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Originally Posted by irishpipes
Yes like Katherine said, many parents buy the home before they know if their daughter will pledge a sorority. The nice new dorm on campus is currently charging over $7,000 for a room (not including a meal plan) so parents see that and decide the money is better spent on a mortgage.
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Wow, that is high! The newest dorms at Ole Miss charge about $4500-$5000 a school year. I do wonder if the trend to live on campus will change. Ole Miss is building 3 new dorms in the next couple of years. So I wonder if that will help to encourage more students to stay on campus longer.
Currently, most sororities (not all) do require that their sophomores live on a sorority floor in one of the dorms if they aren't living in their house. However this coming school year, because of old dorms being torn down and the new ones not built yet, those sophomore sorority women will have to live off-campus or somewhere else on campus. So, that will throw another twist in the living requirements for sororities at Ole Miss. I have always had the mentalitliy,
I don't care where they live as long as the house is full and rent is paid! 
Oh and keeping your sophomores on campus I think does have a huge positive! It totally helps with recruiting! When you have 80 pledge sisters occupying an entire floor in one of the women's dorms that makes a statement!