Why Washington, DC?
The Smithsonian Museums that surround the National Mall in Washington, DC, commemorate the creativity and historical leadership that altered the course of civilization within America and around the world. In addition to the arts, diplomacy flourishes in Washington, a center of international commerce and culture. Embassies from every nation are present here as are the headquarters of global companies and nonprofit organizations.
A beautiful, dynamic, cosmopolitan city, Washington is often called the "City of Power" or "Capital of the Free World.” Government, media, science and technology, medicine, law, and the arts, among other fields, all find a home in our national's capital. Organizations of every sort have national offices in Washington. The federal seat of government, Washington is where public policy is made. National music festivals, folk arts, and other fields of endeavor flourish in the metropolitan area where the Senate, House of Representatives, White House, Supreme Court, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Commerce Department, Pentagon, FBI, Smithsonian Institution, National Institutes of Health, and World Bank are located. Foreign embassies from every country in the world and international agencies like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Special Olympics International, Youth for Understanding, Red Cross, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and the United Nations are found in Washington.
The Washington, DC, metropolitan area hosts the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, the White House and Supreme Court, the Commerce Department and Department of Defense, the Justice Department, the FBI and CIA, the National Institutes of Health, and the World Bank—and this is just the beginning of the list. There's nothing like a summer working at the Justice Department to list on a law school application or research at the National Cancer Institute in preparation for medical school.
Washington, like many other large cities in our country, is a very diverse city. There are more denominations of churches just on 16th street than there are in many major cities throughout the world. If the performing and visual arts are your interest, then this is also a great city for you. From the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts to the National Art Gallery and the Smithsonian Museums, every kind of art is offered.
Whatever your chosen field, Washington is the city where the movers and shakers are trying out new ideas and searching for fresh talent.
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