re: LSU admitted 433 students who did not meet GPA or ACT requirements

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What are the requirements? They don't seem to be listed anywhere on the Admissions page. When you go to the "Requirements" page, they just put ranges for ACT or SAT scores. And GPA ranges aren't even listed.

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The OP is kind of misleading. There aren't really hard-line requirements anymore. LSU changed to the holistic method, which is referred to in the article.

I commented on tRant a few months ago when this started that the University of Chicago has always used this approach in their admissions. The idea is that a student who may not have the overall test scores or GPA of his/her peers may still be a good fit academically, depending on what they want to pursue.

Granted, a "good fit" is subjective, and could be agenda driven. However, the method is not a bad idea theoretically, as long as it's applied without solely trying to meet arbitrary quotas of diversity.