University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) 2012 Recruitment

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Giddy

Honors college admissions over-weight HS grades from competitive high schools. They particularly favor boarding schools. So Miss Porters and Maderia trumps Jackson HS.

Don't boarding schools sometimes have legacy policies as well (i.e. dumber daughter of rich generous alumnus may get in over smarter daughter of nobody) and don't they sometimes have a "post-graduate" year - in effect a 13th grade - for students who aren't ready for college?

(Disclaimer: The sum total of my real-life boarding school experience is a HS classmate who went to Kiski Prep.)

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by 33girl

and don't they sometimes have a "post-graduate" year - in effect a 13th grade - for students who aren't ready for college?

(Disclaimer: The sum total of my real-life boarding school experience is a HS classmate who went to Kiski Prep.)

Not where I went. But it is Catholic and you know how the nuns were back in the day.