re: Can someone explain TOPS to me?

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You don't know anyone that stayed in Louisiana because of TOPS?

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like permanently, who wouldn't have very likely wound up here anyway? i mean, think it through. where would these folks have gone to school? were they all just barely-missing out on scholarships in LA, and getting them elsewhere? or did they have college options out of state that were so much cheaper it would have been worth going there?

honestly it's really hard to think of many, maybe a half dozen folks who between them worked in LA a total of ten years between them (mostly class of 02-04). i think the best & brightest, or nearly-best & brightest, tend to go to bigger job markets anyway.

ironically i didn't get TOPS (didn't go to high school here) and I will probably stay here, although I worked out of state immediately upon graduation and until 2012