The thing about it is that part of the Ayer’s settlement is that the HBCUs had to increase their white enrollment to a certain level. JSU even started a campus in Madison to try to hit those levels and it didn’t work.
This is what I remember. And the enrollment criteria was incredibly low. There would seem to be an endpoint to the enrollment criteria somewhere. In my opinion the Governor or the IHL should be going back to court to have that ended. Take it to the Supreme Court if you have to. Tell us why Mississippi can't run its universities like every other State. I really think the courts especially this USSC would terminate the enrollment criteria.
Sleep with or screw? Very big difference because he screwed the entire fanbase.
I was kinda that guy in high school. My GPA was a little higher than 1.9 , I think I finished with a 2.8. Made a 28 on my ACT the first time, it would have been over 30 but that pesky English portion pulled it down. All my teachers thought that I had cheated so they encouraged me to take it again. I made a 30 the second time. My high school counselor was like “WTF dude”, you’re a mid level slacker. I just smiled at her and walked out.
Future boosters. You are assuming we start to lose natives if we took in more out of staters.Why? For as much **** as everyone out of state talks about us I’ll gladly take the natives over the foreigners.
My son got his OOS waived b/c of his GPA. For OOS, you can’t get much more than half off and your standardized test score has to be really high. I WISH they’d offer the legacy discount, but that only applies if you don’t have all your OOS waived already. I cannot complain at all with what we were offered, but he was NHS, high GPA and had an overall impressive resume.
Saw on Facebook from a local realtor -family from Connecticut had twin daughters. They are attending Ole Miss this fall and parents moved to Madison.
With where they are located, the bar can’t be very high, or they’d have no students.
They must not have realized that “Old South Charm” is just code for being an insufferable douche.
Nah I’m not assuming just tired of the no shoes ********, etc from outsiders. **** them, leave us alone and Mississippi will be perfectly fine without.
For me, it wasn’t so much being a slacker as it was being at a small academy where most of the classes were not challenging, and that main one that was was an Advanced Biology class I took as a sophomore with three seniors…
there are a bunch of outsiders realizing they’ve been lied to about mississippi. Madison, Ocean Springs are getting a ton of them.
My oldest had 35 ACT & is a legacy, State was her 1st choice, but zero OOS forgiveness. Got a better deal at TN Tech.
With 4.1+ GPA, 31+ covers all of OOS and a little more. 34+ leaves you with ~$4,000 tuition and meal plan to cover, but freshman year room is included in the scholarship.
We love Birmingham, Huntsville, Memphis and Houston. Other places not so much.
Wat.
There is no way a 35 ACT doesn’t get a full ride. Send me your contact details and I’ll get someone at State to contact you.
There are tons of those type idiots out there. My only explanation is they like being "Rebels", in the worst connotation of that word.
I saw a YouTuber went to Madison to just understand the city. He found a guy from Arizona who moved there because of the prices and he wanted to live on the water. He just found it online.
It's not all student housing though. Seems like a lot of SF housing, at least down south lamar.
Don't worry, the thread quickly turned somehow to how bad we are at recruiting students. So the olemiss lovers can relax.
Yeah, something's not right here. With those stats, assuming a high GPA, she should have been offered a full ride or very close. Not saying Tennessee Tech wouldn't have been a better deal, but zero OOS forgiveness isn't right.
Fact:
and the Oxford real estate bubble may be about to bust.
Is Ole Miss Really Growing as Fast as the Headlines Say?
Ole Miss set another enrollment record, but the Oxford numbers tell a different story, one that matters for Oxford real estate and student housing.www.cissellmanagement.com
Highlights
The record 28,405 is not the Oxford number
Start with the number itself. This past fall the university announced 28,405 students, a state record. That number is real, but it counts seven campuses, and one of them is the Medical Center two and a half hours away in Jackson, which by itself is 3,183 students, residents and fellows.
Ole Miss enrollment: real growth, but mostly recovery
People tend to paint Ole Miss and Oxford as if they're an anomaly with only an upward trajectory. But that's not the case. The Oxford campus hit a record high with about 20,500 students in 2016. Then it fell, over four years, to about 18,400 in 2020, a loss of roughly 2,100 students. It did not climb back to its 2016 level until 2023.
Almost all the Ole Miss enrollment growth is out-of-state
When you look at where the new students came from, it is striking. On the Oxford campus, in-state enrollment has not grown at all. It has gone backward, from about 11,000 Mississippi students in 2016 to about 10,400 now. Every bit of the growth is out-of-state students, who went from about 9,400 to about 14,700, and they now make up nearly 59 percent of the Oxford campus.
In March of last year, Chancellor Boyce stood up in front of a student government meeting and said the freshman class was exploding, that applications were over 40,000, and that Ole Miss would land somewhere around 6,300 to 6,500 freshmen. He said it plainly enough that the student paper printed the quote. The class that actually showed up that fall was 5,464.
What it means for Oxford real estate and student housing
Now put that next to what is going up around town. These are my own working numbers, and they fall into three buckets. At the end of 2025 there were about 7,000 beds already under construction in the city, with dirt moving on them. Then there is the university itself, which has two new on-campus housing projects in the works with Greystar that together add about 2,800 beds, the first about 1,300 beds on the old Kincannon site due by fall 2027, and the second about 1,500 beds near the law school due by the summer of 2028. On top of that, roughly 2,200 more beds have been approved. Add the three together and you are looking at somewhere around 12,000 potential new beds by fall 2028.
Even on a very good run for the university, the kind where they land the biggest freshman classes they have ever had and hold them, you are talking about a few thousand more students by 2028.
Except those rankings are BS just like the OM numbers. Anybody can create a ranking these days. Hell, there's about 100 of them now. Hell, there's more State grads in medical school at UMMC than OM grads.
This is the problem with State though. You need to have someone on the inside to do what should be standard. My son's a sophomore now, and was aggressively pursuing scholarships to add to what he had going in as a Freshman. You'd be amazed how little assistance he received from the School of Business, the general financial aid office, and his advisors. Eventually, he connected with a specific professor who was able to get him to the "right" person. Total BS.
All of this housing that Xeno listed are SF homes. The retirement movers are still coming from all around the region and that will continue unabated for a while. 2nd home people are a real thing, but I don't think that will entirely hollow out that market.
If there's anything about these student recrootin threads, it's that they are always inconsistent and there's always a bunch of bragging on their own kids.
I'm sure there are a lot of SF homes being built - but not 12,000. Maybe I'm misreading it, but that 12,000 number he was agreeing with was the "beds" count that 615 listed in the original post. Beds = students in most cases, not second homes or single family homes.
