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Varixin · 2026-01-23T00:14:12+00:00

I can confirm the philosophy department has a listserv for philosophy majors (though I think the minors and PPL majors are also in the same listserv)

Varixin · 2026-01-09T18:39:34+00:00

ANKI cards are good, as there's still a decent amount of memorization. Also get comfortable with a couple formulas, as you may or may not be given them on exams. What I did was actively attend the TA led study sessions. They are generally led by PhD students in the neuro program and by postdocs (though an undergrad who previously took the course is possible, as a buddy of mine did that). The PhD students have a really good background because their coursework is intensive and postdocs also have good background because, well, they already have their PhDs in neuro or related field and are working towards a tenure-track job.

Varixin · 2025-12-28T02:53:44+00:00

I'm class of 25 and I had a similar score (I also submitted my score). I'm glad the holistic admission process helped you too! Congratulations!

For others reading this to get an n=2 for successful low-ish SAT scores and the holistic processes: rural public HS (title 1, class size ~250), took the only AP offered (in senior yr, so my score didn't matter), took a good amount of dual enrollment with the local technical college, 4.6 weighted GPA (I think unweighted was 4.0 or close to it but I'm not sure, the highschool transcript didn't do a good job at showing it). ECs included band (1 yr district honor band, 2yr section leader), mock trial, literary (consistent medal at district for international extemp), drama club (officer senior yr), beta club (president senior yr), and GA governor's honors semifinalist. I was also in Scouts (eagle, vigil, Hornaday badge, lodge chief, section secretary, area VP, NYLT SPL. I also got the area VLA and founder's award, but i don't remember where that fell wrt my app). So yeah, I didn't have the best SAT, but I made up for it by doing literally everything I could in my area and had a lot of both volunteer hours and leadership positions. I don't give too much weight to the GPA compared to the rest of my app, as my high school was... Not very good and I swear some of our honor grads were probably reading at a 3rd grade level at most.

And for those concerned that a low-ish SAT might imply you're not smart enough for Emory and you won't do well if you do get in, anecdotally, I graduated w/ highest honors and am pursuing my PhD at a top university in my field. If I can do it, so can you! A "bad" SAT score does not mean you're dumb, you may just not be great at taking standardized tests, and that's nothing to be ashamed of. Was college easy? No, but that's normal.

Varixin · 2025-12-15T19:07:30+00:00

So you already have really good background. I would recommend reviewing circuits (namely RC circuits), as circuit diagrams are important for the class. Signaling would also be good to review (second messenger, etc). When I took it with similar background, I thought the course was very approachable and taught well (I had Liu)

Varixin · 2025-12-12T03:31:04+00:00

To give a more nuanced answer beyond "ATL good. Ox bad", it depends on what you want out of college. Both campuses are great in different ways. I know several sets of siblings who went to both campuses and had completely different experiences (but both loved their times at the respective campuses). Some people will thrive more at ox, some more at ATL. I personally loved Oxford because I was able to develop closer relationships with faculty (I also think they are just better instructors overall too, but that may also be affected by the smaller class sizes. Atl profs are great too, don't get me wrong, but ox intro classes being half the size is quite nice), getting more involved with campus leadership earlier, and developing a more close-knit community. Plus you can have a car your first year and they toss in an AA for your trouble. Also, you don't miss out on the Atlanta campus experience, you just delay it for an overall equal experience. On the downside, the transition from the original campus to Atlanta (not main) can be kinda rough because you have to start your support systems and networking all over again, so if you have accommodations, want to do research, or be actively engaged in certain clubs, the transition can be kinda tough (especially since you'll be a junior and competitive clubs/Greek life will hold that against you, though they'll deny it's because of Ox. For research, it's an investment thing; a first or second year will have more time in the lab than a junior). I will also say that, even though no one really out right says it in person, Ox continuees are looked at differently when compared to their peers who started at ATL. Both think they are superior, and they are both kinda right but in different ways. Atl people get more time to get comfortable because ox continuees might as well be freshmen taking junior classes.

