I’m still really shaky on the concept of what Oxford is exactly so let me tell you what I have gathered. I’m probably totally wrong about this and I really have no intention of offending anyone who is attending Oxford. So is Oxford for people who can’t get into Emory straight out of high school so it is like a better version of a junior college where you work to get your grades up and eventually are admitted, into Emory in this case? Or am I totally wrong on that? Thanks!
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http://oxford.emory.edu/a-distinctive-place/oxford-and-emory/
http://oxford.emory.edu/a-distinctive-place/welcome-from-the-dean/
http://apply.emory.edu/discover/fastfacts.php
tl:dr - Yes, your initial idea of Oxford seems to be correct.
Erm, not quite. Oxford is like the 2-year LAC branch of Emory.
And you don’t need to work to get your grades up or have to apply to Emory. Everyone who goes to Oxford College automatically finishes up at Emory.
@PurpleTitan but in principle, again no intention of offense, it is less prestigious to start out at the oxford college than at Emory itself. Its maybe a bit easier to get into the oxford college than emory itself, correct?
Yes, Oxford College is easier to get in to than Emory proper. Williams is also easier to get in to than Harvard.
When you get older, you’ll find that the only people who obsess over prestige are teenagers and those who stay immature.
@PurpleTitan I don’t think Oxford:Emory is comparable to Williams:Harvard. I am a teenager so I guess I fit in, and also you can’t argue against the fact that an employer is going to be inclined to hire someone who went to Harvard over someone who went to Arkansas. A decision that would be based solely off of the prestige of the schools
Yes, you’re a teenager, so you seem unaware that employers would see the difference between Emory-Oxford & Emory to be about as signifigant as the difference between Williams and Harvard (or between Columbia GS and Columbia College). Trying to state that any of those schools are comparable to Arkansas really shows ignorance.
Just so y’all know - the CEO of Walmart went to Arkansas.
He did get an MBA at Tulsa as well.
Sorry - I just get tired of folks bashing Arkansas. See user name to understand why. I didn’t attend Arkansas, but many in my family did.
@Hoggirl might as well have used any other school, didn’t mean anything other than that it isnt as prestigious as Harvard, but that doesnt say alot obviously
If you start at Oxford you graduate from Emory. There is no difference to an employer. None, zip, zero. It is your first two years of college, not even the main courses in your major. Only to you as a student and for some it will be a better experience, for others not. An employer would also not care if you did two years anywhere before graduating from Harvard.
Oxford College is a two year college that’s just like forty miles or so away from Emory. It’s not “for people who couldn’t get into Emory.” Some people who are admitted to both choose Oxford. True, admissions to Oxford are “easier” than admissions to Emory, but that doesn’t mean it’s for the people who didn’t get in to Emory. Once you finish your two years at Oxford you head straight to Emory to finish your education. It’s basically just a smaller option for some students.
So if the difference in prestige between Arkansas and Harvard doesn’t say a lot, then why do you make a big deal between the prestige of Oxford College & Emory, where the difference is so small that pretty much no employer will care?
This.
@PurpleTitan well first off the difference in prestige between harvard and arkansas is huge, sorry but thats the truth. Secondly I probably erred in using the word prestige in an earlier post. What I really meant was that getting into Emory straight out of high school makes you look like a better student than if you started out at oxford (unless of course you chose to go to oxford instead of emory). Even if the delta of prestige between the two may be infinitesimal, it still looks better to go to the school that has a national ranking versus one that to my knowledge does not. This is something that should be pretty intuitive…
Not affiliated with the school, but it seems like you have a weird vendetta against Oxford College. You’re asking for more information about it but you obviously already have a preconceived notion of what it means to go there.
If it makes you feel any better, they probably wouldn’t accept you with your stats anyway. :-"
@mat324 - the problem with your reasoning is that Emory-Oxford students who then go on to graduate from Emory just have Emory diplomas. There’s no way anyone would ever know they started at Emory-Oxford at all.
Some students do better starting in a smaller, more nurturing environment You can ride the shuttle to Emory college every day if you want. You will integrate easily into Emory from Oxford.
As for Walmart and Arkansas, well the Walton family and corporate headquarters are there, so its a big duh.
@Coriander23 no vendetta, people seemed to interpret the things I was saying as being hostile or arrogant which was never my intention. That tends to happen over the internet where tones and emotions can’t be expressed, at least not a clearly. Also my grades aren’t indicative of of my abilities and I’m assuming that you found my stats from one of my previous posts. Posts in which I did not give reasons for my abysmal GPA, reasons that would likely make up for it.
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