Jackson area HS grads college choice

[Duke Humphrey]

This was topic in a thread few weeks ago, but MSU Twitter just sent out link to this article in Northside Sun. OM and MSU tied at Prep, OM got most from JA, while MSU got most from SA, St Joe’s, MRA, MC and Germantown.

http://bit.ly/2IIczP1

 

[JoMo MoJo]

We’ll take that. JA is a bunch of pu$$ies.

 

[Shamoan]

Prep not as exaggerated as some said, but 50-50 is still a big swing.

 

[Duke Humphrey]

First year in last 2-3 MSU hasn’t had the most

Prep not as exaggerated as some said, but 50-50 is still a big swing.

Hate to see us dip this year, but our gains at Prep haven’t set well.

 

[Todd4State]

Why are so many Madison Central students going to Northwest Mississippi Community College? Is Senatobia a happening place all of a sudden?

 

[Forrest4Moore]

Why are so many Madison Central students going to Northwest Mississippi Community College? Is Senatobia a happening place all of a sudden?

Northwest and EMCC are becoming popular with kids going the JUCO route but wanting to live in Oxford or Starkville, respectively. Lots are renting in those cities and just commuting to Senatobia or the Mayhew campus for EMCC and they, in turn, get some semblance of the 4-year school party scene.

 

[Shmuley]

^^^ This. A cousin of mine has a kid that's a freshman at State. The kid lives in an apartment in vegas with three other kids. All are from the same high school graduating class. The other three roomies commute to Scooba Tech.

 

[8dog]

Because people were talking about prior years that were fact

 

[tcdog70]

^^^ This. A cousin of mine has a kid that's a freshman at State. The kid lives in an apartment in vegas with three other kids. All are from the same high school graduating class. The other three roomies commute to Scooba Tech.

there is a branch of Scooba Tech at Mayhew--

 

[stateu1]

Why are so many Madison Central students going to Northwest Mississippi Community College? Is Senatobia a happening place all of a sudden?

Tate is no longer a dry county**

 

[stateu1]

^^^ This. A cousin of mine has a kid that's a freshman at State. The kid lives in an apartment in vegas with three other kids. All are from the same high school graduating class. The other three roomies commute to Scooba Tech.

I thought all Freshmens had to live on campus?

 

[msstatelp1]

Why are so many Madison Central students going to Northwest Mississippi Community College? Is Senatobia a happening place all of a sudden?

Northwest has a good Nursing program too.

 

[Shmuley]

Bogus hardship exception. It worked.

 

[johnson86-1]

^^^ This. A cousin of mine has a kid that's a freshman at State. The kid lives in an apartment in vegas with three other kids. All are from the same high school graduating class. The other three roomies commute to Scooba Tech.

This seems like a bad decision all around. If a kids at JUCO because of money, then it seems like commuting from home would be the better option. If a kids at JUCO because he's not academically prepared, camping out in Starkville or Oxford doesn't seem like the best idea. If they're attending JUCO for sports, I woudl assume they have to live at the dorms? I guess it will make the transition to MSU or Ole Miss easier when the time comes.

Even for the the kid already attending MSU, seems like living off campus with three guys not at MSU is going to make it less likely that he's going to really settle in. I guess there's something to be said for a sort of social safety net of living with friends from high school, but not sure it's a good trade-off if it limits how much time he spends with other students his freshman year when a lot of people are forming the friendships that they carry with them through school and beyond.

 

[Shmuley]

By-product of a tiny, insular, cocooned, relatively homogenized private high school environment. It is what it is.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Northwest also has a campus in Oxford.

 

[InTheIttaBenaHotSun]

I'd say the oddest choice from the article is the Murrah grad attending Oberlin College.

Didn't see this coming out of the JPS system.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

A part of me wouldn't have minded that, I think. A lot of my fellow graduates of the private school I went to attended JCJC first. I went to MSU-- and in retrospect I probably wouldn't have minded going to Jones first. MSU was overwhelming at first for this alum of a now-defunct academy.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Power APAC.

 

[TheStateUofMS]

Totally forgot about the Northside Sun. The most superficial publication I've ever come across. I'm sure there's one in every town in the South though.

 

[Shmuley]

Did you go to Heidelberg?

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Yes.

 

[patdog]

Agree. This is just a way for the kids to go away and party and not have to worry about the higher academic load at MSU or UM. I think most kids should stay at home and commute to JUCO for a summer, fall, spring, and summer after HS and then go on to a 4-year school with 1-1/2 years under their belt. But if the kids moving off, they need to be at the university and not JUCO.

 

[patdog]

You take that back about the Northside Sun. Where the hell else am I going to get my fix of seeing all the pictures of socialites attending parties?

 

[Go Budaw]

there is a branch of Scooba Tech at Mayhew--

Correct. There is also a branch of NWCC in Oxford. No 18 or 19 year old is capable of commuting 1.5 hours for 5 days a week. That’s a sure fire way to fail out of school even if it’s JUCO.

 

[mstateglfr]

I'd say the oddest choice from the article is the Murrah grad attending Oberlin College.

Didn't see this coming out of the JPS system.

One of the Murrah students is going to Wash U.
Thats right up there for surprise and impressed.



Spesking if impressed, St Andrews Episcopal has an impressive list.
3 going to Tulane
3 going to Wash U
2 going to Pepperdine
1 to Brown, 1 to Dartmouth, 1 to Harvard, 1 to MIT, 1 to The New School, and 1 to UVA.

Oh, Uof Illinois too!

Damn.

 

[johnson86-1]

Totally forgot about the Northside Sun. The most superficial publication I've ever come across. I'm sure there's one in every town in the South though.

I think those publications make more money than the actual newspapers now.

 

[SedLexDuraLex]

One of the Murrah students is going to Wash U.
Thats right up there for surprise and impressed.



Spesking if impressed, St Andrews Episcopal has an impressive list.
3 going to Tulane
3 going to Wash U
2 going to Pepperdine
1 to Brown, 1 to Dartmouth, 1 to Harvard, 1 to MIT, 1 to The New School, and 1 to UVA.

Oh, Uof Illinois too!

Damn.

That's well below average for St. Andrew's. I taught there for years and they routinely put numerous kids into the very best colleges. Most years, Tulane is all but safety school.

 

[5049]

Murrah is the only JPS with half a prayer of ever being decent

 

[Shamoan]

someone in the thread said it was 80-20 at prep. Dont think that was near accurate as fact at any point in time