should oos go to ole miss

The State of Mississippi is undergoing an impressive educational metamorphosis preparing the state’s workforce for future needs. Ole Miss’s contributions to this are notable and convinced us to give Ole Miss a chance. The greek life could be viewed as a benefit to the university if the put-downs between sororities could be negated to create a sisterhood to held the entire campus and state. It is quite possibly older alumni or unhappy individuals who are not on board with the changing educational aspirations of the State drag the reputation of the individual Houses down on this site. Oxford is a gorgeous town and the few blemishes of alumni who party with coeds and vomit on this site drags all of us down. I admire those who impart information to those who seek it in a kind non-malicious manner. It shows who has self-condidence.

Well if 43% percent of the Ole Miss population is OOS students it is difficult to believe that every single one of them is unhappy. And considering that number seems to be growing I would say that at least some of them actually like it here. Some people just aren't cut out for college and some people really do need to stay closer to home. But if you are willing to come here and meet people you should be fine. However as far as the sororities go if you are OOS/OOR the middle tier sororitys are the ones you want to aim for. Those are the upper tier for the OOS/OOR girls, and honestly the OOS girls in the sororitys have as good or better resumes that the in-state upper tier sororitys.

Did someone seriously pay to have my previous post removed, lol!!! You'll be spending a lot of $$$ because I will def be re-posting every time. Ridiculous!

hottytoddy.com /2017/03/04/state-state-enrollment-ole-miss/

Stats regarding Percent of Student Population:

57.6% MS
6.4% TX
6.0% GA
6.0% TN
24.0% Other

"Non-Mississippi residents enrolled at Ole Miss come from all 50 states as well as 90 different countries."

“This year we welcomed the largest freshman class in our history. Our total enrollment for this year hit a record 24,250. Enrollment at Ole Miss has grown by 38% in the last decade and 14% in the last five years,” said an admissions counselor for the university.

Just out...

news.olemiss.edu /um-enrolls-23780-students-fall-semester/

"This year’s freshman class of 3,697 students includes a greater percentage of Mississippi residents, 45.4 percent – a 2.5 percent increase over last year. It also has a higher percentage of minorities, 21.2 percent, than last year’s entering class.

Incoming freshmen posted an average ACT score of 25.04. The class’ average high school GPA of 3.59, up from last year’s 3.57, is a university record.

This year’s first-time students include 85 class valedictorians, 69 salutatorians, 89 student body presidents, 107 Eagle Scouts and 20 Girl Scouts who achieved the Gold Award, the organization’s highest youth honor.

Though the university receives an impressive number of nonresident applications, 12,399 for the fall semester alone, the majority of Ole Miss students, 60.2 percent, are from Mississippi, including students from all the state’s 82 counties."

Where do you get that 7% of undergrads are international? Off the top of your head? Notice the last few freshman classes are less than 50% Miss residents but the overall number of undergrads is closer to 60% in-state. This tells me that in state kids take 5-7 years to graduate, while the smarter our of state students(which they are much smarter) graduate on time or a semester late.
Also directly from the FAQ of the SMB HC states that HC students participating in Greek life is 52% which is much higher than the overall university rate. Another wrong theory of yours.
Bottom line is your stats are wrong. They are pulled out of a hat.
Remember without oos students, the average ACT wouldn't be 25 and rising. It would be 20 and sinking.

There are OOS/OOR girls who come to OM and love it and there are those who don't. I think it comes down to the following:

1) There are girls who get homesick and transfer. Nothing to do with OM, everything to do with not realizing how much they'd miss being close to home.

2) Girls who think OM will be easy and fun all the time - tailgating in the Grove, getting into the sorority of their dreams, easily making friends. Everything takes work here, just like at any school. And it can be great if you're willing to put in the effort.

3) Girls who are unprepared for rush and have no connections here. OM rush is one of the toughest in the country - it's even hard for girls who are connected. If you have no connections, be prepared to likely be dropped by the top tier immediately and perhaps some of the middle tier. I've seen girls who were "tops" at everything in high school, so when they got dropped, they were pretty shocked.

Here's the good news: every sorority has great girls so if you go through the entire week, give every house a shot, you can wind up somewhere great. But it's up to you to do that - there are girls who drop out when they were released from the houses they wanted (or thought they wanted) and girls who don't accept a bid because they think they're too good for that house. Don't be that girl!

It comes down to expectations - what is it about OM that makes you want to be here? Is it your major, Greek life, the traditional experience found at an SEC school? I'd think about those things and see how the reality of life here matches. I wish you luck.

No, no, no!!!! Ole Miss is not nice to OS people. Any why, I have not clue.? Ms is last in everything.

look at you struggling mightily to parse and analyze the statistics. lol. must be from in-state. 😂

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.

I am oos but southern and came because I loved Ole Miss. I got in the Honor's College with $26k in merit aid/academic scholarships per year. I could have gone to numerous other more prestigious schools, but chose Ole Miss.

There are plenty of others just like me that didn't come here out of desperation. I am very happy with my upper mid tier sorority. Some folks are just bitter/unhappy and like everyone else to be the same.

Thank God for out of state students.