Oxford College with Tuition-waived Scholarship and Great State Univeristy with Full Ride Scholarship

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I personally would not pay for Oxford to Emory unless I had some really strong arguments for it. I can tell you that freshman year is the time you meet a lot of your classmates and as a rule it is not ideal having to transfer

I strongly suggest you not comment on a school which you have no first hand experience with. As Bernie pointed out there’s a huge difference between transferring from two totally separate schools and continuing from Oxford to Emory’s main campus. </p>

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I do not know how integrated Oxford is with Emory, but I 'm bluntly going to tell you that every single Emory grad I know (all young people) put their nose up to Oxford.

Oxford 20 years ago was a remarkably different place than it is today. By the way, I participated in many activities on Emory’s main campus when I was at Oxford, including an off campus alternative spring break where I was one of two Oxford affiliated students. If the students who started out at Main judged me, they certainly didn’t express such a sentiment to me. Most of the questions were just targeted towards what Oxford was like. FWIW, one of the heads of Emory’s alumni association told me that she was strongly considering Oxford for her daughter since she enjoyed smaller schools. </p>

<p>To the OP, I’ve attended both Oxford and a large state flagship. To be quite frank, I think the quality of freshman/ sophomore education at Oxford is vastly higher than that of my flagship. The reality is, at Oxford teaching comes first. I don’t mean to imply that teaching is relegated to some unimportant position at state research universities, but having served on the hiring committees for both a philosophy candidate at Oxford and a geology faculty position at the University of Oklahoma, there’s just no comparison. When the professors at Oxford interviewed the candidates they did briefly discuss how the research interests aligned with the school, but far more important was how the candidate would teach a class, how the candidate would incorporate her own research into discussions, how the candidate would fit into the teaching culture at Oxford. The geology position largely involved discussions about research abilities, noting that most of the candidates were easily understandable, and how the professor would further the long term goals of the geology department. </p>

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For the first two years at Oxford, is it difficult to land some paid summer internship because the campus is located in the middle of a residential area and about 45 minutes away from Atlanta and some summer internships do need interview?

A fair number of my sophomore friends at Oxford interned at various places across the US over the summer. Aigiqnf, who has possibly the most impressive undergraduate resume I’ve ever seen, is in a far better position to elaborate than I am. </p>

<p>As far as majoring is concerned, Emory used to not allow students to declare a major until they’ve reached the equivalent of their second semester sophomore year (I think it changed to second semester freshman year last year although I’m not sure). The school expects that students will change their academic focuses as they become exposed to a wide variety of fields of study. Keep in mind that because of Oxford’s small size some major classes are only offered in very limited capacities as compared to the Main campus. Computer science, physics, international studies, and inter disciplinary studies are all fields where going to Oxford might hurt a person academically. </p>