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re: Student applications up 20% after winning the championship, 15% from out of state.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:20 pm to The Hurricane
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:20 pm to The Hurricane
It blows my mind that a student would choose where to get an education based on the football team, but whatever works!
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Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:23 pm to Laman1978
Dude, LSU is a good school. Theyre not just picking it for football. Having a good football team to watch certainly doesn't hurt enrollment. I hate when people say that kids are just going to school at LSU bc of the football team. LSU just got a shitload of national publicity for free by what our team accomplished last season, and this is what comes from of it. LSU seems like a good fun school to attend, that's why kids want to come here.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:26 pm to Laman1978
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It blows my mind that a student would choose where to get an education based on the football team, but whatever works!
Broadly speaking, the attraction doesn't come from those who are pursing truly elite universities. I doubt LSU is pulling kids who would normally attend Stanford, Rice, Northwestern, etc.
But they'll get the kid from Kansas City that was accepted to Texas Tech, Kentucky, and Iowa State.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:41 pm to Laman1978
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It blows my mind that a student would choose where to get an education based on the football team, but whatever works!
Outside of a few Ivies getting an undergrad degree from LSU will get you where you want to go at least in the southeast. No issues pursuing professional school etc.
90% of students should make their decision based on an overall fit rather than pure school academic rankings.
The 15% oos uptick is not from the people who were planning on going to Harvard.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 6:20 pm to Laman1978
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It blows my mind that a student would choose where to get an education based on the football team, but whatever works!
I do think there's an element of simple visibility too.
Kids can't apply everywhere. They can't even research every school. They probably all have some sort of long term schools on their wish list.
Then, they likely add a few and let's just be frank. Part of that simply is going to be driven by name recognition. Sure. everyone knows about LSU, but in the last year, if you were 17, you heard them referred to CONSTANTLY.
This would likely cause at least some to check out LSU where they may have never even looked before.
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