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<p>The problem is not so much the cuts as the wholly deficient process. When you have professors protesting the administration, it’s a bit hard to claim that controversies don’t exist.</p>
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<p>The university found, and has publicly stated, that the SAT misreporting was found to be an intentional act over at least a ten-year period.</p>
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<p>This.</p>
<p>At the very least, I can still say that these so-called “controversies” aren’t preventing me from getting an amazing education.</p>
<p>So, all in all, I wrote a supplement for Emory University and mentioned the qualities of Emory that I really liked but did not mention Oxford at all. However, I applied to both. Is this fine? I have the scores for Oxford so is it still a possibly even if i didn’t mention it in the supplement?</p>
<p>Absolutely. The reality is, few current Oxford students had any idea about the school until they were admitted. That means that they probably wrote about how Emory CAS would be a great fit in their “Why Emory/Oxford” essay and made no mention of Oxford. I can’t guarantee you’ll get in, but I will say that it won’t automatically put you out of the running.</p>
<p>CAS and Oxford are very different places. Think about that if you are considering on going to Oxford.</p>
<p>interesting discussion. Just my 2c - as a parent of an Emory student we were at a ‘tea’ ? with a dean and it came out that oxford is not all that small anymore. They supposedly are on trend to make the school bigger - they mentioned lots of construction there? I don’t know how accurate that is, just seems like it’ll be a big bulge of people coming over to the main campus in their junior year?</p>
<p>Oxford is basically a backdoor into a top 20 school. It used to be that they let a of URMs with lower SAT scores into Oxford. But I’ve heard that now they are using Oxford as a way to admit an increasing number of international students, who by default pay full tuition. American kids from large metropolitan areas don’t want to go to school in a dry county in the middle of nowhere, Georgia. But if you’re from Asia, it seems like a big deal to get admitted to a top 20 US school. Now, Emory will probably not be a top 20 school by the time these students graduate (for obvious reasons), but the administration wants to milk this distinction while they still can. Probably when the construction was approved, they didn’t think that they would get caught falsifying SAT score data in order to maintain a top USNWR ranking.</p>
<p>^The falsifications didn’t lead to a drop in rankings, though.</p>
<p>As for me, I wouldn’t care if Emory drops from top 20 to top 50. Big deal. “Hey, I went to an elite college!” “Cool! So, uhh, what are you doing right now?” “Uhh, well… … …” “Dude, a lot of people from average colleges with less than a third of Emory’s cost of attendance are doing the same thing you’re doing, and a lot of them make more than you, too.”</p>
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<p>You know what happens when hundreds and hundreds of college students are living closely together and %$#&ing together… There are those who love Oxford, those who hate it, and everyone in-between, all for countless combinations of reasons.</p>
<p>Just to be clear, I don’t despise the school. I despise the administration. A lot of people in the administration deserve to be called out on their BS. It’s easy to say you’ve been doing a great job, when you just invent facts to support your case.</p>
<p>A message for anyone who is angry at the administration for personal reasons: </p>
<p>Unfortunately, the Emory administration holds most of the cards. So before you decide to fight the system, dig yourself a grave first. What are you, Sergeant Rock of East Company? Lol.</p>
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<p>Oxford has grown by hundreds of students in the past few years. I believe the administration plans on eventually increasing enrollment to about 1,200-1,400 students, but as of right now the school can only fit slightly less than 1,000 undergrads. </p>
<p>For those curious, Oxford is currently building a new library, a science building, and will construct at least one new dorm after tearing down an older, dilapidated one. Additionally, the school just finished construction on a new language hall. I was under the impression that the library and language hall are/were rebuilt because they were in a dilapidated condition, but it could also be a space issue. The science building and dorm(s) construction is partly because of the relatively massive increase in enrollment that occurred over the past 15 years, and partly because both the dorm and science buildings haven’t aged well.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what it’s like for juniors when they get about 390 new people in their class (some Oxford students graduate early, don’t continue onto Emory, or drop out), but I doubt it’s that jarring. After all, the juniors are typically living off campus by that point, which means that the impact of hundreds of new faces will be quite dispersed.</p>
<p>Maybe the administration is trying to pull a Louis XIV spread on Oxford. Either that or to make more money by increasing the capacity. Likely the latter. But Oxford is a pretty paradoxical place (in my opinion), so who knows. </p>
<p>On the other hand, I wonder how many Oxford and Emory graduates go on to become officers in the Army?</p>
<p>The Emory administration holds fewer cards than most people think. They have an image to protect. They need high school students to apply and they don’t want too many freshman to transfer. Also, too many students try to reason with people in the administration which is a lost cause. Threatening legal action is the way to go. This worked like a charm when I went to Emory.</p>
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<p>Probably very few. The school doesn’t offer ROTC, and I have a hard time believing that the typical Emory student would go on to enlist in the military. Why does this question matter though? I seriously doubt that someone looking into the military after college would also consider Oxford/Emory.</p>
<p>I was talking about becoming Commissioned Officers, of course, which requires a bachelor’s degree. You don’t have to be in the ROTC to become a C.O.–you can also become one by attending Officer Candidate School after college and completing Basic Training. You can go to any college and major in anything. Prospective C.O.s might go to Emory because they like Emory, or because of a combination of other different reasons.</p>
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<p>Some people at both Oxford and the College of Arts and Sciences will do ROTC at Georgia Tech. Otherwise, I expect the number is negligible.</p>
<p>ExpendableAsset- I’m aware of the OCS option, but I just don’t see a student who entertains even the thought of going into the military choosing to enroll in a school like Emory. I thought long and hard about joining the military after high school. If I hadn’t dismissed the notion by the end of my junior year, and decided to complete a bachelors before joining the armed service, Emory would not have been on my radar. I likely would have only considered a service academy (if I didn’t have any doubts about my post college plans), schools with a native ROTC program, or the California Maritime Academy. </p>
<p>But I just don’t see how the question of how many students enlist after graduation is at all relevant to this thread.</p>
<p>People who attend CAS are a lot closer to GA Tech than Oxford if they wanted to do ROTC and become a C.O.</p>