Introduction
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Occidental College
Information Summary
| Overall Score (about) | 96.3 |
| Total Cost On-Campus Attendance | $74,132 |
| Admission Success rate | N/A |
| ACT / SAT 75%ile scores | 32 / 1450 |
| Student Ratio Students-to-Faculty | 10 : 1 |
| Retention (full-time / part-time) | 90% / N/A |
| Enrollment Total (all students) | 1,930 |
Academics
Academic work at Occidental is consistently challenging, but not in a dry and overly cerebral way. Students are encouraged to integrate life experience into intellectual conversation and to apply academic ideas toward understanding and navigating our complex and interconnected world. The broad diversity of the student body is of great service in this regard, and all are encouraged to engage the alternate worldviews of their peers
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Admissions
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Financial Aid
The price tag of an Occidental education can be intimidating, but keep in mind that over seventy percent of students receive some form of financial aid, which renders the cost comparable to those of public institutions. Oxy is dedicated to maintaining a socioeconomically diverse student body, and financial difficulties should not keep anybody from applying. Students hail from a smorgasbord of backgrounds, and those arriving via public high schools actually outnumber their prep school peers. Applicants are automatically considered for a variety of merit-based scholarships, from the Margaret Bundy Scott scholarship ($20,000 annually) to the Honors Scholarship ($5,000 annually). Merit scholarships are highly competitive and are awarded to students who have demonstrated outstanding academic and extracurricular achievement. Need-based assistance comes in the form of grants, work-study, and student loans. It
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Students
Living in Los Angeles is inextricably part of the Occidental experience, and even the most extroverted students find that by graduation they
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Traditions
Students at Occidental learn quickly that when your birthday rolls around, it
Alumni
Describing Occidental alums is no easy task; just as the school seeks to enroll a rich diversity of students, so too do graduates head off to follow their bliss in every conceivable direction. While generalizations in this realm tend to be inexact, it is safe to say that most students leave Oxy with a keen sense of the world
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