re: Note to Out of State Alums

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UT is almost twice the size of LSU and enjoys a ranking and reputation in the Top 50--size has nothing to do with it, standards do.

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Wow, your lack of understanding how colleges work is amazing.

First off, UT has the 2nd largest endowment in the US only behind Harvard. That alone makes them an entirely different beast ($12.1 Billion to LSU's $555 Million). I'd sau a 24-fold higher endowment makes it pretty damn different.

Secondly, UT does have ~52,000 students. they have ~39,000 Undergrads and ~13,000 Grad students. That means their grad students make up 25% of their student body and are involved in research. That is what brings in money. So 25% of their students are bringing in money outside of tuition to their university unlike undergrads that are economically a net drain on the university while there.

LSU, on the other hand, has 26,000 students(much lower than the 32,000 when I was there 10 years ago), and of that 26,000 only 4,000 are graduate students or roughly 15%. Again,that is LSU's issue. They have too much money pumped into their undergrads and actually should continue to get smaller in the undergrad and larger in the grad student populations.

This cut in a useless scholarship that brings very little positive to the university, may help do that.