This was our first college visit. University Mississippi is not a school that would have been on my son’s radar. However, he has test scores that could get him into most schools, but a GPA that makes merit aid more of a problem. I did some research and found schools that gave at least full tuition to NMSF. This was the one on the list that had the programs he wants. It was a nice campus, and Oxford is a neat town. S is impressed enough to want to apply when he gets home. He’ll still check out Drexel and Temple, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he picked Temple if they weight his GPA so that he’s eligible for their top scholarship. He enjoyed meeting with someone from the math department. I think the guy was Impressed a rising senior had already taken the AP Calculus test and gotten a 5 (I’m sure that’s true of lots of kids of CC folks). At the very least this is a solid safety school for a NMSF. I’m sure he would be able to find a group of liberal, quirky kids (and hopefully make friends with not so liberal students as well) if he ends up here. It was definitely worth flying down to visit. Now I get to visit Memphis, which is in my home state but in the opposite corner from my home town.
Glad you enjoyed the visit @mstomper. I hope that he’ll stay in touch with the contacts made there and will seriously consider enrolling at the university.
@mstomper, did you enjoy Memphis? See the Peabody, Sun studios? Eat some BBQ? Check out Beale Street?
Of course we had BBQ. We went to Beale St. Pig. It was excellent, as was the Rib Cage in Oxford. I wish we had gotten to Peabody early enough to see the Ducks March in. We didn’t have time to visit anything; our flight left at 5. Even though I lived in TN until my late twenties I had never been to Memphis. It’s a long state, and I lived in the East.