re: Miss State = the Harvard of Mississippi?

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Ole Miss has higher admissions requirements for out of state students.
And recruits Texas and Georgia heavily since really good students “can’t get into the state school” in those states.

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Ole Miss is doing a lot of recruiting in Louisiana as well, offering huge tuition breaks. They are getting a lot of the second-tier Louisiana kids.

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All this just shows is that acceptance rate is not the best way to judge academic prestige.

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Yeah. I had to interview some kids from Rust and Tougaloo. Let's just say, they didn’t do well.

Also, USM has a great polymer science program.

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lol whatever you say. Lots of wealthy uptown New Orleans families send their kids to Ole Miss. Had several in my fraternity.

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Your statement doesn't contradict mine. In the past few years, Ole Miss has really ramped up its recruiting of students in Louisiana. It is cheaper for a lot of kids to go to Ole Miss than to go to LSU, and Ole Miss admits everyone.

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At one time Millsaps was regarded as the best college in the tri-state areas of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. I haven’t heard much about them recently, but at one time it was expensive to go there hard to get into and had roughly 800 students.

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Academically I think it’s still probably a good school. A lot of schools like them (small liberal arts private schools) are struggling.

The admission percentages are posted above in this thread.

99% of applicants get into Ole Miss. They are letting in basically anyone who applies. Not sure what your argument is.

Who cares?!

At Ole Miss, if the check clears the bank you get a degree.

Ole Miss is living off of an almost inexhaustible supply of C students from the DFW area.

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Let them start 4-0 and you’d think they had the returning superbowl champions as their team.

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Grinded!!!

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Also have several freshman weed out courses that do the trick that admissions isn’t able to.

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That's something that Ole Miss does that State does not do a good job at, which affects graduation rate.

For example, Freshman Biology at Ole Miss intentionally drops the number of pre-med majors significantly.

The Bagley College of Engineering does it on the front end, requiring a 23+ (still low) to receive admission as a freshman. If you go in with a lower ACT score, you have to have a higher GPA in Calculus and Chemistry to get into the Engineering school. Most just accept their admission denial and go to JUCO.

Most denials at both schools are international students, and there are more internationals looking at Engineering schools than strong medical/law/business school.

That is the difference between State's 77% admission rate and Ole Miss' 98%. Both are way too high and the Ayers case needs to be revisited.

Considering that there is a 10 ACT at Ole Miss and an 11 ACT at Mississippi State right now (see latest IHL report), I imagine that very few if any students from a Mississippi high school are denied admission outright.