re: LSU had over 62,000 applicants this year. Awarded 5,800 degrees this spring.

HBCUs probably get lots of applications.

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What am I missing? Only 5800 graduated? Is that normal? Seems extremely low to me regardless of the number of applicants.

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Not really. 34,500 students in undergrad. 5800 (say each class graduates that number) x 4= 23,200 (over a 4 year span)....and that doesn't take into account those who graduate in summer or in the fall. That 5800 number is just spring commencement

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Bama got 60,000 applicants. UCLA got 100,000 applicants.

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UCLA gets far more than 100,000 applicants. They received 147,000 first year applications and over 30,000 transfer applications.

Yeah I wouldn't look too far into gross application numbers. There has been a similar trend in job applications as well. It's not very hard to have claude apply to 100 places for you, and people are doing the same thing for college applications.

The % of kids who actually choose to go to the school is a better metric.

There's a reason most of the SEC schools still have sky high acceptance rates. If LSU is accepting 3/4 of the 60k kids that apply, do the math on how many get accepted and don't attend.

That's why the more prestigious state schools are forced to reject more kids. The kids would actually attend if accepted

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Is this the last year that the school is not considering ACT/SAT scores for admission?

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I sure hope so

I was one of those degrees but I was ChemE. From college dropout in a much easier degree to military and then graduate now. Definitely didn't myself favors getting deployed halfway through. Now it's time for a civilian job.

I work w/ a bunch of northeast/midwest people. Kids with good scores are getting waitlisted or denied so they're going to school down south.

How many from out of state. I read northeastern kids want to come south for the proper college experience.

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Our workforce and education system is beyond saving. It needs to be blown up.

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If you don’t believe this, go to a secular bookstore and look in the children’s section.

The indoctrination is real and starts real early.

Black and brown and red and yellow caterpillars are good; white ones are evil.

This is a product of both the Education and the English Departments at almost all universities being insanely liberal.

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a decent percentage of degrees will get the person no where

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the value in those garbage degrees is the credentials. It provides the liberal women, both black and white a cushy do nothing paper pushing government job with high pay and great benefits and retirement.