<p>I was waitlsited at my top 3 choices (top 20 schools not surprised upset about duke tho...) so Tech was my saftey... thank gosh I applied. Also how's the aid? Is it free if your under a certain income? How's the social life? How's the campus? Can you compare it to uga and oxford emory? UGA is way down my list, but my parents want to "force" me to go to oxford at emory becuase of the GREAT financial aid.... Thanks</p>
<p>Fin Aid awards came out last week, and you said in another thread that you already received Tech’s offer, which was almost entirely HOPE (as it should be). So why are you asking about aid?</p>
<p>If you have HOPE, why not just go to Tech? Are you a science major? If you don’t like it, do well and transfer out to somewhere though not a top 20 (b/c Duke and others hardly accept transfers) except Emory or Vandy from what I know. I think Emory is seeking transfers to boost enrollment anyway. But honestly, if you’re a science major, you’ll probably end up happy at Tech anyway. Oxford is really cool and educates more like a liberal arts college (so it’s good and some courses are as rigorous or tougher than ours, while yes, some are easier of course. In general, the workload is higher there than own main campus, which is normal for LACs/LAC like places), but the location may drive you crazy (you’ll want to ride the shuttle up here often).<br>
Also: Your parents and trying to get you to go to Oxford b/c of “Great Aid” huh? Seems more like your parents have a biased towards Emory or top 20s. You aren’t pre-med by any chance are you (b/c this is when I hear about parents trying to avoid sending their child to Tech or something, which is so weird. Just major in a non-engineering science)?</p>