re: Note to Out of State Alums

No, no one is entitled to attend LSU at all, much less at a discount.

I am of the opinion that it was a good recruiting tool for the school, and a way to attract qualified students who otherwise would not have come here. Almost without fail, it will be easier to recruit the child of an alumnus than it will to recruit an unaffiliated applicant. It was a great way to target and appeal to qualified students across the country. With the waiver the school was an excellent value for your education dollar. Without it, not so much. For that reason, I believe it was a mistake to take away the scholarship.

Has it been established that the money that funded this scholarship was subsidized by the state? If that is the case the "no tax revenue" argument given by other posters is a valid counter point to my feelings about the scholarship. If it was endowed or came from the general scholarship fund, then the school is getting the funds anyway, and the state isn't subsidizing those out of state students' tuition.