Transfer from Oxford College Emory Univ [after first semester]

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As a statistical aspect to consider, if your daughter were to research schools with high retention rates, she may lessen her chance of being dissatisfied at a potential transfer destination:

2026 National Universities with the Highest First-Year Retention Rate | US News Rankings https://share.google/kGEnlWsScVIpRMud7

2026 Liberal Arts Colleges with the Highest First-Year Retention Rate | US News Rankings https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges/freshmen-least-most-likely-return

As an opinion, such information is best considered along with personal preferences and intuition, however.

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But if these schools have high retention rates for freshmen, wouldn’t that mean there would be a few spots for transfers?

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Funny my daughter did that on her own. Apparently Emory has the 4th largest transfer rate (obviously we were not aware of this prior to attending)

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Not sure that’s correct - they show 96% and 94% one year retention the last two years. And over 80% 4 year graduation and 90% 6 year.

Perhaps it doesn’t include Oxford.

None of it or the second guessing matters though - if it’s not right for her then it isn’t. Perhaps if other things happened, like she made the orchestra, it could be different.

But if she’s made her mind to leave, the stats are irrelevant. All that matters is it’s not right for her.

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SJC non-stop destinations are listed at Nonstop Destinations | San José Mineta Intl. Airport (SJC) | Bay Area, CA . Southwest is the largest airline there with a little more than half of flights. SJC ↔ SCU is about a 16 minute public transit bus ride.

SFO non-stop destinations are listed at https://www.flysfo.com/nonstop . United is the largest airline there. SFO ↔ SCU is about a 1:18 ride on BART and Caltrain plus a short walk.

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It does depend on whether their business model includes a significant transfer intake even in the absence of frosh attrition.

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Agree– and for colleges where lots of kids spend junior year abroad, they can predict pretty reliably how many beds will be vacant every year even though the students are still enrolled.

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That’s like Dartmouth’s “sophomore summer”, requiring them to attend then (barring a few excused options) which allows for more students to be able to attend.

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Hi, I sent you a private message.

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3 posts were split to a new thread: Transferring from Oxford College Emory for business major

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Franklin & Marshall accepts Spring transfers. Appears to have flexibility with the published deadline.

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But isn’t it sort of repeating Oxford, but with a better location ?

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Interesting perspective.

F&M awards BS/BA degrees and is located near other small colleges; Emory at Oxford is a two year school which awards AA (Associate of Arts) degrees.

One difference is that this & fourth year students at F&M are facing decisions regarding graduate school/professional school and early careers.

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It’s hard to follow because the person who asked - not OP - said this:

“Looking to transfer to a school that has a highly ranked Business School but also has college football/ sports/ school spirit, so not a LAC”

So that’s why I made the comment about F&M.

As for other schools it’s close to, I think just Millersville.

Thanks

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Just wondering if your daughter was able to transfer?

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