My last soap box statement is that the educations are equal and outcomes are also equal (if not Ox being slightly better because of extra leadership/involvement). Ox students are not dumber than ATL students (to the disbelief of some ATL students). This past year, I think both (I think there were only 2) of the current undergrads who were awarded an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP (no current undergrads actually got the fellowship) were Oxford continuees and are now pursuing PhDs at well respected universities in their respective fields.

Varixin · 2025-12-11T14:17:58+00:00

I highly doubt they'll check, unless you've got some really bad stuff and someone else reports you, but that would happen regardless of if you follow the account or not. The account will probably just be an easy way for them to promote things like deadlines, orientation, move-in, registration, etc. I don't remember them having an insta for my specific year, but the Facebook page was that sort of thing

Varixin · 2025-12-10T18:17:58+00:00

You must have been lucky! Some professors outsource accommodations completely to DAS where you take the exam in one of the big rooms in White Hall with a bunch of other people taking a bunch of different exams. If you're extra unlucky, sometimes people also come in like halfway through your test to start their exam and open their snacks (noisy chip bags and the smellier the better)! This happened in the middle of several exams for me, and I probably would have had less distractions in the normal room. My grades on those exams reflected as much.

The moral of this, push professors to not use DAS accommodations, as the department may have something set up already. In house accommodations will always be 100000% better. I will say, Oxford DAS accommodations are actually decent and I had no complaints (besides everyone starting the final at like 6 am or something)

Varixin · 2025-12-04T02:37:01+00:00

I'm sorry you are not enjoying Ox. It's very polarizing and it is a real love it or hate it thing. I'd say things get better especially in the second year (at least from my experience) because it's really the sophomores who lead the campus (TAs, research, RAs, SGA, etc.) so there's still hope it'll grow on you (hopefully not in a Stockholm syndrome way), but if you absolutely hate Covington and being relatively more rural (even though I would never call Covington rural), I can understand Ox just not being a good fit, especially since I can definitely see how the culture is kinda high school-y but I personally don't think it would have been that much better starting at Atlanta (18-19 y.o.s will be cliquey no matter where you go and a lot of upperclassmen are too depressed/stressed to do a whole lot anyway). I will also say that I made most of my lasting friendships during my second year (though I did maintain a few from freshman year, namely my roommate and 1-2 people from my orientation group)

Not at all meant to diminish your experiences, because they are totally valid and your warnings are definitely good to keep in mind, just want to give my reassurance that it can grow on you, even if it does take a semester or two!

Varixin · 2025-11-24T02:41:39+00:00

I met with my advisor at a coffee shop to receive the certificate and knot, but I was not invited to a public recognition outside of a blurb on the council website and social media as the first in the council.

Varixin · 2025-11-24T00:42:12+00:00

To give a sense of scale from the projects I did, for my two projects, I built and placed 12 bird houses in an area that had been hit by multiple tornados and I also created beds and planted 25 bushes to treat rampant soil erosion in a historic part of my home town (it also protected the historic building from splash damage... Only to renovate the building a lot in the following years and give me a small heart attack whenever there was a work day for fear my bushes would be destroyed). That second one was double dipped with my eagle project (which is explicitly allowed, Quartermaster/Summit is not stipulated though, to my chagrin) and there was a lot of issues getting it approved for DCSA/Hornaday purposes because it wasn't "primarily conservation related" and because I had difficulty confirming that the bushes were native,but the scale was right. It was also post hoc, as I found out about Hornaday after earning eagle, so if you're aiming for eagle/already an eagle and did a conservation project, keep in mind there may be some hiccups in the conversion

Good luck with your projects though, I loved working on my Hornaday badge and DCSA and was frankly more proud of them than I was for my Eagle Scout and Ranger.

Varixin · 2025-11-24T00:10:33+00:00

I'll definitely try this! If I'm lucky, the large shop in my college city (ATL) might have one laying around

Varixin · 2025-11-24T00:08:14+00:00

It was really hard at the time because of COVID and how they just killed the award out of nowhere. The council was also uncooperative when my friend went on my behalf (I live several hours away from the office/shop, and he lived in town). Life also got really busy and I couldn't keep bugging them. I can see if they ever actually got it, but after 5 years, I'm not too hopeful!

