re: LSU students from Texas, when did the big push start?

I'm from Texas, now an LSU graduate. Like others have said its the top 10% law that has had the biggest effect.

The other factor to consider is lack of mass-appealing schools after UT. UT is attractive to alot of people for its academics and location in Austin. The second best public university in Texas is A&M, which is better academically than LSU, but it is in College Station and has a 'different' culture.

TTU is further away for kids from the Houston area, and not as good academically.

Texas State seems to have gotten pretty popular with kids because it has a party reputation and is half an hour from Austin. However, it is also not very good academically

UofH is super commutery, my visit there was terrible. Same with UTSA

Personally I was rejected from UT, and got into A&M, but just couldnt do the whole aggy thing. LSU waived my OOS tuition, which honestly, made it an easy choice. Im from a small town, I dont quite remember how i started considering LSU. I dont think anyone had gone there before. I started a trend though 3 people have followed me since.

Also, UT rejects have the choice to enter into the CAP program and go to another school in the System (UTSA, UTA, etc) for a year and can gain automatic admission if they take a certain curriculum and keep a certain GPA. I think when i was looking into it you had to keep a 3.25. So certainly there was no guarantee of getting that and personally I wanted to be somewhere for 4 years.

I dont like the CAP program because of its sole emphasis on high school GPA. We all know cheating runs rampant is high schools. SAT/ACT provides a standardized approach and should be integrated into the system. That isnt sour grapes, as i dont think i would have gotten into UT even if the system didnt exist