re: why do some people on here say that Florida

This is the best answer to the initial question:

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b/c they invented gatorade

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Really though, if you want LSU to improve, then put your money where your mouth is. Harvard and Yale and Vandy don't depend on state legislatures to improve their academics--they depend on private donations. It's time we realize that the state is never going to be able to give LSU enough support to take the academic side of the institution to the next level. If every graduate would support the school, and there are a bunch of graduates out there, then we could compete at a higher level. IMO, LSU did a lot for me. I feel like it's my obligation to give back. Do you?

By any statistical measure, the average UF student is more intelligent than the average LSU student
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God, Will I need to create another fool.

You also have no idea what you speak of. What statistical measure are you using ACT test scores. SAT test scores. These are not measures of intelligence.

Intelligence comes from the Latin verb intellegere, which means "to understand". By this rationale, intelligence (as understanding) is arguably different from being "smart" (able to adapt to one's environment). It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings—"catching on", "making sense" of things, or "figuring out" what to do.[3]

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What makes it a better school than LSU?

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Ummmmmmm. Nothing.

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what?

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I love it when a clueless geek falls for the phony bone misspelling trap.

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What I said is that all of this talk about rating of schools and UF being "better" than LSU is horse shite. I has no meaning and it does not matter. It is all up to the individual and what he chooses to do.

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I do not believe this. If this were to hold true, then why would anyone ever pay the money to attend an expensive institution with better programs, professors, facilities, prestige, etc..?

All things being equal, if someone applies themselves at Stanford vs. applying themselves at LSU....then.

Average Stanford Student >> Average LSU Student.

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I am not arguing that your degree matters all that much once you are part of the workforce. However, it can be a vital step to opening the door to create an opportunity. The opportunity a Harvard degree offers is just that, an opportunity an LSU grad may never be given out of undergrad.

Give you an example.

I am a Chemical Engineer. In our Plant Design course of our senior year we were given a problem to take an existing chemical plant (on paper) which was loosing money and design in techniques and additional equipment in order to make the plant more efficient and make money (we had to do the economics also). One critical piece of equipment was a distillation column. The professor gave us a box of cards (fortran program-we had no pc's) and he said you can use this for the distillation.
We had 15 days to complete. I tried this fortran program for 2 days and continued to get non convergence on the output. I pulled my hair out and decided to give up on the program and do all by hand. We had 30 people in the class. I got the only A. I went to talk to the professor and he asked me how did I get the program to work. I said that I did not, I shite canned it. He laughed and said that it never would have worked and that I was the only one to shite can it. He told me that he felt very good that he was at least graduating one person who could think outside of academics.
The objective was to fix the plant so that it could make money, not to make the computer program work. I thought after, who taught me this concept of concentrating on the real problem? My grandfather who could not really measure up with a resume or a GPA.
Your university will not do this for you. No matter which one. Don't get so hung up on what university is better. It's all a bunch of toilet paper. It's up to you.

I do not believe this. If this were to hold true, then why would anyone ever pay the money to attend an expensive institution with better programs, professors, facilities, prestige, etc..?
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Because either you have money to piss away or you are caught up in prestige. Again, it depends on what you want to do and what is important. If I wanted to be an Engineer do you think for one minute I would go to Stanford? Not. I have worked with people from MIT, GT, Cambridge etc. Do you think for one minute that at this level one can tell the difference as to where we went to school. Hell no. We respect each other, we work together and none is more intelligent than the other.

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I am a Chemical Engineer. In our Plant Design course of our senior year we were given a problem to take an existing chemical plant (on paper) which was loosing money and design in techniques and additional equipment in order to make the plant more efficient and make money (we had to do the economics also). One critical piece of equipment was a distillation column. The professor gave us a box of cards (fortran program-we had no pc's) and he said you can use this for the distillation.
We had 15 days to complete. I tried this fortran program for 2 days and continued to get non convergence on the output. I pulled my hair out and decided to give up on the program and do all by hand. We had 30 people in the class. I got the only A. I went to talk to the professor and he asked me how did I get the program to work. I said that I did not, I shite canned it. He laughed and said that it never would have worked and that I was the only one to shite can it. He told me that he felt very good that he was at least graduating one person who could think outside of academics.
The objective was to fix the plant so that it could make money, not to make the computer program work. I thought after, who taught me this concept of concentrating on the real problem? My grandfather who could not really measure up with a resume or a GPA.
Your university will not do this for you. No matter which one. Don't get so hung up on what university is better. It's all a bunch of toilet paper. It's up to you.

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Good example, but this is only one example in a field where the place you get a degree really doesn't matter all that much--engineering in the south is one of the strongest majors you can have.

What about the business major that wants to go work for the hedge fund or go into investment banking?

The Ivys have the opportunity the LSU grads do not (there could be an extremely rare case, but every school could make this claim). Statistics would hold that you need to be at an Ivy to have the opportunity.

I do agree with your example about being able to critically think in a real life situation, not only in a textbook.

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Again, it depends on what you want to do and what is important.

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This is the critical answer. Sometimes prestige does matter, whether we like it or not.

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GT for undergrad since it is probably affordable

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Not any more affordable than any other private school in the country. You are looking at ~$40,000 a year to go there.