@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…