Official fall enrollment is 21,622

[Duke Humphrey]

MSU's largest enrollment and freshmen class ever

http://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/art...-largest-freshman-class/#.V9MatFw-cAs.twitter

 

[TaleofTwoDogs]

Is this figure for the main campus only or total enrollment in the system.

 

[Duke Humphrey]

All MSU students, so inclusive of Meridian, etc

Is this figure for the main campus only or total enrollment in the system.

Nm

 

[WayboDawg]

When I enrolled in Fall of 2007, State set the new enrollment record that year as well (somewhere around 18k I think). I'll be honest.... A good number of the students I saw in class had no business being enrolled at a community college much less a 4 year institution. I'm talking about students that if they showed up to class on time once a week without reeking of weed at 9 am it was an accomplishment. Reading over some of their work for group projects was like reading a document written by someone who knew about 20 words worth of English. That's why I take these enrollment numbers with a grain of salt, not everyone belongs in college.

 

[RocketDawg]

When I enrolled in Fall of 2007, State set the new enrollment record that year as well (somewhere around 18k I think). I'll be honest.... A good number of the students I saw in class had no business being enrolled at a community college much less a 4 year institution. I'm talking about students that if they showed up to class on time once a week without reeking of weed at 9 am it was an accomplishment. Reading over some of their work for group projects was like reading a document written by someone who knew about 20 words worth of English. That's why I take these enrollment numbers with a grain of salt, not everyone belongs in college.

And your observations are reflective of a composite ACT average of 24. We (the University) need to be more selective, even if the numbers drop drastically.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

Many of them do not make it past year one.

I know in 88, it was a similar story. Many I knew freshman year were never sophomores.

 

[Shamoan]

More students than ever and fewer asses in the seats after halftime....does not compute

 

[WayboDawg]

More students than ever and fewer asses in the seats after halftime....does not compute

I think that has more to do with the TV coverage of so many games now versus 20 years ago. With every game in the country televised, and only about 3 or 4 true big games worth buying a ticket on anyones schedule these days, folks would just rather turn on the big screen and enjoy college football from the comforts of an air-conditioned living room for free. TV coverage is killing attendance for everyone, not just MSU. And I don't blame them.... If I'm going to be expected to spend $300 (for tickets, meal, and gas) and a whole Saturday either on the road or sitting in the hot September sun in DWS, it better be a good game against a quality opponent.

 

[Duke Humphrey]

Thanks to Ayers Settlement, this can't happen

And your observations are reflective of a composite ACT average of 24. We (the University) need to be more selective, even if the numbers drop drastically.

All institutions in MS have to have same admission standards.

 

[EngDawg]

When I enrolled in Fall of 2007, State set the new enrollment record that year as well (somewhere around 18k I think). I'll be honest.... A good number of the students I saw in class had no business being enrolled at a community college much less a 4 year institution. I'm talking about students that if they showed up to class on time once a week without reeking of weed at 9 am it was an accomplishment. Reading over some of their work for group projects was like reading a document written by someone who knew about 20 words worth of English. That's why I take these enrollment numbers with a grain of salt, not everyone belongs in college.

From the lexicon page

"Dubmass ***** - Anyone, regardless of actual sexual orientation, who did not score at least a 24 on the English section of the ACT."

 

[Palos verdes]

Students loved to go to games back in the day. Today with these millennial pussies, it's more like a chore to them. They can't be wasting their precious little cool aid club time to support the team and school. Funny thing, the old timers still got more action than these losers.

 

[EngDawg]

Students loved to go to games back in the day. Today with these millennial pussies, it's more like a chore to them. They can't be wasting their precious little cool aid club time to support the team and school. Funny thing, the old timers still got more action than these losers.

Help me, I'm triggered. Let me go hide in my safe space and feel sorry for myself.

 

[RocketDawg]

All institutions in MS have to have same admission standards.

Does it apply just to Mississippi, or the entire nation, or the entire South? I'm not that familiar with the law (or settlement) but it doesn't sound desirable.

 

[hailstate19]

That was one of the most sorry efforts by the students section I ever seen. i guess they thought that state was going to blow out USA so they should go ahead and get the party started. That's not an excuse tho. I'll be attending school here next year and the thing I look forward to the most is sporting events. come on now get it together.

 

[TheStateUofMS]

So, tell me man...how's this year's freshman crop lookin?

MastersonKU

 

[Go Budaw]

And your observations are reflective of a composite ACT average of 24. We (the University) need to be more selective, even if the numbers drop drastically.

I can assure you that the "many students who don't belong in college" isn't an MSU problem or even a Mississippi problem. Pretty much every SEC school with the exception of maybe Vandy has this issue. There will always be kids who dicked around in HS but their parents have money or are connected alumni who can get their kids in college, underprivileged kids who get a shot due to affirmative action type admissions policies, etc. And a 24 average ACT is not terrible. I remember a few years ago when it was only 22 or 23. And I graduated in the top 10% of my class at a 6A school in MS and only got a 27. So hopefully a 24 isn't considered poor these days.

 

[EurekaDog]

Retaining freshmen is an issue across the nation. (NM)

ASDF