<p>S. accepted to Oxford. I read on here somewhere that average GPA for Oxford kids is 2.7 - ish. A few kids (top 10-15) might have higher GPA. Is this really true? Question - if my son wanted to go to medical school, wouldn't this drastically hurt his chances? Secondly, even from the standpoint of transferring to Emory (where a 2.0 or so is needed for guaranteed transfer to Emory), wouldn't this prevent a student from successful application to the business school? I am concerned about gpa issues. Could any current students comment please? Thanks.</p>
<p>Oxford College:
3,810 Applications
46% Admitted<br>
Average GPA 3.5 (unweighted)
SAT mid-50% (Math & Critical Reading) 1130-1330<br>
SAT Writing mid-50% 560-660
ACT mid-50% 23-28</p>
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<p>Or do you mean undergraduate GPA. I strongly doubt that the average Undergraduate GPA is a 2.7.</p>
<p>2.7? that seems ULTRA low for Oxford. I think that that GPA refers to current students but i’m not sure either :|I got accepted to Oxford too! Congratulations on your S acceptance :)</p>
<p>Hi ya, its your lucky day i dont know if you are even going to look at this but I am a current student at Oxford College of Emory University, and I know that many students here, including myself were accepted to the campus in Atlanta but chose to go here, the admission process is just as demanding the gpa required is around a 3.5-3.7 with sats near what atlanta requires, every course is an emory course, all professors are emory professors so it wil not hurt chances for med school. I am pre med and i can tell you it is definitely a lot of work.</p>
<p>Tom Longo
Oxford College of Emory University Class of 2012
Emory College Class of 2014</p>
<p>Also know this: If you go to Oxford for 2 years and have a less-than desirable GPA, you will have an independent GPA for your next 2 years at Emory, and if my thinking is correct, since you will be getting your 4-year degree from Emory, your GPA should be what you made those last 2 years.</p>
<p>My son has been accepted at Oxford, too (early action). I’ve seen 3 different figures on gpas and test scores-- the school’s incoming class profile, “Admission Profile, 2010 Entering Class” (separate stats for both Emory and Oxford), and the college board website, which gets its info from the school’s common data set (though I’ve seen a CDS for Emory, I’ve never seen one for Oxford). I’d say the average high school gpa for Oxford freshmen is in the 3.5-3.6 range. The average test score range and admission rate is similar to the University of Georgia, rather than Emory University main, although UGA’s average freshman gpa is significantly higher.</p>
<p>Oxford is very diverse, and its admission criteria, according to its listing on Collegeboard.com, put more emphasis on academic rigor than GPA or test scores.</p>
<p>My understanding is that while Oxford doesn’t weight high school grades, it counts all of them, not just the academic core courses.</p>
<p>While the admission rate for 2010-2011 is 59%, that may drop significantly due to an increase in applications. (Emory had a 9% increase this year, and virtually every highly ranked college is having a record year for applications.)</p>
<p>My son is very interested in attending Oxford (which is less than 40 miles from our house), and we’ll be attending an all-day session for admitted students next month. What appeals to us: the small class sizes, Emory curriculum taught by Emory professors, reputation for nurturing and camraderie, a merit scholarship, and Emory’s 100 percent of need financial aid. Plus a lot of kids from my son’s high school go there.</p>
<p>Because students of such varying backgrounds attend Oxford, I’m sure that they have varying academic records while there. Georgia high school students have to have a high school gpa of at least 3.0 to receive a HOPE scholarship and maintain that average in college to keep it. Next year, the rules tighten, so there will be some upward pressure on grades both in high school and college for nearly half the Oxford students.</p>
<p>I don’t think the OP was asking about the stats of applicants/accepted students. I think the OP was asking what the average GPA of current Oxford students was. As in, are most of the kids at Oxford getting 3.3s, 2.7s, etc. This is relevant to med school because if Oxford historically has lower average GPAs, this will reduce the applicant’s chances of getting into med school if the alternative is to go to a state school where average GPA is not a 2.7. I’ve heard comments about Oxford’s rigor, but is the average really a 2.7? Because it’d be really hard to go to a T14 law school with a 2.7. </p>
