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re: Louisiana should eliminate TOPS, Free up Budget
Posted on 2/16/16 at 11:30 am to therick711
Posted on 2/16/16 at 11:30 am to therick711
quote:The state of Louisiana has become very blind to what is going on. TOPS "may" have been designed to keep the best and brightest at home, but it is rewarding the very average as well. At the same time they are financially punishing higher achieving out-of-state students. Those same students qualify for more scholarships at Alabama than they do at LSU.
That being said, the core GPA can and should be raised to help the program remain viable.
Eventually only the kids of die-hard LSU fans will attend LSU from out of state, because the cost of tuition will lead them to other schools for financial reasons.
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Posted on 2/16/16 at 11:33 am to Oddibe
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but it is rewarding the very average as well.
Right now about 30% of Louisiana High School graduates claim the award. One can surmize that those students are around the top 30% of what our high schools put out. I'm not sure how a top 30% achiever in this state is considered average. You might think it should be higher, and that is fine, but as compared to their peers, TOPS recipients are decisively above average. They also perform very well in college compared to non-TOPS students.
Posted on 2/16/16 at 11:51 am to Oddibe
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The state of Louisiana has become very blind to what is going on. TOPS "may" have been designed to keep the best and brightest at home, but it is rewarding the very average as well.
I don't see how that precludes the program from keeping the best in state.
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At the same time they are financially punishing higher achieving out-of-state students.
I'm not buying this. LSU (and all of LA) has some of the lowest oos tuition in the country
LINK
This list shows LSU as the first major, non-satellite, university for oos tuition. Now I'm not putting all my stock into this link, but everything I have ever seen has been consistent in that LSU is one of the cheaper universities you can attend, regardless of residency.
Posted on 2/16/16 at 12:07 pm to Oddibe
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The state of Louisiana has become very blind to what is going on. TOPS "may" have been designed to keep the best and brightest at home, but it is rewarding the very average as well.
TOPS was designed for the average.
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The original 1989 “Taylor Plan” required that students earn a 2.5 GPA in a 17.5 unit college prep curriculum and score of 18 on the ACT. Because the program was implemented initially for low and moderate-income students, the legislature capped the family income requirement at $25,000 for families with one dependent child, increasing it by $5,000 for each additional child, up to a maximum of $35,000. The “Taylor Plan” awarded qualified students with tuition and fees at any 4-year public college or university in Louisiana.
This post was edited on 2/16/16 at 12:09 pm
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