Ole Miss, Livingston (now West Alabama), USM, or Millsaps
I thought I might become a Marine officer like my dad, so until my Junior Year in High School I was wanting to choose between Ole Miss and Livingston, because OM had a Navy ROTC program and my brother attended Livingston.
By my senior year of High School (and after a week at Boy's State), I was interested in Political Science. Both Millsaps and USM had good Poly Sci departments. I liked my visit to USM but Millsaps kept recruiting me so I went there.
By the middle of my freshman year, I was seeing how Petroleum Engineers were making HUGE salaries ($30,000/yr back then) just out of college, so I decided to transfer Mississippi State for its PTE program.