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Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:36 pm to OKTGR580
I go up there all time, I have 2 relatives that go there. It’s exactly like LSU you walk 5 minutes in the wrong direction you are in a ghetto that’s just as bad as highland road. The city overall is super ghetto but when you go to visit you don’t see it. Just like LSU, all my bama friends love Baton Rouge and don’t think it’s ghetto at all but think bama is ghetto. You just don’t see it when you visit for just football
Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:39 pm to al_cajun
There is a ghetto not far from Alabama’s campus.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:52 pm to al_cajun
Which direction? I was went around town a good bit and didn’t see any ghettos
Posted on 7/12/18 at 7:58 pm to jbgleason
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24,300 applications for the incoming freshman class. LSU offered admission to more than 18,000 students.
That’s a 74% acceptance rate with 18,000 spots. Man, it would really suck to be one of those applicants who didn’t get into LSU.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 8:16 pm to rowbear1922
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So how many people with 4.0+ GPAs and 30+ are attempting to go to LSU?
Actually quite a lot. My daughter had well above a 4.0 with a national merit scholarship (statistically harder than getting into Harvard) and a 35 and she would have seriously considered LSU had they offered her a full ride. She wanted it. They didn’t offer. She got substantial offers from Tulane, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Emory and seven or eight other selective colleges. But getting snubbed by LSU made her decision. Our cost to send her to a highly selective college is only about $5 k more than LSU would have been. Totally worth it.
I went to LSU for two degrees. My issue is not the minimum standards for admission. It’s that they don’t aggressively try to get the best students, the kind of students which make a university academically competitive.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 8:17 pm to jbgleason
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Freshmen requirements for admission into LSU include a 3.0 grade-point average (!!!) and a composite score of 22 on the ACT.
I think this is great. Libs will think it’s racist
Posted on 7/12/18 at 8:23 pm to TBoy
Is she from out of state? Back in the early 2000s, LSU offered me a ton because of National Merit. It’s a terrible decision if they moved away from that.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 8:36 pm to jbgleason
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Freshmen requirements for admission into LSU include a 3.0 grade-point average (!!!)
I'm not sure how I feel about this. I would not have been accepted into LSU under the above standard, and I needed remedial math my first year. I ended up aceing calculus, getting an MBA and have a decent career in commercial banking.
Had I listened to those who said I wasn't college material, I could have ended up a BAW with truck nuts and all.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 8:52 pm to Keys Open Doors
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Is she from out of state?
Born and reared right here in Louisiana, child of a double alumni.
When I was an undergrad my two roommates were from Mississippi and Arkansas. They were both on full scholarship. Maybe they make better offers to out of state.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 8:56 pm to OKTGR580
I think it’s south and if you walk that direction for while and it gets sketchy pretty quick. I have to give bama credit though cause they are at least trying to get rid of them unlike LSU
Posted on 7/12/18 at 9:03 pm to OKTGR580
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They need to attract more out of state kids. Like get kids from all over to come here. It makes LSU better to have students from all walks of life. Let’s get a pipeline from NY/NJ/VA to LSU.
Hell no, man....that is what fricked up West Virginia so badly. Bunch of fricking guidos strutting around and talking shite all of the time.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 9:12 pm to TBoy
That’s so odd. I was in-state and got great offers from LSU, as did my friends who had similar scores.
Florida, Southern Cal, Tulane, South Carolina; and A&M were also generous whereas UT, UGA, and UNC didn’t give anything.
Florida, Southern Cal, Tulane, South Carolina; and A&M were also generous whereas UT, UGA, and UNC didn’t give anything.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:07 pm to TBoy
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national merit scholarship (statistically harder than getting into Harvard
Please explain. There are 8k+ National Merit Scholars each year. Harvard admits maybe 2k per year and denies dozens of NM scholars.
Posted on 7/12/18 at 10:26 pm to tigercross
I think there are 8000 finalists and 2500 scholars. 50 per state, right?
Posted on 7/13/18 at 1:02 am to SlowFlowPro
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4.0+
I always thought this was stupid. LSU knocks it down to a 4.0 scale for everyone, then compares what classes you took.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 1:04 am to jbgleason
The bigger issue is that LSU does not aggressively target the brightest kids in the state.
Same holds for Louisiana Tech.
Those universities target Texas extremely hard...LSU in the Houston area and Tech in the Dallas area.
Greater numbers to work with....
...and Louisiana’s Best high school students go out of state - every year.
Same holds for Louisiana Tech.
Those universities target Texas extremely hard...LSU in the Houston area and Tech in the Dallas area.
Greater numbers to work with....
...and Louisiana’s Best high school students go out of state - every year.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 1:17 am to tigercross
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Please explain. There are 8k+ National Merit Scholars each year. Harvard admits maybe 2k per year and denies dozens of NM scholars.
Because only 1.25% of test takers are national merit scholars. Harvard’s acceptance rate is 5.2% of those who applied. As you note, Harvard turns down many NM scholars, it is also true that many, probably most, of Harvard admits did not achieve a NM scholar status. But on statistics, which is what I mentioned, 1.25% of all high school test takers is a more elite group than Harvard’s 5.2% of the approximately 40,000 who applied.
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Posted on 7/13/18 at 1:44 am to jbgleason
Got a family friend who didn't get into LSU with a 22-ish ACT about 10 years ago. He went to BRCC for two years then easily transferred to LSU. That was an easy first two years of college he said.
Posted on 7/13/18 at 4:35 am to TBoy
bullshite
The pool of people who applied to Harvard self-selected before applying
The pool of people who applied to Harvard self-selected before applying
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