re: F. Kings “Holistic Admissions” policy failing badly

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It’s completely unfair to the students who got admitted. They may have succeeded at other universities.

Admitting them to LSU does them no favors.

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Honestly, if you can’t survive freshman year at LSU, you shouldn’t be in college. With very few exceptions, freshmen year is bullshite intro classes and electives.

If they can’t survive the first year they’d be absolutely slaughtered by core classes.

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Next will be a move to Holistic Grading. Problem solved!

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i was coming to post this

the Ivy League schools who started these policies fixed the issue by creating insane grade inflation where everyone passes with above a 3.3 or something

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That is essentially all public schools, at a minimum.

Our society goes out of its way to cater to the lower common denominator at the expense of the gifted.

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been arguing this for years

but by college it's not a big deal. if you want to be separate from the masses, it's not difficult

and if you want to slum it, you can always take an elective psychology or sociology class

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Because the vote of a genius is exactly as valuable as the vote of an idiot.

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Pure gold. I tell my wife this exact same thing about social media. No one has to qualify themselves on a subject before spewing anything that pops in their mind. Soon after one idiot posts something and another gullible idiot latches on, it exponentially grows into a movement, and then it has to be answered and refuted by people with factual knowledge on the subject and voila the entire community is inundated with the subject from media outlets. All because someone’s stupid cousin that normally gets ignored at thanksgiving dinner because the family knows they’re an idiot, posted something on social media and no one questions credibility.

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The grade point averages for those students, which averaged 2.0, lagged behind the 41,580 students who met the minimum standards and ended the first term with an average 2.7 percent..

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That's a massive gap.

But hey. At least they admitted more minorities so we can pat ourselves on the back. I'm sure F King's solution will just be to throw $ at the problem.

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The grade point averages for those students, which averaged 2.0

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If this is the type of shite you can muster in HS, getting a 4 year degree is a total waste of time.

Learn a trade.

A) these numbers are across the entire higher Ed system in LA, not just LSU A&M.

B)

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About two-thirds of those admitted by exception in 2016 returned for classes in 2017, compared to 82 percent of the regular admitted students. And 32 percent of the exception students from 2010 and 2011 graduated in six years while half of the regular admitted students did, according to the report.

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Every bit of this is pathetic. When half your students meeting the minimums aren't graduating in 6 years, the system is an abject failure for tax payers and students/families. The only people benefitting are university admins and employees.

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Y'all, seriously... that number is MORE than DOUBLE what is usually allowed to LSU by the BoR.

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LSU admitted 577 exception students in 2016 and 2017 combined.

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In the controversy that ensued, LSU President F. King Alexander reported that the flagship campus in Baton Rouge had admitted almost twice as many exception students as allowed by the Regents. In setting the criteria in 2001.

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Saban took over as LSU head coach in 2000. Since then, the school has enjoyed unprecedented success in football. Wonder if this policy change had anything to do with that?

Tulane BBall fans have always said that if they could recruit the local High School they could compete nationally but the pesky academic standards get in the way.