few_Series734

Hi! I just recently committed to northwestern but am having some regrets about gw. I’ve wanted to go to dc for a long time and know I’m going to settle down there. I know northwestern is a good school that offers a more traditional college experience but I can’t help but feel like I missed out. I know gw is good for internships/ employment and the location will help a million times more with what I want to do (consulting or science research for fed gov). Plus I got presidential scholarship and honors college (both schools are same price)

What do you yall think?🫩

Hi! I just recently committed to northwestern but am having some regrets about gw. I’ve wanted to go to dc for a long time and know I’m going to settle down there. I know northwestern is a good school that offers a more traditional college experience but I can’t help but feel like I missed out. I know gw is good for internships/ employment and the location will help a million times more with what I want to do (consulting or science research for fed gov). Plus I got presidential scholarship and honors college (both schools are same price)

What do you yall think?🫩

Whoever needs to hear this today. Whether you are going to an Ivy League, your state school, community college, gap year. Whatever your next step is, your 1st grade self, the one who saw a long never ending road ahead of them, is proud of you.

Don’t let the noise of the college process or other people’s commitments cloud the fact that this is your path and yours only. Not your family, or your friends.

Growing pains are inevitable and it takes courage to take that leap after graduation. Wherever you end up,

be prepared to work hard, extend kindness, and enjoy being young.

You did not make the wrong choice, you did not do something incorrect, you are not going to fail.

It feels uncertain because it is uncertain. And that’s what makes life so valuable!

Congratulations class of 2026, this was years in the making :)