rush question??

Mississippi girls and others from certain places in the South have strong connections to each other and know each other, or about each other, before they come to Ole Miss. It helps pnm's when actives in a house know them personally from high school or home town or summer camp or church or wherever, or they are related to people they know, or their parents know each other, or have a strong legacy connection to a chapter. It's all about connections sometimes. But this can work in reverse also if a pnm is known about in a bad way.

Not from the south, but love the south. I thought hospitality was special here not just towards legacy high school 2.0 girls….so most of u that think ur top are not nice or pretty. Interesting…

They are more likely to have siblings or get married and stay in the state and family will more likely go to Ole Miss. People from far away will move on and in most cases never come back or send kids to university.

But a girl from California at UCLA or Stanford who knows people in a specific house will have a much better chance of getting a bid than a girl from Mississippi who doesn’t know anyone.

These are the answers I can tell:

1) tradition
2) more likely to know if the girl comes from a "good family" - reputation
3) less likely to drop because of family ties or peer pressure
4) the alumni choose the classes and because so many come to ole miss, they know them and choose them first

Don't try and make sense of it, it makes perfect sense to them, doesn't make sense to those who are out of state (not talking tennessee or alabama). The logical counter arguments would be:

1) tradtion is wonderful but as ole miss pulls more and more from around the country you are dismissing great women who choose ole miss for many of those traditions you also lovd simply because of geography.
2) Why assume that not knowing the reputation means there is something wrong? Be positive!
3) okay fair. At the end of the day a sorority has a business side - 4 years of dues matter. But let's not base a recruitment strategy on that.
4) i don't get this. These college students wear your letters, share your values, let them FULLY select their sisterhood. Why not trust about them entirely? Yes, sure, everybody will say that girls vote, etc but we all know that behind the rush team is a very busy group of moms and alums.

So, I don't get it. Somebody pointed out about friends at UCLA or Stanford pulling their frienss, but at Ole Miss it is much more entrenched. Not the same comparison.

I agree with your question because I too was just as curious as u were.

I think everyone’s points are all true. A big part of it is that a lot of the in state houses have their alumni pick for them. So they have their bid lists before recruitment even starts.

All the other stuff I’m sure is true to some extent and probably how it started out.

But not it really just comes down to sheer numbers and financials. I feel like once they started realizing they were making more money off there members off spring it became a great marketing ploy. And not only for chapters but also for ole miss. So in short they choose the in state people because they know they will keep paying there dues and one day there kids will too.


I will say it’s a faulty system because while yes. Southern in state girls seem to know more and be more familiar with rush. And no matter how nice their families are. The out of state girls are probably the ones with more money. Seeing as they pay out of stay, and don’t have parents employed and living in Mississippi. Girls from New York or California probably live 4.5 million dollar condos that are worth more than mississippi mansions.