Apparently I can’t. Why don’t you explain what you mean by that statement?

BTW, sorry for the error re the school the crazy Harvard educated prof. was working at the time of her rampage.

“The students ought to be up in arms over Ole Miss’s inferior academic rankings. Mascots may come and mascots may go, but Ole Miss remains mired in Tier 3 or 4, depending on who is doing the scaling. I hope to live long enough to see Ole Miss ranked near the top of Tier 2 rankings … maybe even Tier 1. It can be done, but there’s a long way to go and a choice of mascots is purely chasin’ rabbits.”

Umm just because Ole Miss is in Oxford doesn’t mean its Oxford University. You obviously didn’t go to school there, as being a top tier academic school has never been a priority…(ie. “We may never win a game, but we’ll never lose a party.”) Pull your head out of your *ss and go to Vanderbilt for your Top Tier education. Do not go to Ole Miss for anything besides 4 years of a debaucherous good time, and that makes me proud to be Ole Miss alum. Oh, and did I mention the girls? Yeah, um, Vanderbilt doesn’t hold a candle to the Rebel women…good luck douche!

While I disagree with this characterization of Ole Miss, if being “third tier” also means being more open and receptive and providing higher educational opportunities to a broader segment of our state’s population, then I can live with that characterization. Ultimately, like life itself, your education is your personal responsibility — no matter what college you attend, college is largely what you make it to be. You can be accepted into and graduate from one of the most elite, prestigious schools in the country, and still be an idiot — the crazy Harvard educated female prof at the University of Alabama is a living testament to this fact.

A school’s academic rankings are essentially determined by its admission standards. You simply can’t have a great university with classes full of fairly dull students. Because of various federal court edicts, Ole Miss must have extremely low admission standards — some of the lowest in the nation. As long as the admission standards are low, Ole Miss will be bottom or third tier.