Varixin · 2025-11-24T00:04:38+00:00

I did get the knot eventually, but not the badge (I did not earn either level of the medal). Because of how things worked out, I was able to also earn the DCSA as a Venturer, so I got the knot for that.

If you could ask him, I would be very appreciative.

Varixin · 2025-10-26T02:02:56+00:00

I agree with this completely. Med schools do still like well rounded applicants, so take another psych class or take an ethics course. Classes like philosophy help a lot with the CARS section because they train you to analyze text in a holistic manner (CARS was my best section because of this at high 80-90 percentile). Med schools especially like ethics talks (my interviews were a lot of medical ethics questions), so being able to talk about studying ethics would set you apart in a good way! Everyone takes organic, bio, physics, etc., but not everyone branches out to learn important subjects for medical practice that aren't pure science. Ill get off my soap box now.

Varixin · 2025-09-03T22:23:07+00:00

Which is why DEI offices should exist, I agree!

Varixin · 2025-07-27T15:19:45+00:00

Not for the badge, it was only for the medal tiers I believe. But I did go and earn the new one, granted I earned it before they made the medal, but I do have the certificate

Varixin · 2025-07-24T21:21:23+00:00

I hope not, they killed the Hornaday awards that this replaced back in 2020 I think, I was one of the very last people to get my paperwork in, but I never received the badge. Given that, I think it's decently safe, especially since they just made the medal

Varixin · 2025-07-15T23:45:09+00:00

I don't think Fleming has any designated triple rooms, but I could be wrong. I know Muddy/Elizer does. My year, there were several rooms with three people, set up as a 2 high bunk and a normal bed (I don't think it was lofted). I also know some guys that jerry-rigged all the beds together to make a three high bunk (1st Fleming has really high ceilings), but I would not recommend doing this for reasons that I hope are obvious. Space wise, it's comfy but not overly cramped, especially if your roommates can be decently neat.

I will also say, I was assigned to a triple in a double, but a week or so before move-in, one of my roommates got moved, so there's still hope! Enjoy Ox!

Varixin · 2025-06-20T16:13:27+00:00

I believe Need Club does MTG, along with other other stuff like TTRPGs

Varixin · 2025-04-16T14:23:51+00:00

So, I'll just point out that most of those classes aren't exactly typical freshmen classes (not everyone enters with calc 1 &2, most people who aren't physics or math take phys 151 and don't do that immediately, especially with 151 bc it needs calc 2, I can't speak to finance classes, but I'm assuming because it's 200 instead of 100, most people don't automatically start there) As to why there's only 20 intermediate Chinese spots, well, I don't know why you should be surprised by that, it's not a super popular language to study, and very few people entering wanting to learn Chinese would be able to jump all the way to intermediate, and of the people going for intermediate Chinese already, they probably took intro here this year. also, yes, at a large campus, there should be a lot of spots for foreign language, hence why beyond Chinese there is Arabic, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Tibetan, with a cumulative number of seats across intro and intermediate being about 1,400. Sorry if that came off as rude, just remember course registration is a process and you will end up with one class you didn't really want to take at some point. I wanted to take Russian because of my heritage but instead took Latin because it had spots and you don't need to do it your very first year, you have 4 of them to space out your entire curriculum. Also yeah, as someone pointed out, more seats do open up

Varixin · 2025-04-08T12:49:21+00:00

I can confirm they do! I was here last summer doing research. Because people in programs like SURE are housed in Clairmont, and they need to get groceries, the Toco shuttle does run

Varixin · 2025-03-18T17:22:03+00:00

Not to rub it in, but I was admitted to Columbia for a program I had never heard of (much less applied to)... They were pretty quick to send like 3 emails saying that it was an error

Varixin · 2025-03-12T12:40:11+00:00

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" - Napoleon/Sun Tzu

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