<p>I don’t think we’re smarter (we did do better on a giant multiple choice test though) and if we are, we honestly don’t act like it, sorry (Emory students seem to look down on nerdiness anyway. Most of us seem like average people who work hard and test well. We are hardly interested in “acting smart” or doing things that reveal our brilliance, if it exists, outside of formal settings like a competition or classroom for example). Seems as if many of the Oxford students are more intellectual (or at least intellectually interesting) to me. This may be because Oxford is for students who want that sort of orientation. As an anecdote, I can tell you that a huge chunk of the people in my organometallic course this past semester were from Oxford. The only two sections of intro. organic chemistry (From main campus) represented in the upperlevel course were from Weinschenk and Soria’s (including me, this coincidence is natural as Soria teaches organometallic and we’re used to him and his difficulty) section. There was only one person from any of the 3-5 other professors that teach 221-222 on main (versus like 9 Oxford students). That tells how willing students on main campus are to take an academic risk or tackle a difficult subject area out of mere interest. So past taking multiple choice tests (which is not the majority of tests at Oxford or Emory anyway, and is thus irrelevant as a basis of comparison), we are hardly smarter than them. I don’t have time to poke at people’s grammar. I’m sure there are many Emory students who choose not to speak “proper” English all of the time. Let’s stop the Oxford bashing. It’s stupid and I can provide several other anecdotes where they may be better off than a lot of us. Our experiences in college speak louder than entrance statistics. And if we are still at the exact same level as when we came in, then we need to ask for a refund because Emory isn’t doing its job. Throw that crap out of the window.</p>
<p>Jared94, Here is an interesting link from the provost’s(I think) office that has a section adressing this very issue: <a href=“http://provost.emory.edu/documents/students/undergraduatereport.pdf[/url]”>http://provost.emory.edu/documents/students/undergraduatereport.pdf</a></p>
<p>It begins on page 13 of the booklet.</p>