<p>It’s very integrated (I mean, it isn’t even a true “transfer”, almost all of the cohort migrates to main campus. By then, relationships have been establish and a excellent academic foundation has been set such that many Oxford students blow away many students on main campus. Also, @ cptofthehouse: Perhaps you know the wrong people. Get real, that doesn’t define most of Emory’s graduates who know better and have friends from Oxford…just throwing it out there. The people with Oxford resentment or elitism are kind of a vocal, almost dumb, minority. Oxford students don’t feel inferior because they have friends on main campus and integrate nicely into the social and academic scene. Why would someone like aig or these girls I know that got into Caltech and Stanford (both receiving top honors and prizes in Science departments, and one girl just getting the NSF fellowship in her first year at Caltech) feel inferior. Students from Oxford are not dumb and generally know that their educational training in the first two years was either better or more rigorous than main campus. Given that, they do not typically harbor feelings of outcast or inferiority from what I can tell. I feel like an actual transfer from an outside school of “less prestige” may be more concerned about things like that (and even they receive no resentment. Emory, overall, just isn’t that type of place). Oxford and Emory (even those who objectively view Oxford as a back door don’t particular turn their noses up to it, they just recognize the admissions threshold is lower. They know it’s good and that generally the students produced by it are good. They don’t have resentment about it or anything and would not treat Oxford students differently. Those who do have other issues in my opinion, but I don’t many of such people. They are so rare that the girl I tutor shocked me when she expressed resentment toward how Oxford supposedly affected our rank, which it doesn’t. It’s just ignorance and stupidity) students more or less get over it (for those who have something to get over)… Also, we often don’t even know who the continuees are until they tell us! And if they seem like a good person and are performing as well or better than us, who is going to care? Just don’t go there…people on main with true Oxford resentment is more like what the teaparty is to politics or something (luckily, they don’t have as much influence. Oxford students have more of an impact or influence on main campus than many of those sorts that would waste their effort and perform intellectual gymnastics so as to find a reason to resent Oxford students as opposed to a normal transfer). </p>
<p>@aigiqinf or @whenhen : Do you mind explaining this or things to consider about Oxford or the transition because I cannot objectively address this without being annoyed by what was just said (the fact that someone is going to attempt to generalize how the school I went views a whole group of students just baffles me! There is no point in me getting too riled up when people who actually went through it can explain it).</p>