Advantages of applying EDII to Emory?

whenhen
Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:41:15 +0000

You have no idea why I chose Oxford, so please don’t just assume it was because I was on a prestige hunt. Where I’m from, Emory isn’t prestigious AT ALL.

When I toured colleges I liked both small LACs and big state schools, but felt that I’d be overwhelmed by the intro lecture classes at a major research university, and would grow out of a LAC within a few years. Oxford solves both of those issues because it allows students to get both experiences without the hassle of transferring and losing their core groups of friends. Also I’m a very outdoorsy person, so the rural thing is a huge plus.

Quite frankly, without Oxford, Emory is a rather generic (but still excellent) institution. As a professor on the provost search committee said “Every good college has a med school, a business school, and a law school. But only Emory has Oxford”.