OleMissGlitter--- I love Alli from Cali!!! She is like best friends with my cousin who is also a Phi Mu.



Anyhow...I am sorry but most of the people on here just don't understand. Ole Miss is like a whole other world. It takes $$$$ to survive on the Ole Miss campus. And while not all the houses are the same size...there are a few that are slightly smaller in numbers...they have the numbers to pay the bills. The ones who closed just couldn't get the numbers. They were not terrible groups of girls, but it is extremely difficult to keep up without numbers...and it is difficult to get numbers without a reputation.

And to the person who said that less than 50% of Ole Miss girls are greek...THAT IS HUGE. Do you realize that most schools only have about 10% that are greek? My sister went to University of Tennessee ans only 17% were greek there...and they have a great greek system...so saying that ONLY about 50% of ole miss girls are greek is a HUGE #..

**Ole Miss only has about 13,000 students.

You really just have to understand the school, the state, the tradition...and all of the current houses are so established...I don't know how girls would respond to a new group. SWince Kappa Alpha Theta was chartered in 1979....2 other chapters have closed So many other organizations are afraid to invest in a new chapter that could very likely fail.

Even though not all the houses are the same size...they are all still strong groups--even the ones who are slightly smaller in #s

Oh and whoever said for the new organization to only pledge drop dead gorgeous girls...that would never work because ALL of the Ole Miss girls are drop dead gorgeous. It's disgusting ; )

Here are links to Ole Miss GLOs in case anyone wants to check them out..

AOII - http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/alphaomicronpi/

Chi O - http://www.chiomega.com/tau/

Tri Delt - http://www.olemissddd.com/

DG - http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/dg

KAT - http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/kat/

KD - http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/kd/

KKG - http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/kkg/

Phi Mu - http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/phimu

Pi Beta Phi - http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/phimu

I think you've summed things up very well. It's a whole new ballgame at Ole Miss, and I think that those who do understand but aren't Ole Miss alumnae are just in awe!

Hoddytoddy, that is a terrific post. I think I am going to have to quote you the next time I'm asked about Rush/Expansion/Etc. at Alabama. Our campuses are similar in several ways.

I agree with Bama_Alumna, our campuses are very similar....my cousin is a DEKE at Bama and my best friends were Kappa's, Pi Phi's, Alpha Gam's, AOII's, and Chi O's at Bama....very similar campuses.....BTW, I love Bama's sorority houses, all of them are so pretty!

Oh my God...I just looked through those webpages...you aren't kidding, those girls are gorgeous. I'm just going to go and hide in my hole of mediocrity. :eek:

Don't hide SDTSarah...each Ole Miss co-ed is gorgeous in her own way. I will say that we do attract some beauty queens....my own sister won Most Beautiful this year, but the guys are hot too! However, I've seen other sorority and fraternity websites and I think most Greeks are good looking people! We all seem to pride ourselves on our looks and our appearance because we are representing our GLOs. Therefore, I think we all spend more time on our hair and makeup and clothes. Thanks for the comment though. And get this, Ole Miss has smart co-eds as well.....

I agree with SDTSarah...I take very good care of myself and I think I'm quite attractive, but if I'd been at Ole Miss at age 18, I would have taken one look at those girls and assumed I was too ugly to join. If I walked into those houses, all I would be able to think about is how my pasty skin and frizzy hair would look next to all that tan sleekness.

I remember an earlier thread that posted links to houses at Mississippi State...I swear, somebody mixed up the sorority pics with backstage shots from Miss America. A person would think homely girls just don't grow in Mississippi! Maybe they are sent North at birth. ;)

IvySpice you are tooo funny!!! I had to laugh at your comment, because you hear that from southern boys quite often!!!

I posted the links to MS State last year for my cousin's rush (she pledged KD), her little sister pledged DG this year at Ole Miss!!!

Southern girls come in all shapes and sizes, they just learn early in life to dress-up head-to-toe (even if they are dressed down)!!! I would say that is a main difference I have noticed since moving to the New England!

Just wondering, is the fraternity system as competitive as the sorority system?

Hahaha...yeah the girls here so dress up...most people can't fathom that we wear dresses to football games.

But it's not like we dress up for class or anything...most girls wear t-shirts with their letters, shorts that you can't see because their shirts cover them up...they do have on a full face of makeup usually and a paper cup un hand when walking to class.

BTW, my picture is on the Phi Mu page

I would say yes, depending upon the house you are interested in. Check some earlier threads with Ole Miss Fraternity Rush in them. Fraternity Rush was on the History channel this past Fall about the pledgeship of one pledge at Phi Delta Theta.

Alpha Tau Omega--pretty hard to get into but they do take non-Mississippians
Beta Theta Pi--they are re-organizing after leaving campus for a few years, they use to be huge, but they are a great group of guys, they are working very hard and representing themselves great on campus lately to come back
Chi Psi--A smaller fraternity but I think they are nationally a smaller fraternity
Delta Psi / St. Anthony Hall--You have to have very good grades to get into Delta Psi
Delta Kappa Epsilon --Re-organizing, they left for a while, but they are back, they were started here a long time ago!
Kappa Alpha--Awesome bunch of true Southern Gentlemen
Kappa Sigma--Great bunch of guys, lots of my New Orleans guy friends were Kappa Sig's here at Ole Miss, they've been around a long time as well
Phi Delta Theta--Been around a long time, very prestigious fraternity here at Ole Miss, very large at least 200+ members, the Chancellor of Ole Miss, Chancellor Khayat, was a member of Phi Delta Theta at Ole Miss and so is one of the vice chancellor's of Student Life, Dr. Sparky Reardon. They rebuilt their house in 1998 and it was like 3 million to build a new one!
Phi Kappa Psi--been around for a long time here, they left for a few years to re-organize and now they are strong and they have a gorgeous house!
Phi Kappa Tau --They came here in the late 60s I believe and they are a strong fraternity, they have members from all over the place
Pi Kappa Alpha--They have been around for a long time as well, they are very strong and I believe nationally they have won many awards.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon--Strong but smaller fraternity, meaning they don't have 200 plus members, they have like 150!
Sigma Chi ---I think this is one of Sigma Chi's Flagstaff chapters, they are very strong and very good.
Sigma Nu--Trent Lott, Eli Manning, Archie Manning---all members of the Epsilon Zi chapter of Sigma Nu, they are an awesome fraternity. They have a swimming pool....
Sigma Phi Epsilon- The men of Mississippi Alpha of Sig Ep are my sweeties! They are very good and they take men from all over. They were founded here in the 1920s and then left for a while in the late 80s and now they are back, back in 1990, and they are awesome. Very good parties.


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As far as the frat system goes...it's definitely more competitive than other schools, but not even close to the sororities. There are the top frats that their daddies were in and they give a ton of $$...but there are more "middle of the road" frats where as all of the sororities are strong and large in #. Not all of the fraternities have high numbers. But there are also like 15 or so frats.

OleMissGlitter--- I have some friends who are Sig Eps...but my sweeties are the Kappa Sigmas!! I have hung out there since my freshman year!!! Ain't nothing like South Seas!!
I like going to Sip Ep's Haul Crawl --sp??? Those are fun.

Umm, excuse me?? Your picture on the GreekChatters site is absolutely gorgeous so quit your yipping! lol ;)