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Two LSU on-campus senior apartments changing to freshman housing next year.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:37 pm
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:37 pm
Gotta make more room for that incoming freshman money.
https://lsureveille.com/270366/news/reslife-makes-drastic-changes-to-housing-for-next-year-heres-who-it-will-affect-the-most/
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LSU ResLife told the Reveille East and West Campus apartments will only house first-year students next year, a move that will restrict upperclassmen from returning to on-campus housing.
In an email provided to The Reveille, LSU ResLife told a student that WCA will be a “first-year community” starting next year.
ResLife said it would formally announce the news to ECA and WCA residents by Wednesday at the latest.
For some upperclassmen living in the WCA and ECA communities, the announcement of limited housing has sparked frustration as students say the decision leaves them scrambling for housing months earlier than expected.
https://lsureveille.com/270366/news/reslife-makes-drastic-changes-to-housing-for-next-year-heres-who-it-will-affect-the-most/
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Director of ResLife Peter Trentacoste says this temporary restriction is necessary to reserve enough beds for what is projected to be another large freshman class.
Trentacoste did not provide an estimated number of freshmen for the next fall semester.
Upperclassmen residents say this decision leaves them little time to find affordable housing off campus, particularly for students with disabilities or without transportation.
A new dorm is being built to accommodate the large number of freshmen who will continue to be admitted. According to planning documents, the dorm will house 1,200 and will be done by fall 2027.
LSU announced this year’s freshman class broke enrollment records for the eighth year in a row.
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According to their websites, ECA houses about 670 students while WCA houses 500.
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LSU HOUSING IS A FREAKING JOKE!!!! Anyone asking why the priority for freshmen?? $$$$$ because after the 1st yr most fresh leave b/c of the disaster LSU is.
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 4:45 pm
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Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:40 pm to Shexter
With current admissions standards these will be no different than the trash apartments in Tigerland
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:49 pm to Shexter
Good times living in WCA. Had a couple of smokes with some football players in building 11 a few times.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:55 pm to Shexter
I dont know if they ever did this, but I think they should require freshmen to live on campus. I did, and it was great. Then everyone moves off campus their soph or junior year. They also need to get rid of all the run down housing around campus. The northgate is unacceptable, that should be a nice area for freshmen to hang out in. The stuff around tigerland down alvin dark is like a war zone. The city needs to stop green lighting all these new housing complexes. The old ones go to shite and become section 8 breeding grounds for crime.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 4:57 pm to Shexter
Displacing upper classmen for freshmen is bull shite.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:03 pm to theliontamer
I believe Freshman ARE required to live on campus, hence the housing shortages.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:06 pm to Shexter
Those were fun little spots back in the day. Way better than the dorms. Wonder if that will be "honors" housing like Laville used to be.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:17 pm to Shexter
ECA 04-07. Peak.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:38 pm to Shexter
Those two places were awesome in 2001-2003. Probably trashed out by now.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:40 pm to theliontamer
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. They also need to get rid of all the run down housing around campus.
They demolished Kirby Smith; and if it was still standing today they'd probably decide to keep that thing.
But otherwise yes, I agree.....Tiger Town especially needs to be demolished completely and converted to single family housing and duplexes at most. No apartment complexes.
They've added these new dorms/apartments on campus in the last 7 years and it's still not enough:
Azalea Hall
Camellia Hall
Cedar Hall
Spruce Hall
Cypress Hall
Marsh Hall
Bayou Hall
Oxbow Hall
Nicholson Hall
They have another one under construction now across from the Business College that looks like it will be the biggest one on campus.
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 5:49 pm
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:45 pm to Cosmo
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With current admissions standards these will be no different than the trash apartments in Tigerland
I still haven’t seen a report on the new freshman class facts post census for the fall of 2025, but for all undergraduates on campus this semester blacks are now pushing 24% out of all undergraduates with almost a 900 to 1,000 gain while whites have dropped below 54% of all undergraduates with another almost 300 loss.
If this was done because of truly high standards including standardized testing being a requirement and properly weighted for admissions, honors college, and scholarships it wouldn’t be as big of a deal, but we know that’s not the case.
