<p>PianosMakeMusic,</p>
<p>My recollection is that Oxford requires at least three semesters before moving over to the main Emory campus. However, you should check the Website to be sure.</p>
<p>According to the catalog, there’s no reason why you couldn’t–and one of the admission counselors told me I could graduate in one year during my visit to Oxford last summer… although you don’t “transfer” to the main campus, you “continue.” I doubt, however, that many people do… not that many people actually have 32 hours of dual enrollment credits at any college you go to and your credits have to line up with enough of Oxford’s graduation/continuation requirements to let you graduate in one year.</p>
<p>30 ACT –> 2120 SAT w/ 800 CR. Yay for improvement! =D I guess my chances are pretty good now?</p>
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<p>I wouldn’t consider myself an “Oxtard”. Really, look at oxfords stats. Is a 25-29 ACT range ■■■■■■■■? I think they are just jealous, IMO. Yeah they might have worked harder, but I’m just as intelligent if not more when I put the slightest amount of effort into something. Oxford is full of procrastinators and lazy bums who couldn’t make it into Emory main NOT because they weren’t intelligent enough, but because they didn’t try hard enough. And even still, the admissions process is totally bizarre. I’m sure many 2200’ers were rejected from Emory while 2000’ers were accepted…so if the 2200 guy decided to go to Oxford, is he really less intelligent than the guy who scored a 2000? I don’t think so…</p>
<p>Believe me, if you meet me in person, you would never guess that I slack off, or that I’m barely in the top 10%, or that I only scored a 26 on the ACT because I’m just as intelligent. I could start talking arrogantly about how I diagnosed myself with a rare disease and how doctors at a top hospital think I’m a prodigy and wanted me to intern with them…or how I was offered a paid fellowship this summer in particle physics at Rice (which can probably gain me admission if I really wanted to go), or how I was offered scholarship after scholarship even with my stats…but I won’t…I’m not the kind of guy to brag and make myself seem better than someone else. The people who go to Emory main really have some issues if they are so arrogant and conceited to think they are better than the oxford kids. If one ever told me that to my face, I’d die of laughter.</p>
<p>Many members of CC Emory forum seem to have this idea that they “earned” a spot at Emory because of hard work. The truth is that it’s a college’s prerogative to accept whichever students it wants. This attitude seems to stem from a general sense of entitlement… I don’t know about the rest of you, but I was floored by the recent thread of an ED applicant who expected grant money effectively “just because.”</p>
<p>The above post is complete BS. Emory can accept whoever they want in theory but if they decided to not accept kids who worked hard and got high SAT scores and GPAs they would fall out of the top 20 in rankings. As for this sense of entitlement, in most other industrialized countries it is a given that people who work the hardest and get the highest scores get into the best schools. In Asia if someone does well in school, other people assume that they worked the hardest. In the US people often attribute success to innate talent or other factors. I don’t see why it is considered entitlement to believe that hard work should be rewarded. In Australia, if you get in the top percentile on exams in high school, you basically get to pick what university you can go to. In the 1990s some could claim that the US educational system produced the best economy in the world but now that claim is laughable. Also, I got accepted to Johns Hopkins, Rice and Georgetown. I would never have gone to Oxford and I would be perfectly happy if I had never gotten accepted to Emory.</p>
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<p>Unless they accept these students to begin at a separate campus that’s not counted in the US News rankings? </p>
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Those who get the highest scores are rarely those who work the hardest; usually, it’s those who were fortunate enough to be born into the right environment. </p>
<p>In most other industrialized country, the “best” schools are public; they exist for the benefit of the country. In the United States, the “best” schools are mostly private–and a private school does whatever it believes to be in its best interest.</p>
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This is because hard work only gets you so far. </p>
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<p>Congratulations.</p>
<p>I went to a public high school and it was one of the best schools in the country. High achievers in both academics and athletics almost always get to the top through hard work (as long as they have a certain level of innate ability). In Asian countries where most people accept this as true, students vastly outperform their counterparts in the US.</p>
<p>how is the social life at oxford? i know there isn’t much to do in oxford/covington… is there a lot of partying? do a lot of the students go to atlanta or the main campus to do something fun?</p>
<p>Citylife, I see many people scoring over 2100 getting rejected from Emory. It’s not all about test scores. If one person showed more interest, had an amazing life story, or had very good extracurriculars, then they have a good shot with lower test scores. A friend in my AP Chem class scores a 19something on her SAT and got in to Emory main. She is a perfect example of how it is just not about the numbers. The admissions process for the top 30 or so schools is unquestionably bizarre. But…the reason she probably got in over many of the other applicants is because her knowledge extends far beyond that of just the high school curriculum. My school doesn’t place much emphasis on core studies as they do career studies. I go to a magnet school that you have to be ACCEPTED to. And it’s pretty hard to get into. They have over 1500 applications and only 500 spots each year. I’m in the pre-med program with an emphasis in emergency medical studies. If you gave me a standardized exam covering medical topics actually RELATED to skills I will need as an ER Physician such as: iv insertion, acls skills, trauma life support, disaster psychology, triage, pathophysiology, pharmacology, anatomy, etc., I’d score in the 1% tile and I’d bet money on that. Even though I only scored a 26 ACT, and I’m barely in the top 10% (of a school with a >33% admissions rate), I’m happy with all that I’ve achieved in high school…and I already have SOO many connections when it becomes time to apply to medical school (what really matters). And even though many people need to down me (and many other future oxford students) for their “ego,” I know that they can’t even begin to compare to me in so many aspects of academic life. :)</p>
<p>One last thing. NOW I know why Rice (even though similar in rank) is FAR better of a school than Emory. If Rice wasn’t 15 minutes from home, I’d be attending there. I applied to both Oxford and Emory main, and even if I get accepted to Emory main, I will be going to oxford so that I will actually have friends. I hate cocky/arrogant people who have no right to act that way. News flash! Emory is barely a top 20 school (ranked #20) and all of the students who attend have no right to act so conceited. Maybe if this was like Yale or Columbia, but certainly not Emory.</p>
<p>…sooo what about the social life?</p>
<p>I visited during the summer–and I’m only an applicant–so I really can’t answer that question. =/ And maybe it’s a good sign that not too many Oxford students are on CC. lol</p>
<p>I’m going to the Emory main and Oxford campuses over spring break! I’m excited and slightly nervous that I won’t like it or something. :/</p>
<p>Have fun, and make sure you tell us about your experience at both campuses!</p>
<p>I don’t see why more people don’t go to Oxford for cost factor. Sooooo much cheaper at Oxford if you shoot for scholarship money. Plus leadership roles as early as freshmen year is a nice draw. The representative at Goizueta told me that Oxford students tend to be the ones handling leadership positions best. I had two options</p>
<p>1)go to emory main campus. pro: bragging rights con: cost</p>
<p>2)go to oxford campus pro:ALOT of scholarship money, early leadership roles</p>
<p>I mean, to be fair, this is a tiny example of pros and cons. But long story short, not a bad choice at all to choose Oxford over emory college</p>
<p>Guys (idk if I asked this already), but is it impossible to get merit scholarship money if you applied RD and not ED? Like on the website they make it seem like the only way to receive merit aid is if you applied early decision.</p>
<p>Oxford doesn’t have Early Decision, but I think most, if not all, merit money is awarded to Early Action applicants.</p>
<p>so, is anyone gonna answer the question about partying/social life at oxford? i was admitted there and am considering it but don’t want to live in the middle of nowhere for 2 years if there’s not at least a good on-campus party scene</p>
<p>I don’t know how many current students are here (or if there are any). Maybe they’re too busy partying to answer questions on CC…</p>