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If you don't want to be surrounded by people like that, don't come to ole miss

the last thing we should be doing is allowing poor people into our greek community

You can't ever have everything you want. That's life. Deal with it. Or work your a s s off to pay for it if you think it's that important to you like lots of other people do.

You have to pay for everything you get in life. The original poster said she had $3,000 saved up, and would that be enough for her to afford a sorority. The response was without a plan to get more money for the first year and each and every year thereafter, no, and that is good advice.

Most of the Greeks at Ole Miss are from upper-middle-class families, some just plain old middle class, with a few truly rich kids thrown. It may seem like there are lots of rich kids because the cost of living and housing in Mississippi is low, and the cost of attending Ole Miss is low, and so there is more money to spend on luxuries. Some families have to struggle a bit to pay fraternity or sorority bills, but it's something they want, and so they pay for it. Other parents don't think it is important, and so they don't pay for it.

For an upper-middle-class family, $25,000 over four years simply isn't much money at all, particularly for a student attending an inexpensive school. So sororities are not for the rich only. They are for the rich and the upper middle class, who can just write a check, and the middle class, which has to budget for it and want it. But lower middle class and below will not be able to afford the bills, in all likelihood, and that's just life. It's a luxury.

Do you not realize that oos girls are typically 30x prettier and wealthier than miss girls? Please get over yourself, miss is one of the states with citizens in the most amount of debt. It's all for show with a good majority of you.

Is obviously POOR herself

Jealous much? You must be one of the girls who feel like you entitled to a bid even though you got cut. Also, if Mississippi is such a horrible place maybe you should get out. It would be an improvement!

Sorry sorry @disgusting is poor AND a try hard

@Disgusting, you are honestly psychotic, do you not think its glaringly obvious that you downvoted my comments and upvoted yours a bunch of times? Do you have anything better to do? Lol.

You seem really insecure to have to brag about being accomplished and popular on Greekrank. Again, no one outside of this backwoods state would by any means consider you to be wealthy or "classy" and I bet your idea of being well-travelled is a two week tour of Europe in high school.

It's funny you have to try to defend yourself so hard though! And I don't know who you think I am, because I never said I had any trouble paying for MY sorority; quite the opposite, actually, I was simply calling you out for your ignorance.

Anyway, as fun as this has been, your comments show that you clearly don't have a grasp of logic or reading comprehension so bye, have fun being the most popular and successful girl in all of the grand state of Mississippi!

And @disgusting is insecure and therefore poor.

Posts by @disgusting or talking to @disgusting have 50+ thumbs up/down while everyone else's posts have like 4 tops... Desperate muchhhhh

frats are generally cheaper

There are other schools with much less expensive Greek life than ole miss! Also take into consideration that the meals and housing expenses will have to paid for whether you go Greek or not, so however you're paying for school (parents, loan, scholarship) that portion has likely already been accounted for. Most of the people on here are trying to make you feel bad and like you're poor but they probably only have that attitude because they're only just scrapping by themselves. It's awesome that at such a young age you feel like you should take on that responsibility yourself instead of feeling entitled to it by your parents! I felt very entitled most of my life and now I kinda feel like a selfish spoiled brat for being that way and spending so much of my parents money! Whether they can afford it or not none of us "deserve" k after k after k spent on us. Sorry people on here are so bitter, it's almost always due to jealousy.