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Git involved with the writing center, library tutoring center and become familiar with all the student resources available on campus as early as you can. I started going to UCA in 2014 and will soon graduate with above 3.0+ GPA in Computer Science.One of the most important things to do to be successful is; visit your professor office hours and get involved in timely leadership on campus. Visit career services and get familiar with employment opportunities early. Become familiar with employers and find a great career services advisor. This will help when its time to do an internship, apprenticeship, work-study, REU position, etc. They will help you get the experience you need to obtain the career you want.More than anything make time to have collegiate fun; but don’t git wild. Don’t live in your dorm room, get out and meet people!

The most famous recording of “The Battle of New Orleans” was made by Johnny Horton in 1959; it went on to be a #1 hit on the Billboard 200 charts. However, he didn’t write the song, nor was he the first to record it.The song was written by the most famous alumnus of the place where I work, the University of Central Arkansas: James Corbett Morris—better known by his stage name Jimmy Driftwood, which he made his legal name in the 1950s. Born in the small Ozark town of Timbo, Arkansas, he learned to play folk music from his father on a guitar made from a fencepost, an old bed headboard, and other pieces of scrap, which he played all his life. He eventually got an education degree from UCA when it was still called Arkansas State Teachers’ College, and he became a high school teacher and principal in the tiny Ozark town of Snowball, Arkansas. He wrote “The Battle of New Orleans” in 1936 to help his students learn history, basing the melody on a traditional American fiddle tune.In 1957, Driftwood caught the ear of Nashville executives, and he recorded an album of folk songs, mostly his own compositions. This included “The Battle of New Orleans.” Here’s his original recording, which by the standards of the day could not be played on radio because it included the taboo words “damn” and “hell.”The album didn’t sell especially well, but in 1959, Johnny Horton recorded a shorter version of the song, rewritten to avoid the taboo words. That’s the one that reached the top of the charts.Driftwood wrote over six thousand songs in his career, and several became country music standards, including “Tennessee Stud”. Driftwood went on to a performing career in his own right—he was a member of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville for a long time—and in his later years advocated for preserving the environment and the folk culture of the Arkansas Ozarks, helping to preserve the Buffalo National River, and found the Ozark Folk Center State Park and the Arkansas Folk Festival.See also: Jimmy Driftwood (1907-1998) - Encyclopedia of Arkansas

Their admissions systems are difficult to compare, but these are some factors you can consider.Acceptance RatesThe Common App allows everyone to apply to as many colleges as they want, so Stanford got 42,167 applicants and accepted 2,138 (5.07%) for the Class of 2018. As acceptance rates get lower, worrying students apply to even more universities, creating positive feedback loop where acceptance rates keep getting lower and lower while each accepted class is essentially the same (a lower acceptance rate for the Class of 2018 doesn't necessarily mean that it has better students than the Class of 2017). If you assess acceptance difficulty by acceptance rate, Stanford is definitely harder, being the most selective US college according to US News.Meanwhile, UCAS only allows students to apply to 5 universities and does not allow you to apply to both Oxford and Cambridge, you need to choose one, so the number of people applying to Oxford is limited by its own system. In addition, many UK universities have minimum requirements for applications to be considered. Oxford's minimum requirements vary by course and the applicant's education system, but for students in the American system (like me) I believe its at least 5 in three APs and 700 in each SAT section. While a ton of people who don't meet Oxford's requirements apply to places like Harvard or Stanford "just in case they get in," they don't bother writing their personal statement and doing additional tests for Oxford if they won't even consider them. So, Oxford had 17,216 applicants for 2013 entry and accepted 3,198, making its overall acceptance rate 18.6%.Entry RequirementsAs I mentioned, Oxford has minimum requirements for applicants. These depend on the course (major) you are applying to. Some are subject specific (5 in Calculus or A* in Maths) and some aren't (2 additional 5s in AP exams). Entry requirements are a good case against using acceptance rates as a way to assess difficulty. Classics, one of the courses with the highest acceptance rates (44%), requires students to know Ancient Greek or Latin (EDIT: knowing Greek or Latin isn't a requirement, see comments). It's a really high acceptance rate, but the quality of applicants is much higher. Oxford also uses its own subject-specific standardized tests in addition to the usual ones. I had to take one called the Thinking Skills Assessment, which felt like a harder SAT, but these test vary from very quantitative ones to Latin translation tests. In terms of application requirements, I would say Oxford is more difficult than Stanford.Stanford doesn't have minimum requirements for applicants but they probably have unofficial ones. Most accepted students at Stanford will have similar scores than those at Oxford, but there's always a minority that wouldn't have been considered at Oxford.Application ProcessBesides the testing, Stanford and Oxford weigh parts of their admissions processes differently. Stanford gives a lot of importance to the Common App essay and the Stanford supplement, which is longer than those of other colleges. These essays are mostly about your personality and experiences. Most people tend to agree that for US colleges, essays are what essentially gets you in. There are thousands of great applicants, so what truly convinces an admission officer to accept you are the essays. Extracurriculars are also very important, but they're only decisive when they're used for essays (writing them out in the Common App form isn't enough). Stanford has Alumni interviews, which also focus on your personality and aren't a decisive part of the application either.Oxford has a similar application process but makes the final decisions based on the interviews. Grades, recommendations, the personal statement and extracurriculars (people mention them in their personal statements), are all crucial to get invited to an interview. Most people go to Oxford to get interviewed by tutors, but it's possible to do it through Skype. Interviews are hard. They're academic, not about your personality. Interviews are basically made to pick the smartest and eliminate anyone who looks good on paper but isn't truly a good applicant. Tutors also want to see how mature and determined you are to study your course.So the tipping point of the application process in Oxford is to be focused and smart, while at Stanford it is to have a good personality and be well rounded. (At both universities accepted students tend to be focused, smart, have good personalities and be well rounded, but I'm just stating out the way they are selected--I don't mean to say that Stanford doesn't care about intelligence, they do very much). Each admissions system is tailored to its academic system. Students at Oxford study one course, while students at Stanford take classes in many subjects.Something important to consider is that a growing number of applicants around the world are hiring people to write their essays/personal statements, so I would say that the interview system at Oxford makes its application process more difficult, while Stanford's process could be cheated. I wish this weren't true (I spent countless hours writing, editing, stressing over essays), but I've heard of a couple of people that have bought essays and got into Ivies. There are also very expensive college counselors that edit essays extensively.Applicant typeAnother factor to consider is the type of student that applies to each university. Stanford is located in Silicon Valley, the center of the tech world. A lot of its applicants want to study STEM subject and become entrepreneurs or work in tech companies. Oxford is more focused on humanities and has been a center of the intellectual world for centuries.Stanford tends to look for potential entrepreneurs, while Oxford tends to look for potential academics. (That is, of course, a generalization).ConclusionI'm sorry if this isn't the answer you're looking for, but you can't effectively compare the application systems of Oxford and Stanford. Stanford's acceptance rate is lower, but Oxford's application system is harder to cheat and has minimum requirements. I hope all this information is useful for you to determine which university is "easier" to get into in a more specific scenario.*Not everything I've said is official information you could find on university websites, but it's what I've gathered after having gone through college applications