Hey everyone,
I was recently accepted into both Emory and Oxford College. I would much, much rather go to Emory, however, I got a $15k scholarship to Oxford. I have never visited Oxford but I’m not really into the small-school environment, as my graduating class is 35 people and I would prefer to switch it up. Thoughts? Is $15k really that much, or is it just a ton of debt either way? I havent received my FA package because I turned the IDOC packet in late, but I’m not expecting much money. 
Please help!
@heyitspb: Depends on your academic interests. What are they? I’m sure people would much, much rather go to Emory without thinking about exactly how much of an advantage it has over another option or whether it is even good at the beginning level courses a student plans to take.
Oxford will be huge compared to your current school - have you visited ?
You get to have an easier transition to Emory, closer connections to classmates and professors, and you get a scholarship on top of it. What’s not to like ?
@MYOS1634 : For some academic interests it may be harder to transition (business, political science, NBB, and soon chemistry) because of the lack of upper-level electives at Oxford in those departments. The requirements for NBB are pretty intensive course work wise (lots of electives required), Political Science is extremely specific and has migrated toward a system that now has intermediate versions of introductory courses (they migrated toward a “specialist” type of curriculum where you concentrate, attempting to give students a closer glimpse of what graduate style curricula and research is) which need to be done in one’s concentration. Chemistry may migrate toward a system that is completely different and beyond the abilities of Oxford to offer by about fall 2017. So in the last case, the student will enter Oxford, complete their classes and then likely be told they need to a) go back and take the 4 core courses not offered in the same format as Oxford or b) be thrown into advanced and intermediate courses with a non-equivalent background to main students and this is an issue considering that chemistry courses at Emory are more challenging than normal and often resort to curve grading. The current system is fair because Oxford students who do the right thing instructor choice wise can easily do as well as or better than main students because the intro/intermediate level training has the same content, but if main changes the content, then the system becomes less fair.
I would caution anyone to check the degree requirements and compare them to offerings at Oxford to gauge how much progress they can make.
@bernie12 I’m interested in possibly double majoring in neuroscience/behavioral biology and English. Probably not chemistry or business. Are you a current student at Oxford?
No, I just read literature on some of the issues some majors (these issues are mentioned in some of Oxford’s strategic planning docs) are having and I tutor an Oxford continuee NBB major and he seems to be worrying about completing the major and has to load up his course schedule each semester to do so. You’d definitely want to knock biology and chem. out early and then pursue QTM 100 and any potential psyche or anthropology electives before coming to main to avoid the strain on your schedule.