<p>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. It’s tougher for transfers to become a full part of a class. At my reunions, I see a lot of grads who did not graduated my year, but started out my year. That first year is really more of a capstone than when the degree was actually conferred or if it even was. You do lose that as a transfer. I also met a number grads at the reunion that I had no idea were in our class as they transferred in. My school, in particular, where so many don’t dorm after freshman year that first year was really the time when most of us made those bonds. </p>
<p>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. There is that feeling among a lot of Emory students about those from Oxford. Schools have their inside pecking orders that may mean nothing to those of us on the outside, but it can make kids feel inferior while they are there. No one is going to care when that Emory degree is given where any student spent the first two years, but on a social and personal basis it may be a whole other story.</p>