re: Ole Miss is the Harvard of Northern Mississippi.

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Uga Alum

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Be gone, welcher!

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Wearing a sport coat doesn't mean you're in a "elite social club". You're reading into things that aren't accurate.

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I think it is kind of cool in a way. Back when Ole Miss and Oxford were tiny, tiny... they developed that southern gentility thing.

You really couldn't go there if you weren't wealthy because you couldn't be part time or a commuter. There were no jobs to be had to work your way through school in a tiny town. There weren't student loans to the extent there were today. So it kind of developed as a rich kid's school/country club kind of place.

While all southern schools have elements of that. Basically that was all Ole Miss was back in the day... and while it is no longer completely that way... the tradition kind of stuck.

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Been there many times, and I'm quite aware of the faux-elitism you can find on campus with its affluent families. What I'm talking about is the tacky way certain people act like they're superior to others because of these bullshite college rankings. It's so distasteful.

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I see what you are complaining about... but I just can't take it seriously from them. After all... It's just Mississippi. In Oklahoma, we are used to Texans... who really take "being better than" you to heart.

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I could care less

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Why do you care so much?

That give a statistics on Valdosta state. The school you flunked out of.

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BR seems to have a significantly high population of AA’s than Oxford.

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Hmmm. Larger urban area appears to have have more black people than small rural college town. That is mind blowing analysis.

That said, LSU does have the largest black population of students on campus. However, both MS schools are also among only 5 schools with double digit black populations.



Note: Also, AU seems a bit of an outlier with 1 in 5 black AU students being student athletes vs traditional students.

KY seems most representative of state population with a high percentage of that population attending as traditional athletes.

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Be gone, welcher!

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what’s the story behind op welching?

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Be gone, welcher!
what’s the story behind op welching?

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During the Ole Miss/Texas game, "This is my last post". Some theorize that he laid a bunch of money (to him $10 and up) on Ole Miss and was losing. But, anyway, he's arrogant prick and I just don't like him. My theory is that he hates OM because some OM guy took his girl and his lunch money.

You clearly don’t know what an acceptance rate is.