<p>Not that I know of. This might be helpful though, it’s from a view pages back in this thread:</p>
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<p>I’m doing random. Lol</p>
<p>@whs2012</p>
<p>Then you’ll probably get my S! LOL</p>
<p>Hi,
Please help me if you know Oxford-Emory well.
How are Oxford graduates doing at Emory? Are they well-accepted by Emory kids and performing well at classes? One of my worst nighmares is that Oxford guys’d become sort of “second-class” citizens once they move to the main campus.</p>
<p>They are accepted in well. I mean, of course there will be a few haters, but they will eventually get over themselves. The Oxford kids perform just as well in their classes post-transition ad the Emory main students do.</p>
<p>I don’t why, but the idea that they’re might be some haters on the Atlanta campus never bothered me. I’m not there for them; I’m there for me.</p>
<p>Is it easy to transfer from Oxford to another university if it doesn’t work out, or if a student really wants to attend another institution? Does anyone know of any success stories?</p>
<p>Oxford states that six percent of Oxford graduates transfer to a college other than Emory. Obviously, that’s a high retention rate. But it shouldn’t be a problem to transfer out. Grads have an associate degree from America’s most prestigious junior college. I would imagine a fair number of Georgia students transfer to UGA or Ga. Tech due to finances. Tech has a webpage to match its requirements with other colleges’ course offerings (for purposes of transferring to Tech), and Oxford is listed. That 94 percent retention rate also suggests (to me) that Emory wants very much to keep Oxford students in the system. I suspect Emory may try to re-recruit Oxford sophomores who want to transfer out. To me, the most interesting question would be this: What do Oxford graduates think of the financial aid offers they get from Emory main going into their junior year?</p>
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<p>I’m not sure that there’s much a university can do to make transferring more or less difficult…</p>
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<p>This would be interesting to know. I would hope that students and their families had taken financial considerations into account before selecting a school.</p>
<p>@aig</p>
<p>People do take financial considerations into account, but that doesn’t mean Oxford=Emory. It makes perfect sense to keep all options open. Finances and financial aid change, Emory is significantly more expensive than Oxford, many Oxford students have two-year scholarships that won’t be available at Emory, and a student who didn’t get into Goizueta might be very well advised to go to B-school somewhere else. Bear in mind that families in Georgia may have a different perspective than out-of-staters. For instance, we compare Oxford and Emory to UGA and Ge. Tech more than we do to Rice or Vanderbilt. Right now, Georgia’s universities are under tremendous financial pressure. Tuition has increased, budgets have been cut, and the state’s signature scholarship, HOPE, ain’t what it used to be. This may change over the next two years (for better or worse). Also, bear in mind that to many Georgians, Emory doesn’t enjoy much higher prestige than Georgia Tech. Georgia doesn’t have a top-tier liberal arts college available to all students. (The two highest rated LA schools are women-only, Spelman and Agnes Scott.) So Oxford, with its liberal arts curriculum, is a unique alternative to spending the first two years of college at Tech or UGA. In other words, some students–and I would suspect this is truer for Georgianns than OOSers–may have no firm plans to continue on to Emory. The way it’s set up, they don’t have to, and a lot of us will take a fresh look at finances in two years.</p>
<p>what?! emory outranks vanderbilt in premed and numerous other categories. how can you say that it’s compared to a school like georgia tech…!?</p>
<p>@luckiecharmz</p>
<p>My point is very basic. GEORGIANS compare the schools within the state, especially since we have the HOPE scholarship, which offers a powerful inducement to stay close to home. Many students don’t want to go out of state, so they look at the top schools here in making their decisions. Vanderbilt, Duke, and Rice don’t even come into play. Instead, it’s Emory, Georgia Tech, and UGA. Obviously, if you want to be an engineer, then it’s Tech. As for science majors, well, that’s the subject of debate.</p>
<p>Tech or Emory? That’s a big question for many of Georgia’s top high school students. (Almost 40 percent of Tech’s students are OOS or International.)</p>
<p>Oh, by the way, a recent world ranking of universities places Tech in the elite of the elite. It’s ranked 27th in the world, well ahead of Emory, which holds a respectable 61st place. Vanderbilt is 51st.