<p>@TenaciousE - Really? So law schools only look at the GPA you’ve accumulated at Emory’s main campus?</p>
<p>@TenaciousE - Really? So law schools only look at the GPA you’ve accumulated at Emory’s main campus?</p>
<p>Old thread. And Im pretty sure that’s not right.</p>
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<p>Nice try, but absolutely untrue.</p>
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<p>I’ve heard that the average GPA is around 2.7. From my talks with administrators, that doesn’t seem too far off for just a few years ago–I don’t think it represents the current state of things; Oxford has become much more competitive. </p>
<p>What you have to understand is that, even if 2.7 is correct, that’s the mean, not the median. Thus, the outlier students who fail out or who are placed on probation have GPAs well below a 2.0 and drag down the number. There isn’t a huge number of these students, but it has a nontrivial effect because of the small number of Oxford students. </p>
<p>Also, understand that students at Oxford have vastly different experiences depending on what fields there classes lie in and there are no “easy ‘A’” courses here. </p>
<p>Also Oxford’s student group is bimodal: with a large concentration toward the extremes of the score/GPA ranges (for incoming students). The top group performs better at the College of Arts and Sciences than they did at Oxford, on average, and the bottom group performs worse, on average. </p>
<p>Also, no matter how low one’s GPA or SAT score was, every student seems to believe there’s something wrong when their college GPA isn’t amazing. If you got rejected from all of the super-competitive undergrad schools you applied to, you shouldn’t suddenly expect to super amazingly at Oxford and get into uber-elite medical/law programs. </p>
<p>Also, it’s nice to look at programs overall. I remember reading that Emory’s average GPA, at graduation, is a 3.4, while the average GPA at college graduation at UNC-CH is something like a 3.0.</p>
<p>If it helps at all, I came in with an SAT score above Oxford’s 75th percentile and a GPA around their 25th percentile. I have >3.5. This is anecdotal, but of those friends whose GPA I know for first semester: 4.0, 4.0, 4.0, 4.0, 3.9, 3.9, 3.8, 3.8, 3.6, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3.5, 3.2, 3.1, 2.7, 2.5, 2.2, 1.2, 0.7.</p>
<p>1) I haven’t checked with Admission, but I have to believe there will be four years of courses, etcetera, on a student’s final transcript.</p>
<p>2) It this is really about medical school, the Oxford website does have a page on that:
[Oxford</a> College - Graduate/Medical School Appointments](<a href=“http://oxford.emory.edu/academics/after_oxford/graduate_and_medical_school_appointments.dot]Oxford”>http://oxford.emory.edu/academics/after_oxford/graduate_and_medical_school_appointments.dot)</p>
<p>So it seems pretty hard to get a 3.6 gpa to be considered for the business school, I guess.</p>
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<p>Even if you received a separate Oxford/College of Arts and Sciences GPA–which I’m fairly confident you don’t–law schools, med schools, and other graduate schools would simply put them back together.</p>
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<p>I mean, this isn’t high school. Remember that a 3.6 is the average, not a cut-off, so half the people who get in had a GPA lower than a 3.6. A 3.6 is a darn solid GPA–certainly better than the average Emory GPA. And look at the stats of the kids you’re competing with at Emory. Some of the b-school prerequisite courses are graded on a curve too.</p>
<p>I remember reading somewhere that you should be upper 50% for Goizueta, but I don’t recall where.</p>
<p>I really would love the opportunity to go to this school and my gpa (2.8) isn’t near to impressive neither is my SAT scores (1600) but I did recently review a graph of the average upcoming freshman admitted to the school and it read 3%-5% of them had a gpa of 2.5 and above; does this mean there’s still hope for me? I’m a senior by the way.</p>
<p>Actually 75% of Oxford freshmen had a high school GPA of 3.5 or higher.</p>
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<p>By the way, that 3.5 is UNweighted.</p>
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