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re: TOPS payments stopped immediately due to state budget crisis
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:11 pm to ForeverLSU02
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:11 pm to ForeverLSU02
And you're the man you are today as a result. 
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Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:12 pm to BRgetthenet
I graduated HS in 1996. The year before TOPS started in 1997. Because of that I had to suck it up and take out student loans. That means TOPS has been around almost 20 years. Shocked it lasted that long.
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:13 pm to lsunurse
We're old school nurse.
These frickin kids need to learn a life lesson or two. The kind they ain't teaching under the stately oaks.
These frickin kids need to learn a life lesson or two. The kind they ain't teaching under the stately oaks.
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:13 pm to BRgetthenet
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I find that hard to believe. And if you were so smart, you would have taken a full ride out of state. Wow, you are one pathetic loser!
Students like him come to LSU every year. You're an idiot.
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:13 pm to The Pirate King
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hey're getting this shite sorted out before next fall when the next tuition is due.
they didn't make all the payments for this semester yet, the paper says current students might be on the hook for this semester
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:14 pm to BRgetthenet
You really are a shitty troll. I really hope something fricked up happens to you to make you some kind of way find your heart cuz brother, you're about as heartless as Hitler
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:14 pm to public_enemy
No it's not BS. No other state has a program like tops. Louisiana is the last state that should have a program like tops considering how many public 4 year universities they have relative to the population. And no I was not privileged. I got an academic scholarship and whatever it did not cover, I took out loans to cover the rest.
Undergraduate degrees are becoming worthless with more and more people getting degrees. College is a privilege not a right. Work hard, earn a scholarship. Since they won't up the requirements to receive tops due to it being "discriminatory", its best to just do away with it. God forbid kids actually have to work through college or take out loans.
Undergraduate degrees are becoming worthless with more and more people getting degrees. College is a privilege not a right. Work hard, earn a scholarship. Since they won't up the requirements to receive tops due to it being "discriminatory", its best to just do away with it. God forbid kids actually have to work through college or take out loans.
This post was edited on 2/11/16 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:14 pm to lsunurse
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I graduated HS in 1996. The year before TOPS started in 1997. Because of that I had to suck it up and take out student loans. That means TOPS has been around almost 20 years. Shocked it lasted that long.
but pre-TOPS Louisiana had scholarships
i know b/c my sister got several (She's around your age. Pre-TOPS)
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:14 pm to BRgetthenet
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Your an idiot.
So you can't edit.
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:15 pm to public_enemy
The world needs ditch diggers too.
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:15 pm to BRgetthenet
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And if you were so smart, you would have taken a full ride out of state.
had a chance for this, still went to LSU and utilized TOPS plus other cash scholarships from LSU. It's where I wanted to go.
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:15 pm to BRgetthenet
Sorry I already work 35 hours a week while full time to afford living expenses.
You aren't seeing the forest from the trees, man. What this means is that thousands of students like me will have to take out loans with astronomical interest rates to get a degree after being lured to stay with the promise of free to little tuition.
What it does mean is that as soon as I do get my degree, i'm going to bolt for greener pastures like everyone else due to the ineptitude of the politicians in this state.
Sure, lets cut the program altogether instead of raising the requirements to get it. If I knew TOPS would be shelved do you think I'd have stayed in state? Hell no.
You aren't seeing the forest from the trees, man. What this means is that thousands of students like me will have to take out loans with astronomical interest rates to get a degree after being lured to stay with the promise of free to little tuition.
What it does mean is that as soon as I do get my degree, i'm going to bolt for greener pastures like everyone else due to the ineptitude of the politicians in this state.
Sure, lets cut the program altogether instead of raising the requirements to get it. If I knew TOPS would be shelved do you think I'd have stayed in state? Hell no.
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:15 pm to ForeverLSU02
Good thing I'm done in May
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:15 pm to Lionnation1993
Link to no other state having it?
Undergrad degrees aren't worthless. I'm sorry whoever it was that screwed you over, but you're truly ignorant
Undergrad degrees aren't worthless. I'm sorry whoever it was that screwed you over, but you're truly ignorant
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:16 pm to BRgetthenet
Being used as a method to make PROPER improvements to the TOPS system that should have been made long ago.
Student fails out or drops out, and TOPS money converts into a loan with set payment schedule.
Students graduates and bolts within 5 years, portion of the TOPS has to be paid back.
Will be a better system in the long run.
Student fails out or drops out, and TOPS money converts into a loan with set payment schedule.
Students graduates and bolts within 5 years, portion of the TOPS has to be paid back.
Will be a better system in the long run.
This post was edited on 2/11/16 at 5:18 pm
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:17 pm to ParkerTiger7
They don't care bro. Life's good for them so they don't have to worry about this, so they can sound like hard asses. Screw college kids, right? Back in my day, we didn't have tops so ma daddy forced me to go to the plants, if I didn't get the opportunity for college, they don't need it either"
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:17 pm to ForeverLSU02
#assistantship
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:17 pm to SlowFlowPro
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"Tigerdroppings party" candidate next time, i'll play
I think also, no jail in Louisiana for non-violent crimes, but we do have 3 strikes.
Oh, stole a car, "bad boy", oh we caught you twice before? Bye Bye
Posted on 2/11/16 at 5:18 pm to Rouge
I can understand the arguments for ending TOPS, I disagree but I understand the argument
However, cutting it and not grandfathering it out for the current students is straight up thievery and bullshite. Absolutely criminal
However, cutting it and not grandfathering it out for the current students is straight up thievery and bullshite. Absolutely criminal
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