[Top</a> 200 - The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2010-2011](<a href=“http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/top-200.html]Top”>World University Rankings 2010-11 | Times Higher Education (THE))</p>
<p>@Malliford</p>
<p>I think some of us interpreted
to mean that you did not consider Emory and Rice/Vanderbilt to be in the same league. Thanks for clarifying that you meant that most top students looked instate and didn’t consider out-of-state schools.</p>
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I agree that the other poster did not seem familiar with how good Tech is. However, I do have some issues with world rankings: namely, that they focus on research output, which inherently favors large public schools. Also, the research output of your school may or may not be relevant to the undergraduate experience there–especially if that’s school’s research is largely outside of your intended field. At my state’s own UNC-CH (ranked 30th on this list), even current students will tell straight-up tell you how most courses are taught by TAs and the class sizes are insane. Also, 82% of students are instate by law… the caliber of undergraduate students doesn’t match that of the graduate students and professors doing the research that earned that rank.</p>
<p>However, Tech is a great school, and I think both Emory and Tech will continue to benefit from collaboration (apparently they have a joint [graduate] department of biomedical engineering).</p>
<p>@aiginqif</p>
<p>Well, I prefaced the comparison by talking about the point of view of families in Georgia. As for the rankings, I take them with a grain of salt. If you look at the starting salary surveys, Georgia Tech grads come out on top in Georgia, about ten grand ahead of Emory grads–because so many Tech alums are either engineering or business majors. I’m just saying a lot of top Georgia students apply to those two schools with UGA (hopefully Honors) as their safety. I’ll bet that exact combination occurs a thousand times a year.</p>
<p>tech has 31% graduation rate. uga has 51%. emory has over 80%
getting into tech is easy graduating is hard. also, over 60% of tech people lose HOPE scholarship after freshman year. </p>
<p>tech and emory are totally diff. tech is known for engineering. emory is known for science/health/business. now tech has a good business program but it’s not as good as emory’s but it’s better than uga’s. the problem is that all freshman year people have to take a science and a math in tech. those classes are extremely hard at tech because of the large class sizes and less teacher-student interactions, and tend to be weed out classes. there is a reason tech’s graduation rate is so low. </p>
<p><a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/georgia-tech-1569[/url]”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/georgia-tech-1569</a></p>
<p>See? That’s the kind of comparing I’m talking about! However, I wonder if this is a four-year graduation rate you’re looking at. Tech students have internship opportunities that may (happily) push back their graduation dates. I’ve seen six-year graduation figures for Tech that are much higher than those.</p>
<p>see:<a href=“http://tagstateoftheindustry.com/educational-overview/higher_education/e31_graduation_rates.html[/url]”>http://tagstateoftheindustry.com/educational-overview/higher_education/e31_graduation_rates.html</a></p>
<p>Hi, can anyone help with my situation?
I am waitlisted by Oxford College and I am an international student. I sent an email to the admission committee on Wednesday to restate my interest. And they replied that night that they will not be taking many studetns from the waitlist due to “a record number of highly qualified applicant.” Honestly, I think my standard test scores is the problem. it’s a 1320 for SAT (a super high score for math and a low score for critical reading) and 98 for toefl. I really want to go to Oxford, but I don’t know what to do next.
Should I reply back to state my continued interest or should I use another approach?(I can not think of one yet)
Btw, is there a difference between emailing to the adimmsion group and emailing to my local representative?
thanks ahead!</p>
<p>@Malliford Ironically, I just realized how similar the Emory-UGA-Tech dilemma is to the Duke-UNC-NCSU dilemma in my state. </p>
<p>@redpotato5555 I would recommend you contact the admissions counselor for your area and explain any unique reasons you want to attend Oxford. However, you should keep in mind that Oxford will not be taking many students from the waitlist.</p>
<p>I’ll be applying to both Emory and Oxford in a couple of days. I earned my AA in high school and have about 99 credits. I’m willing to give up all but 30 or so to attend Oxford. Am I eligible or what? Thanks.</p>
<p>thanks, aigiqinf, i have another question. do you know what else to include in these emails? I can only think of writing about my recent achievements. n’ should i mention anything regarding my sat score since that’s my weakness?</p>