I am interested in majoring finance at Goizueta. I am curious how attending Oxford college for the first two years will affect my admissions to Goizueta. Is it true that going to Emory Main gives you a better chance?
I heard that it is more difficult to get good grades at Oxford because each student gets more attention and higher expectation professors than they do at Emory main. It seems like a good thing, but I just dont want to risk going to Goizueta.
@rokrea : I generally think the issue is completing the requirements and not the GPA. Like some pre-reqs may have to be taken on main. I don’t know if this is true anymore though. GBS is aware of differences in intensity of courses and courseload and schools so generally knows how to adjust for that (like if you took an INQ version of a pre-req, they’ll know it is different). For example, the “I was pre-med before” generally gets lots of leniency.
Also, please be open-minded! GBS should not be the only goal when coming to Emory. There are many more things offered by Emory and many more pathways to jobs and careers in business that may actually be preferred by some companies. Remember that many of the elite schools that place the best at some finance and consulting companies DO NOT have undergraduate business schools. Many companies are actually veering away from such candidates more often because training in UG business programs is being questioned lots more as companies are beginning to see questionable results from such graduates and are seeing better results from those coming from more liberal arts backgrounds (especially ones that provided better quantitative training and/focused more on writing).
Also, not gonna lie…the b-school pre-reqs minus the ones actually hosted by the b-school, make it fairly easy to maintain a decent GPA. Generally the STEM courses and quantitative courses at Oxford are more prone to lower grade distributions from what friends told me, but most profs. courses, you end up with a grade reflective of what you put in because many courses are not so hard that they truly benefit from curving to get average grades to something decent (especially for b-school pre-reqs).
I’ve got a son starting at Goizuetta this fall.
My take: If you take the pre-req’s, diligently do your work, and check off a few other boxes (EC’s at Oxford, get to know a professor well enough for a personal LOR) you’ll get into the program. There are enough less-than-serious students at the two campuses to make you look good.
At our Oxford revisit last year I believe they said as long as your grades were good and you showed some leadership/ec interest while at Oxford, something like 75% of Oxford applicants to Goizuetta were accepted into the B school program. I don’t remember the exact number they mentioned but I think it was in that range - I’m sure they will repeat the percentage again at revisit day this spring but the odds are definitely in your favor once you are accepted as a freshman.
@chemmchimney : If that is true, those numbers are the same as main. However, I’d imagine less Oxford students are interested (they tend to have lots of pre-meds and pre-law students though).