re: LSU CATS hold—How strict are they with 2 in a row? My son…

Math 1550 is freshman calculus that AP students already took in high school.

He's a business major that doesn't want to take basic econ/accounting/finance classes....

Stop wasting your money on advanced daycare.
He should figure out what he wants to do and you should only help with paying for CC or trade school.

This didn't happen out of the blue. He parties too much or just doesn't go to class and is lazy.

He doesn't want to get the business degree you picked for him.

I only read half a page down so this might copy what others have said since then. Classes have started, if he says he's still trying to schedule classes he might not be in school at all. To the rest....

LSU doesn't care if you graduate in 4 years or 8 years as long as you pay and maintain a minimum grade point average. If he is on hold that means he needed to take another class (pre-request)(or he took it without a passing grade) prior to having the class he wanted. If your son is just now taking Business Calc and Econ 2010 he has a few years to go as these are typically Freshmen/Sophomore Business classes. They will only kick him out if he is failing. Seems you might need to have more of a heart to heart with him about his grades and his goals in life.

Good Luck.

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LSU doesn't care if you graduate in 4 years or 8 years as long as you pay and maintain a minimum grade point average. If he is on hold that means he needed to take another class (pre-request)(or he took it without a passing grade) prior to having the class he wanted. If your son is just now taking Business Calc and Econ 2010 he has a few years to go as these are typically Freshmen/Sophomore Business classes. They will only kick him out if he is failing. Seems you might need to have more of a heart to heart with him about his grades and his goals in life.

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I’d suggest your son print his degree audit and you can help him find the path to graduation. It’s fairly simple to read. Plus you’ll know he isn’t being fully truthful regarding his current status if he refuses to share it with you

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Good to see a scheduling thread around here. Feels like we’re back in 2010. We don’t have college students anymore.

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Yeah they have so many options now on social media. Us old farts just us those apps to look at hot chicks. I figured that's what they want anyway right? then come back here to report our findings

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I never understood how this could be an issue. It’s soooooo easy to figure out what classes you need to graduate.

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100%

When they forced me (as a senior) to see a counselor for the first time she was like "looks like you don't need my help you're on track" and I was like "yeah I'm not a total idiot" in my head. This was approximately 2004 so I'm sure it's 100x easier to understand today. We just had that big book with all the classes and reqs.

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Imagine getting taken aside for a serious conversation with your dad and he leads off with "son, I've been talking to some people from Tigerdroppings.com...'

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I mean at least most of us graduated without any issues like that kid

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I mean at least most of us graduated without any issues like that kid

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In fairness, LSU is not beyond frickery.

Last week they canceled one of my son's classes that's a requirement for his minor and is only offered in the Spring.

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In fairness, LSU is not beyond frickery.

Last week they canceled one of my son's classes that's a requirement for his minor and is only offered in the Spring.

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But that's a specific issue clearly stated in like 12 words.

The dad wouldn't need help from the board explaining stuff to him if the issue was that clear.

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In fairness, LSU is not beyond frickery.
Last week they canceled one of my son's classes that's a requirement for his minor and is only offered in the Spring.

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LSU let me substitute another class, being offered, for a required one. 3 or 4 thousand level physics, these things aren’t set in stone. I actually told the professor to go frick himself then walked over to the associate Dean of the college of BS, who taught me a year of E&M, and told him what just went down. He allowed to substitute a class the next semester for the only that a-hole Chinese guy taught…it was fully required and he had everyone by the balls. Luckily I told him to GFH in his office where no one else was listening/watching…because that was the first question the Dean asked.