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    Want to feel old fast?

    Want to feel old fast? Take your teenage child on their first "official visit" and tour the campus. Upside? My girl says State is her #1 choice.

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    want to feel disappointed by our university fast?

    My nephew got accepted to Harvard and is damn near going to go there for free. He also got a full ride offer from Ole Miss, accepted to Vandy, etc...

    State gave him nothing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Political Hack View Post
    want to feel disappointed by our university fast?

    My nephew got accepted to Harvard and is damn near going to go there for free. He also got a full ride offer from Ole Miss, accepted to Vandy, etc...

    State gave him nothing.
    We have higher standards than Harvard and vandy**

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    I do that every time I go to Kroger here in Starkville.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg View Post
    Want to feel old fast? Take your teenage child on their first "official visit" and tour the campus. Upside? My girl says State is her #1 choice.
    Happened to me last year. If all you had done on campus in a while is go to games you really don't know how much it's changed overall it was amazing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Political Hack View Post
    want to feel disappointed by our university fast?

    My nephew got accepted to Harvard and is damn near going to go there for free. He also got a full ride offer from Ole Miss, accepted to Vandy, etc...

    State gave him nothing.
    You have to pursue it. They aren't going to knock down your door with money even if you have a high ACT.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Liverpooldawg View Post
    Happened to me last year. If all you had done on campus in a while is go to games you really don't know how much it's changed overall it was amazing.
    Definitely. The housing is a huge difference. Come a long way from the hell hole known as Seesums and the boomerangs.

    And Hack - our student recruitment has always been hit and miss, but I hear the same thing about other schools too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Political Hack View Post
    want to feel disappointed by our university fast?

    My nephew got accepted to Harvard and is damn near going to go there for free. He also got a full ride offer from Ole Miss, accepted to Vandy, etc...

    State gave him nothing.
    Maybe the last name got red flagged.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aces High View Post
    Maybe the last name got red flagged.
    That was good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by starkvegasdawg View Post
    I do that every time I go to Kroger here in Starkville.
    What's the Kroger story?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aces High View Post
    Maybe the last name got red flagged.
    different name, but they know you and I are boys.

    And he did apply for a full ride and got rejected. He'd probably have gone to Harvard regardless, but it's sort of dumb when the university doesn't take an opportunity to attach it's logo to a kid like that.

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    That is amazing! You mean you had your child actually come to the campus? Congratulations.

    I, myself will be taking a different approach. The plan is to sit on my fanny and hold my golden childs hand until the ressurected Stephen D. Lee personally shows up in my living room begging to pay me for the honor of letting said perfect little angel get an education.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gravedigger View Post
    That is amazing! You mean you had your child actually come to the campus? Congratulations.

    I, myself will be taking a different approach. The plan is to sit on my fanny and hold my golden childs hand until the ressurected Stephen D. Lee personally shows up in my living room begging to pay me for the honor of letting said perfect little angel get an education.
    or you could take him to do interviews on campus, apply for scholarships, meet with academic advisors in his areas of interest, and then get rejected and go to Harvard instead. That plan will probably work out better than yours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dallas_Dawg View Post
    What's the Kroger story?
    I would imagine it is "damn, girls didn't look that hot and dress that skimpy when I was in school"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Political Hack View Post
    want to feel disappointed by our university fast?

    My nephew got accepted to Harvard and is damn near going to go there for free. He also got a full ride offer from Ole Miss, accepted to Vandy, etc...

    State gave him nothing.
    Can your nephew kick FG's or Bunt?

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    Hack,
    Sounds like ur nephew is a liberals arts type major. My guess is that MSU (A&M) only has so much money and we probably don't put much emphasis in that area.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dallas_Dawg View Post
    What's the Kroger story?
    Spring time...weather getting warm...and the shorts get shorter and the tank tops neckline keeps lowering. Then I remember I'm 20+ years older than all of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by coastratdog View Post
    Hack,
    Sounds like ur nephew is a liberals arts type major. My guess is that MSU (A&M) only has so much money and we probably don't put much emphasis in that area.
    that could very well be it and I honestly hadn't thought of that before. He's interested in international business. Already fluent in Spanish, 34 ACT, 4.0, #1 in his class, and starting OT for a 6A public school, but sadly he can't bunt or kick FGs.

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    State has scholorships for each of those items, but you have to apply for them.

    And very few pay the full price for Harvard. And those that do can afford it. Or so my Harvard undergrad friends tell me

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    That's awesome Brunswick.

    I had the same result in the fall.

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