Undergraduate / 'I had most things done for me' - GWU - What influenced you to apply [5]

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As a child I had most things done for me. I was well cared for and my family made the best possible choices for me. As I got older I had to start living my own life and making my own decisions, decisions that would shape my life. Just a few months back I had to make the biggest decision I would have to make, a choice that would most definitely alter my life in decades to come. Sitting on my bed, laptop open I searched and researched late in to the night for weeks on end attempting to pick a handful of universities from the 100's the USA offered, on most nights just staring confusedly at the screen. On such a day as I sat on my bed once again, much later in the night than I would have liked I stumbled upon GWU, looking in to the website and reading about the rich history and all that GWU offered something stirred in me. By the time I finished reading the Bachelor of Accountancy degree overview I was wide awake and extremely excited.

GWU really stood out to me because I got the sense that they really cared about their students. As an incoming freshman, although as excited as anyone could ever be, I knew that travelling 1230miles from my home in Sri Lanka and living alone for the first time would cause some turmoil in my system. I found that the first year of the Bachlours degree in Accountancy includes a First Year Development Program where you are assigned a mentor from an upper class. It would give me someone to relate to, someone who has been through every feeling a new comer such as myself might experience. This certainly put my mind at ease. Something else that caught my eye was the fact that GWU doesn't just kick you out of the nest when your courses are through. Through the Job Center, they make sure all their students find a place in society and are not just left out in the cold, giving a graduate the opportunities they need to live upto the potential the university has helped them achieve.

The course work too really grabbed my interest. It requires you to take science courses, humanities, political science and even learn a foreign language. This really excited me. It would give me the opportunity to grow as a person, learn a different array of subjects. Although I would still be specialized in accountancy I wouldn't be a single programmed accounting robot.

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual". I recognize the opportunities that open up to a business world enthusiast such as me if I am accepted in to GWU not just due to the intresting courses but for it's location in the heart of the world. My grandfather would tell me stories of working at the world bank as a result I knew all about Washington D.C I know the significance of being minutes away from the world bank and international monetary fund and immersing myself in such political influence and history,holds. Opening doors otherwise firmly shut to me.

Everything about the university has influenced me to apply the opportunities, my association of familiarity with the city, it's traditions and history, its comforting feel and an education of the highest standards. What I get by attending GWU is all I hoped for wrapped in one powerhouse of an university.