i love ole miss

welcome.

first thing first, do you have the grades? sorry, but you have very poor grammar.

second, your "aunts" are useless. legacy here means your mom went here, and to a lesser extent a sister/grandma. your aunt/cousin doesn't mean anything here.

third, connections help, but it's 80% legacy, 20% connections IMO. connections help very little.

fourth, if you are trying to get into any house, you won't have any problems. Most everyone gets in. As for the few that don't, there is a reason...either they did something to get themselves back listed or they just didn't care (dress sloppy, roll eyes during convo, etc.).

fifth, be realistic. you'll end up in a bottom tier. if lucky, a mid tier.\n\n\n\n\nThe biggest question is...should you even come here? Some out of state girls are happy here, but the majority aren't. Yes, game days are great and the people are nice during your visit, but once you come here you'll find out they will exclude you or look down on you.\n\n\n\n\n

To state that most oos girls are unhappy is a complete and total lie.
You have zero class or common sense. Quit being the grammar nazi on a silly message board where most probably use their phones to type.

OOS students make up 40% if not more of the students here. Soon It will be 50 % OOS. Don’t let these old biddies scare you. They can see the writing on the wall and are trying to scare away OOS students.Come to Ole Miss you will find you have more in common than not. It’s obvious your family loved it here and so will you.

I’m very far OOS and just transferred out for reasons that the first response said. If you are far OOS with no connections and a top house is important to you, then this isn’t the right place for you.

If you have good grades (houses do/can cut on grades), get your recs in, show interest in every house, etc.- you will have a chance to find a home. Plenty of OOS girls find a place they love, but you have to put the effort in.

From my experience I don't think family connections really matter anymore unless someone knows actives in a house and those girls look out for you or if you have a relative who's in the chapter now. Even legacies don't count like they used to (aunts and cousins who were in sororities do not make you a legacy as some people think). And this doesn't mean you won't have a shot at a house you love - you will. Connections do matter for the top tier houses, with rare exceptions. The good news is that there are great girls in every house so if you don't know anyone in the top tier, don't worry, all the houses here have a lot to offer.

You have family from here, they loved Ole Miss, there's no reason why you might not love it. You'll never know if you don't come here and if you wind up not loving it, then you'll find somewhere else. Sometimes OOS girls don't like it (for many reasons, including being homesick which has nothing to do with OM), but then sometimes Mississippi students don't like it - that's life!