<p>My nephew entered UF with 40 credits. At first he said he didn’t want to miss anything, and started taking core courses like biology at the freshman level. Now, after 3 years, he admits it’s nice to have the AP credits but he’s just using them for elective credits so he can take a 12 or 13 credit semester instead of 16. He didn’t want to rely on HS chemistry, bio, or math when the college courses are better. He did say he was okay with his APUSH level. I wouldn’t worry so much about the AP and dual enroll classes. Nice to have, not essential.</p>
<p>Your daughter has to decide, but I’d find Oxford suffocatingly small. I know it’s near Emory and they can take classes back and forth, but I wouldn’t want to go to a school smaller than my high school. I transferred from a large high school to a huge high school when I was a senior, and I was awed at how many more classes were offered just because there were more kids. I wasn’t limited to English 4, but could take Comparative Lit, or World Lit, or Hemingway. At the old school there were 2 foreign languages offered, at the new 6 or 7. When I got to college? The catalog was a golden ticket to the world.</p>
<p>Especially for an undecided student, and this student just isn’t undecided in which liberal arts courses to take but considering engineering and sciences and liberal arts, I think having a bigger campus and more choices would be better. Why be limited to 3 or 4 language choices at Oxford when there might be 10 at the university? Lots of English and history and government courses, as well as all the math and sciences. My daughter looked at a LAC last year and they were trying to sell her on the 3+2 engineering path. I noticed there were only 5 professors in the math department. What if you don’t like 2 of them? I just found it so limiting (and she wasn’t interested in the 3+2 program).</p>
<p>OP is lucky money isn’t an issue, so look to opportunities. For the undecided, I think bigger is better.</p>