re: LSU admissions office “are you there”

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she is borderline and they do t want to tell her no.

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Yep, so she’s in an exception pool waiting to be considered. If it’s still the same as it was when I worked there, the state BoR gives LSU a percentage of last years class - I believe 4% - as an exception number. So if last years class was 7,000, they’ll be allowed to admit 280 students not meeting criteria. My biggest problem with how we did exceptions - this was 10-12 years ago - was that they were made using race as part of the consideration which pissed me off to no end. I’m talking self-described conservatives who hated affirmative action but were creaming in their panties over using race as one of the factors. These same people were thrilled to vote for JBE the first time (shocker).

My advice is for you to ALWAYS maintain contact with them in a respectful manner. Stay on the radar. Highlight actual reasons why your daughter falls short without using feelings and reasons like “oh she was just young and immature”. No, it should be “she lost a parent in 10th grade which impacted her grades” or “she was bullied in 11th grade because she was friends with a gay student so her grades suffered”. It helps if her school can provide a written statement of whatever the reason may be. Hate to say it but if the reason really was simply that she was young and immature, someone else is getting her exception spot.