GW tops the list of a few brag-worthy lists. GW students are the most politically active, live in dorms like palaces, and go to school in one of the best college towns, according to the Princeton Review. 

And now, GW appears on another list to brag about, the Decade’s hottest colleges.

The Daily Beast – a news Web site launched last year by a former editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker – ranked GW no. 14 on a list of the hottest 15 colleges of the past 10 years.

According to the list,

Despite being one of the most expensive schools nationwide, in the first half of the decade GW went from being a safety spot for Georgetown applicants to being a destination school in its own right. Former President Stephen Trachtenberg raised millions of dollars to transform the urban Washington, D.C. campus into an asset rather than a liability. Two-thirds of GW students now come from the top 10 percent of their high-school class, and last year’s acceptance rate was about 35 percent compared to nearly 60 percent in 1999. 

Some of the other schools to make the cut are the University of Southern California, Tufts and Washington University in St. Louis.