@gapyearapplicant : My son is a Freshman at Oxford and from what I’ve heard from my son, I can agree with what @bernie12 wrote. I can tell you that while there are some students from Georgia that go home on weekends, most are/do not. I know my son goes to Atlanta on most weekends with his Ox friends. The only down side I’ve seen of Oxford is that because it is so much smaller, the number of classes offered are limited and, as a freshman, you may not get the classes you really want… although, you can look at this as a good thing from a liberal arts perspective as it may “require” you to take a class in a different field to fulfill a GenEd requirement.