Thanks for the insight. I have a specific question to "The Knife and Gun" .
Yesterday I visited Oxford. What they told me was Oxford kids do better when go to main campus and they will do better in medical school.
Why do you say Oxford is hard. I am not top 10%, lot of people think as I have done lot of research in my state school as a HS 4 years.
I need to work hard and ask lot of questions to get an A. I am now doing Physics 1, Stats , Organic chem with English , Latin and Psychology.
I am struggling with Physics 1, Organic chem as I have to spend time on it. Others I am getting As.
Given my situation I thought Oxford small class size would be better than Rutgers . Please advise.
For all the others who replied kindly here is my question.
Next Rutgers has 3 campuses . I got a scholarship from Campden but not from other two. New Brunswick has the Sophomore year Med school selection program.
Given my situation in High school and I am determined to become a Doctor, what campus in Rutgers would be better ?
Well there's a grain of truth there in that they do better at the main campus than they did at the Oxford one, but that's more because of how brutally difficult the Oxford campus is. The theory is that you weren't able to make the cut for Emory admission, so they send you to Oxford where you basically have to "prove" you are ready to go to Emory. And a lot of people either don't make the cut (Tons of Oxford kids are failed out or withdraw every year), or do but survive with a severely damaged gpa.
If they do better or worse in medschool is a ridiculous statement. Oxford (or Emory, or Rutgers for that matter) has no clue how their students do in med school, and if they say they do that's a bold faced lie. If there's a grain of truth to that, again it's just because the attrition of the Oxford and Emory premed programs weeds out a ton of students. So only the very best make it out alive.
Also there's no research available at Oxford, so you'll need to wait til 3rd year when you arrive here to do that, which isn't ideal.
Overall, I get why you think Emory is a good choice. It's a prestigious school who's weight is known by adcoms. They produce a TON of premeds and send many to awesome programs. But by going to take a huge risk that you may be outcompeted with unnecessarily difficult weed out classes and hoards of gunners happy to take you down. I don't really know how to explain it without sounding over dramatic lol...it's just one of the most hatefilled, hypercompetitive, gunnerish places you could chose to get a pre med education. Emory breaks a lot of people. It broke me more than once, and the fact that I made it to med school in a goddamn miracle. Like for context we have a problem with kids studying so much that they actually give themselves seizures. So many people tale up stress smoking that they need to hire a security guard to sit outside the library all night to make sure students don't smoke cigarettes.
I hope this helps and isn't too doom and gloom. Come to Emory if you want, but come in knowing what you're getting into.
Also, how are you taking ochem in high school?
Dual enrollment? Be careful with that, last I recall Emory has a limit on dual enrollment credits
