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To the OP, why are you considering Ole Miss if you're from OOS? Mississippi isn't exactly the best place to go to college, as we continue to fall short in academic rigor and prestige. Having an Ole Miss or MS degree on your resume is hardly a badge of honor once you leave the state. The truth hurts, but let's be honest with ourselves here. You should be aware that the vast majority of OOS students come here because they either couldn't go anywhere else and Ole Miss was their fall back school, or because of the social atmosphere on campus (or both). So yeah, once the reality sets in a lot of OOS folks become disgruntled and don't have the best time especially since the in-state and in-region kids are so tight knit and tend to be closed-off to outsiders. The irony is that even though locals look down their noses as OOS students, the non-Mississippians are the ones who are raising the academic standards and bringing in much needed OOS money to improve our school. Some in-state students and parents may loathe outsiders like you for coming in and wrecking the grading curve or making recruitment more competitive (that's a myth, btw) but I will be the first to admit that we need more out of state folks like you at Ole Miss. We aren't getting it done ourselves and the whole in-state vs. out of state thing just reinforces stereotypes of deep Southern close mindedness and inbreeding. I hope more people will welcome OOS students as well.