<p>Time for me to toss in my two pennies, I guess.</p>
<p>I disagree with Bernie when he said people don’t choose Oxford to be affiliated with Emory at the end. I feel they do. It’s not a bad thing, but it’s the truth.</p>
<p>However, Bernie’s dead on about everything else.</p>
<p>Emory kids might have higher stats than Oxford kids, but that doesn’t mean we’re smarter. In fact, anyone who uses college admissions to judge smartness are being pretty stupid in my opinion. When we were applying to college, we were 17. We were being judged on our performances beginning from when we were 14 years old. I turned 20 a week ago, and, looking back, while I might have accomplished more than other people (and believe me, I’m proud of it) in high school, I hadn’t done anything “big” yet. And I’m going to go out on a limb and say most high school students haven’t done anything “monumental”. Hell, we were young.</p>
<p>When you’re in college, nobody gives a **** about high school performance. It doesn’t matter. We’re all even now, and we’re all starting on the same footing. And I’ll be the first to say that the Oxford kids I know (not many yet because I’m a Sophomore) are intelligent and interesting.
So, (I realize this is anecdotal evidence, but the point I’m trying to make is universal) while I may have passed the AP Calculus BC test with a 5 when I was 18 years old, and while I may have had the chance to go to Brown or Dartmouth instead of Emory, I’ll be the first to say that I’d be pretty ****ed if 10 years from now people remembered me as the “high-level high school achievement guy” instead of the " slightly above average college achievement guy". I want people to judge me based on what I do from when I’m 19-23 years old. Not 14-17 years old.
If you judge Oxford kids based on what they’ve done in college (and not as 15 year old kids), you’ll see that they are pretty damn smart and definitely have taken advantage of their opportunities.</p>
<p>Sparknotes: It’s easier to get into Oxford. But that doesn’t mean they’re dumber than us. For the most part, it’s what you do in college and not what you do as a 14-17 year old that defines your future. And almost all Oxford kids have shown to be pretty intelligent and that they deserve to be here.</p>
<p>On another note, I know plenty of Emory kids who won’t take a notoriously hard class because it will mess up their oh-so-precious premed GPAs. Oxford kids, from what I see, are more likely to do it. They seem to want to learn more than we do. Not pointing fingers at either group. I’m just saying, and Bernie’s Orgometallic class seems to illustrate that, too.<br>
I say that to point out that Oxford kids want to learn for learning’s sake more than we do. I’m not saying that they’re smarter/dumber than us. Just more intellectually curious as a whole than we are.</p>
<p>If the OP has a choice, come to the ATL campus. ATL>rural GA no matter how you slice it.</p>