LSU is allowing inflated grades with only 47% of freshman class enrollees submitting ACT/SAT scores last fall (2024) which included over 600 more enrollees with “4.0” GPAs not submitting scores than the “4.0” GPAs enrollees submitting scores. For the fall 2024 an estimated 1,148 freshman enrollees with 4.0s submitted ACT or SAT scores while an estimated 1,792 freshman enrollees with 4.0s did not submit ACT or SAT scores.
LSU lowered standards by making ACT and SATs voluntary for admissions, Honors, and scholarships controlled by LSU and is handing out LSU funded grants and scholarships based on inflated GPAs without standardized testing to fill in the holes left over after enrollee’s Pell Grant aid. LSU is basically helping to fund the increase of poorer black students with inflated grades (that are likely to also be from out of state) and the decrease of white students.
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 7:09 pm
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:50 pm to dallastigers
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LSU lowered standards and is handing out LSU funded grants and scholarships to fill in the holes left over after enrollee’s Pell Grant aid. LSU is paying to increase black students while decreasing white students.
Not all of these students remain after 2-3 semesters. They are letting students that are not prepared into LSU. It's a trend nationwide.
LSU gets their tuition and in exchange the students that aren't prepared get student loans for the time they were there before flunking out.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:53 pm to theliontamer
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I dont know if they ever did this, but I think they should require freshmen to live on campus.
I believe UGA has reinstituted this practice in the last year or two.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:53 pm to Shexter
Ok so let’s just go ahead and discuss the elephant in the room. The admissions.
The housing is gonna turn, well, let’s just call it interesting.
And so, you are gonna start seeing a drastically different LSU and not like next year but within, 5-10 years, you will see LSU become a white majority school.
Seems crazy but when the admissions are massive not white, it only takes a several years for whites to graduate and it become white minority.
The housing is gonna turn, well, let’s just call it interesting.
And so, you are gonna start seeing a drastically different LSU and not like next year but within, 5-10 years, you will see LSU become a white majority school.
Seems crazy but when the admissions are massive not white, it only takes a several years for whites to graduate and it become white minority.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 5:55 pm to Floyd Dawg
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I believe UGA has reinstituted this practice in the last year or two.
my daughter went to DePaul, on campus housing is available to freshmen only, and it's pretty limited at that, pretty pricey for a college kid to live in downtown Chicago
Posted on 11/19/25 at 6:23 pm to Shexter
My girlfriend lived in the east campus apartments the first year they opened. I bet my jizz would still show up under a black light
Posted on 11/19/25 at 6:30 pm to Shexter
quote:Okay.
Two LSU on-campus senior apartments changing to freshman housing next year.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 6:41 pm to theliontamer
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I dont know if they ever did this, but I think they should require freshmen to live on campus. I did, and it was great. Then everyone moves off campus their soph or junior year. They also need to get rid of all the run down housing around campus. The northgate is unacceptable, that should be a nice area for freshmen to hang out in. The stuff around tigerland down alvin dark is like a war zone. The city needs to stop green lighting all these new housing complexes. The old ones go to shite and become section 8 breeding grounds for crime.
I think any non-regional school (like ULM in Louisiana, UNF in Florida, USM in Mississippi, etc.) should require freshmen to live on campus freshman year unless you have some sort of waiver.
I did, just for my freshman year, and I can't imagine not living on campus. The friends I made from my freshman-year hall, the memories from all of the hijinks in the dorm, the sense of community you have from living in a dorm with other freshmen, it's just something that can't even be close to replicated in an off-campus apartment.
I never wanted to live in a dorm again after freshman year, but that freshman year dorm experience was something I really cherish. And I'm still close friends with so many people from my freshman year hall.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 6:47 pm to member12
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LSU gets their tuition and in exchange the students that aren't prepared get student loans for the time they were there before flunking out.
Any entity accepting government backed loans as part of payment should have to undergo audits before raising tuition and to ensure attrition rates do not support what you suggest. Since the government backed student loan proliferation (particularly after Student Loan Reform Act of 1993), college education costs have skyrocketed with no real oversight or accountability.
The Bennett Hypothesis continues to prove truer and truer with each year.
This post was edited on 11/19/25 at 6:51 pm
Posted on 11/19/25 at 6:59 pm to go ta hell ole miss
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The Bennett Hypothesis continues to prove truer and truer with each year.
Raises tuition and pushes out college and law graduates like this -
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