<p>Happy to help.</p>
<p>Please read this article. It will help explain why all Mississippi state schools have the same standards across the board. For further information you can also just google the court case: [Mississippi</a> appeal refused - Ayers v. Fordice, college admission standards and black enrollment](<a href=“http://diverseeducation.com/article/8414/]Mississippi”>http://diverseeducation.com/article/8414/)</p>
<p>Thanks, onelnoe! I’ve wondered about their admissions system for a long time. Now I know.</p>
<p>I’m confused. Are the plaintiffs claiming that the ACT 25th percentile score of 14 is “setting the admission bar too high?”</p>
<p>[Rust</a> College in Holly Springs, Mississippi](<a href=“College Search Database: Find Your College Match | Cappex”>College Search Database: Find Your College Match | Cappex)</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>I don’t know what Rust is saying but…</p>
<p>Rust College is a historically black liberal arts college located in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Located approximately 35 miles southeast of Memphis, Tennessee, it is the second-oldest private college in the state and is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and one of only ten historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) founded before 1868 still to be in operation.</p>
<p>Since the avg ACT score for AA’s in the US is an ACT 16, it could be argued that setting admissions at ACT 14 would mean that that this HBSC couldn’t accept many students who are just under the avg for AAs. While some may think that someone with an ACT 14 or below shouldn’t be in college, that may not be true for some students who just received a very inadequate K-12 education and can benefit and grow in college.</p>
<p>Ayers mandates system wide admission standards to all public schools in Mississippi. The minimum standards are EXTREMELY low. Many of the Mississippi Universities have very poor graduation rates because a lot of the freshmen are very poorly prepared for college.</p>
<p>You can easily look up the standards
[Office</a> of Admissions and Enrollment Services](<a href=“http://www.olemiss.edu/admissions/fap.html]Office”>http://www.olemiss.edu/admissions/fap.html)
If you have taken a typical college prep curriculum in high school you need a 3.20 gpa to be guaranteed admission (with ANY ACT or SAT score).
A 2.50 gpa requires a 16 ACT
A 2.00 gpa requires a 18 ACT</p>
<p>So even if you’re out of state and you meet those requirements you’re automatically admitted?</p>
<p>Just looking at the first page, why would anyone want to go to a school that’s not considered an “academic” school. Going to football games, getting drunk, and reading the Bible is great and all but I think you go to college to get a degree first.</p>
<p>… plus Ole Miss football oversigns hard, like the rest of the SEC. Helped them win all their titles recently</p>
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Huh? What is your definition of an “academic” school?</p>
<p>Ole Miss certainly is an academic school. it’s ridiculous to think that just because a school is in the SEC (or some other BIG DIV I football conference) that the students only care about football and partying. That’s nonsense.</p>
<p>And what the coaches do about signing/over-signing/whatever has NOTHING to do with academics.</p>
<p>Do you really think that a univ with a good med school is not “academic”?</p>
<p>:rolleyes:</p>
<p>There’s not a single SEC school that I would be ashamed to send my kids to. My son works his butt off at Ole Miss and has had academic opportunities I never expected (traveling the world, learning from leading researchers, etc.). I’m proud to be an Ole Miss dad, and sports has nothing to do with it.</p>
<p>Visit and see for yourself. You won’t come away saying it’s “non-academic”.</p>
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<p>“… the Ole Miss forum doesn’t have much going on.”</p>
<p>Because?</p>
<p>My comment about it being non-academic refers to some of the first posts on the first page. I am just repeating what they said.</p>
<p>I don’t believe all big D1 schools are about football and partying, I go to Michigan. But when you are a big D1 school AND not academically strong then I would have to think there is more of a sway towards non-academic stuff. </p>
<p>The oversigning was me just blowing off some college football steam. Everyone wasnts to crown the SEC but no one realizes how much easier their recruiting rules are then the Big Ten and other conferences.</p>
<p>*But when you are a big D1 school AND not academically strong then I would have to think there is more of a sway towards non-academic stuff. *</p>
<p>You set up a straw man argument, and then followed with an imagined conclusion. That doesn’t seem very intelligent to me.</p>
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Then maybe you should learn that critical thinking UMich is supposed to teach.</p>
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<p>Then I suggest that you read the rest of the posts.</p>
<p>We’re in agreement then … Ole Miss gets added to the list of “public Ivys.”</p>
<p>how hard is it for an out of state student to get into ole miss? and will someone from the new york city fit in there?</p>
<p>Here is the link to your other thread asking about this: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1286447-am-i-right-track-ole-miss.html#post13847686[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1286447-am-i-right-track-ole-miss.html#post13847686</a> Do well in school and you should get in.</p>