Open House

Last Friday, we welcomed over 200 admitted graduate students to the Elliott School for our Admitted Student Open House. We enjoyed putting faces to the names of the applicants we had come to know throughout the application process!

The Open House was a wonderful opportunity for admitted students to interact with current students, alumni, faculty, and staff of the Elliott School and witness firsthand what makes this place so special!

Check out photos of some of the activities of the day, including a current student/alumni panel, campus tours, and reception.

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Connecting with the Elliott School

If you have been admitted to a graduate program at the Elliott School for Fall 2013, we congratulation you!

There are many ways you can connect with the Elliott School as you research your graduate school options.  The primary resource available to our admitted students is the Admitted Graduate Student website.  (you can find a link to this page in your admit letter.)  This site is filled with useful information about Elliott School academics, living in D.C, visiting campus, and how to accept your admission.

Visit Campus:  One of our largest events of the year is the Admitted Student Open House.  This year, the open house will be on Friday, April 12.  You will have an opportunity to hear from your program director, faculty, students, and alumni throughout the event.  It is also a great way to meet your future classmates!

Connect with Alumni in your area:  Throughout March and the beginning of April, we hope to connect admitted students with alumni to discuss life at and after the Elliott School.  We are hosting Admitted Student Coffees with alumni throughout the country and also have volunteers available to call or email with admitted students.  If you are interested in attending one of the coffees or connecting with an alum, please complete the form found through the Admitted Student Website. The dates and cities for the Admitted Student Coffees are below.

Houston, TX – Monday, March 18, 6:00 p.m.

New York City, NY – Wednesday, March 20, 6:00 p.m.

Evanston, IL – Thursday, March 21, 5:30 p.m.

Minneapolis, MN – Tuesday, March 26, 5:30 p.m.

San Diego, CA – Tuesday, March 26, 6:00 p.m.

Seattle, WA – Tuesday, March 26, 6:00 p.m.

New York City, NY – Wednesday, March 27, 6:00 p.m.

San Francisco, CA – Wednesday, April 3, 6:30 p.m.

Virtually Visit Campus:  For those of you who cannot attend the Open House, we will be offering online information sessions.  Some of these sessions will be program-specific while others will be more general.  We hope to include current students and alumni in the information sessions to help answer your questions about what it means to be an Elliott School student.  We will email you with more details about these sessions as soon as possible.

As always, our office is available to answer any questions you may have.  Please feel free to contact us at 202-994-7050 or esiagrad@gwu.edu.  We look forward to talking with you!

October Open House

We are less than one month away from our first on-campus open house of the season!

On October 11, we will welcome prospective graduate students to the Elliott School.  We will discuss the unique and vast opportunities all of our programs have to offer including Graduate Student Career Development, skills courses, international education experiences, and much more! Meet faculty and students from all of the programs and learn why they chose the Elliott School.

If you would like to participate, please RSVP at go.gwu.edu/october. And as always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions at esiagrad@gwu.edu or (202) 994-7050.

Can’t make it on October 11? Come to our second on-campus open house on November 13 or visit us at a graduate school fair!

We look forward to meeting you!

Open House for Admitted Students

On Friday the Elliott School held an open house for admitted students to visit and find out more about academic programs, courses, opportunities outside the classroom, and life as a graduate student at GW.  It was wonderful to finally be able to put each face to a name after working with our applicants through the process.  Thanks to everyone who attended for helping to make it such a great day!

Prospective students got a chance to speak with faculty, staff, and current students throughout the day.  Faculty presented lectures on current issues in the field of international affairs, program directors spoke about their course requirements, an academic and career services panel spoke about study abroad and career development, current students and alumni shared their experiences with the Elliott School, and our student organizations presented information about their activities.

The Graduate Student Forum (GSF) is one of our student orgs.  Here they are at their table, getting ready to speak to admitted students at the open house.  Find out a little more about them on their webpage or Twitter feed.

Tonight’s Open House

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Open House for Prospective Students tonight! It was a pleasure meeting you and telling you all about our graduate programs.

Professor Sean Roberts, Program Director for the MA program in International Development Studies, speaking with prospective students in the City View Room.

Upcoming Events

There are lots of Elliott School events coming up.  New ones are added all the time.  Check the calendar for more information on each.

October 3-7

Why Cooperate Over Water? Share the Water, Build the Peace

Iraqi Reconstruction: A Conversation with the Ambassador from Iraq, His Excellency Samir Sumaida’ie

What Should the Palestinians Do Now?

The Power of Conscience: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews

Open House for Prospective Graduate Students

From the Haiti Earthquake to Our Failing High Schools: Perspective from an Elliott School Alumnus

Asian Film Series: Let the Bullets Fly (China)

Taking Stock of Iran’s Nuclear Program: What Does it Mean, and What are the Implications?

October 10-14

Tariff Binding Overhang: Theory and Evidence

Russia in the 2000s: Prelude to High Putinism

Implications of Emerging Space Cooperation Dynamics in Asia

Crowdsourcing and Social Computation in International Development

A Soldier’s Dream and the end of an insurgency in Iraq

What to do with America’s Nuclear Waste?

Remembering the Good: Social Memory and the Resistance to Violence in Le Chambon-Sur-Lignon, France

Social Entrepreneurship and Transitional Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa

A Poet’s Journey to the Yellow Mountains

Open House Pointers

Visiting the graduate schools you are interested in is a crucial step in your decision-making.  Through a visit, you will be able to get a feel for the institution and its personality that is very hard to describe on a website or through a brochure.  One visit option is attending an open house; here are some pointers for attending open house events.

• Come prepared with questions.
• Ask questions in the appropriate setting.  There will be many guests, if your question is a general question, ask it aloud during a Q&A session; if it’s a very specific question, ask it individually.
• Listen to other students’ questions; they may ask something you never thought to ask.
• Take advantage of the opportunity to talk with as many representatives from the schools as possible—professors, staff, admissions staff, students, and alumni.  Everyone has a different perspective.
• Stay for the entire event, the best part is usually at the end when you can speak with individual representatives.
• Find time to explore the city/town as well as the school.  This could be your future home.

Save the date – Open House

Mark your calendars for the Elliott School fall open house events for prospective graduate students.  Click on one of the dates below to R.S.V.P.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Each open house runs from 6-8pm in our building at 1957 E Street, NW, Washington, DC.  There will be a presentation about the Elliott School, admissions Q & A, and a reception with faculty, staff, current students, and alumni.