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re: Student applications up 20% after winning the championship, 15% from out of state.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:50 pm to The Hurricane
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:50 pm to The Hurricane
Great raise out of state tuition
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Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:52 pm to TheCaterpillar
Differences between the quality of education among SEC universities is generally overstated. The reality is the difference in the education that one receives at LSU or UGA in a typical bachelor’s degree program is insignificant.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 4:13 pm to TheCaterpillar
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LSU is not as good of a school as UGA and definitely not UF.
Of course not, but it’s in the same ballpark as Alabama, Auburn, UK, USC, UT, etc. Decent schools that are affordable and therefore are a good value for most people in the south.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 4:20 pm to ImayGoLesMiles
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It's just a well rounded University with a dynamic and unique college experience that you can't get anywhere else.
It is hard to explain to anyone who hasn't experienced it - lifecin Louisiana, and LSU in particular. I wish I could go back and do it again.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 4:23 pm to The Hurricane
That’s how UA has been for years. Their student body was like 50% out of state. It sounds crazy but kids want to go where football is king. I’m guilty of being one of these kids.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 4:26 pm to SammyTiger
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Alabama has greatly improved their academic university by winning football
Turns out smart kids want to have fun and watch good football as well.
They attract so many kids from the northeast because of them winning.
They also put up a tent every single year outside old cotton bowl from Red River Rivalry. That’s extremely smart marketing to attract Texas kids.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 4:31 pm to Magician2
I’m sure they do something similar in ATL. I love having a diverse student body. It’s cool to meet people from all over as well as Louisiana of course.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 5:00 pm to Jim Rockford
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A business associate's daughter graduated from Wesleyan, which is a near-Ivy. She could have gotten into a top ten law school and chose Alabama
Well, this is about undergrad and...
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Broadly speaking
Posted on 5/14/20 at 5:14 pm to turnpiketiger
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A rising tide lifts all boats.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 5:44 pm to ImayGoLesMiles
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This post was edited on 1/10/21 at 3:08 pm
Posted on 5/14/20 at 5:50 pm to The Hurricane
I would like LSU to keep its 80-20 split it had when I was in school. Just enough out of state kids to add some diversity and variety and plenty of Louisiana kids to keep it a state school. I say this as an out of state student who now lives in Louisiana. I do not want us to become an Alabama where it’s 60% out of state kids who know nothing of the area or state they live in and essentially live on a little island. Similar to how Tulane is in New Orleans. My brother went to WVU and it’s the same way. In all my visits I met probably10x the number of kids from New Jersey than from West Virginia. Be a national brand but take care of your in state residents first.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 6:16 pm to jlovel7
And what if LSU can’t fulfill these numbers with in state students? Do you lower the standards to get your in state quota or turn away more OOS money?
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.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 6:21 pm to SammyTiger
Yeah, Alabama has exploded with students after winning 5 national titles. UA enrollment is 38 to 40 thousand with 50 percent out of state.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 6:23 pm to TheCaterpillar
Well said, MARINATiNG love that analogy, it’s like a few years back when every time you saw something or heard something about College Football is was all about Alabama. It just infuriated me, now it’s all LSU and I can’t get enough. I imagine other football fans are saying the same, “Every time I turn on the tube it’s LSU this and LSU that.” The BRAND is reaching out and reaching epic status.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 6:28 pm to The Hurricane
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And what if LSU can’t fulfill these numbers with in state students? Do you lower the standards to get your in state quota or turn away more OOS money?
Most state schools are starting to use out of state students for exactly that. Because they can charge them more money. That’s not how a university should operate.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 6:52 pm to jlovel7
The Univ of alabama started expanding greatly in the 1990s. They did so by offering Metro ATL kids (and others) scholarships. It was the kids that could not get into UGA or Ga Tech who went to alabama. The fast population growth of Georgia and the advent of the HOPE scholarship in the early 1990s allowed UGA and GT to keep the best kids in Georgia and pushed the slightly above average kids out of state, to alabama and Clemson.
I was working at a huge high school in suburban ATL in those days (1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.) I saw this happen as it started. The bammers did a great job of recruiting academically-marginal kids and throwing around scholarship money long before Nick Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa.
I was working at a huge high school in suburban ATL in those days (1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.) I saw this happen as it started. The bammers did a great job of recruiting academically-marginal kids and throwing around scholarship money long before Nick Saban arrived in Tuscaloosa.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 7:31 pm to jlovel7
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Be a national brand but take care of your in state residents first.
The reality is, Louisiana has too many other four year universities. That combined with the fact that as a culture Louisianans have close families. This means many elect to stick around where they grew up and go to the local school. Then you have those that have the chance to go to LSU but for God knows why they elect to go to Ole Miss or UA just because. Also, us attracting more out of state students might in turn lead to some of them sticking around after graduation to improve the state.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 7:34 pm to Golfer
LSU also gets some of the Texas kids that can’t get in to UT or TAMU due to both schools’ enrollment caps.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 7:38 pm to SammyTiger
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Alabama has greatly improved their academic university by winning football
Yes and no.
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